Loading...Unemployed – Work for the council or local community
Those who are unemployed and not on disability benefit should be put to work for their local council or authority, community work or anything to rehabilitate them back into the world of work. This way they are being paid for the work they do. It is not good for mental health to be paid for doing nothing. Same for prisoners.
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?