Unemployment is essential. To be frank, for the economy to be liquid and able to adapt quickly to macro markets, each country needs a large enough pool of “potential workforce” to fulfil new opportunities. After all, they cost nothing to keep out of work compared to the spend on their rich land-lords who get twice as much benefit from their unemployment than the actual unemployed person.
Welfare policies that force unemployed young people to carry out regular voluntary work are unlikely to improve their mental health and wellbeing, new research says.
Bad idea. It would make genuine council workers feel devalued. We owe a lot to street cleaners and others, it would be horrid to make them feel their job was some sort of punishment. No?
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Unemployment is essential. To be frank, for the economy to be liquid and able to adapt quickly to macro markets, each country needs a large enough pool of “potential workforce” to fulfil new opportunities. After all, they cost nothing to keep out of work compared to the spend on their rich land-lords who get twice as much benefit from their unemployment than the actual unemployed person.
Bad for their mental health, the economy and also very bad for the already overburdened councils. Would be a nice idea if it worked though.
Bad idea. It would make genuine council workers feel devalued. We owe a lot to street cleaners and others, it would be horrid to make them feel their job was some sort of punishment. No?