In every society, there is around 5% of people whom I consider unemployable.
Some suffer from mental illness, some addiction, while others are just lazy and/or useless. Unfortunately, I have to deal with a few of these types, and on both sides of the equation - when they apply for jobs, and again when they're fired for being unemployable.
Many people manage to control their mental illness sufficiently to be able to work, but there are also many who can or do not.
Some people seem to just be allergic to work. They get a job and last two or three days before it all gets too hard, or they prove how completely worthless they are and get fired.
What do we do with these people?
Right now, we try to force them to work, by cutting their benefits if they don't apply for an take on a job.
While that may work for some, for the unemployable, it just creates problems for everyone else. Employers waste time trying to get them working, only to fail because they don't have it in them. The enormous expenditure by government, statutory and voluntary agencies on these people is being wasted.
To me, it seems the logical answer would be to simply offer these people a guaranteed lifetime benefit. If they don't want to work, they collect unemployment forever.
I don't believe this would increase unemployment, as most people want to work and improve their lives, and the dole would be set lower than the minimum wage.
The time and money savings achieved by removing huge numbers of administrative and counselling staff would easily give the plan a net financial benefit to the government instituting the idea.
Why do we focus so much on making people work when they just don't want to?
Some suffer from mental illness, some addiction, while others are just lazy and/or useless. Unfortunately, I have to deal with a few of these types, and on both sides of the equation - when they apply for jobs, and again when they're fired for being unemployable.
Many people manage to control their mental illness sufficiently to be able to work, but there are also many who can or do not.
Some people seem to just be allergic to work. They get a job and last two or three days before it all gets too hard, or they prove how completely worthless they are and get fired.
What do we do with these people?
Right now, we try to force them to work, by cutting their benefits if they don't apply for an take on a job.
While that may work for some, for the unemployable, it just creates problems for everyone else. Employers waste time trying to get them working, only to fail because they don't have it in them. The enormous expenditure by government, statutory and voluntary agencies on these people is being wasted.
To me, it seems the logical answer would be to simply offer these people a guaranteed lifetime benefit. If they don't want to work, they collect unemployment forever.
I don't believe this would increase unemployment, as most people want to work and improve their lives, and the dole would be set lower than the minimum wage.
The time and money savings achieved by removing huge numbers of administrative and counselling staff would easily give the plan a net financial benefit to the government instituting the idea.
Why do we focus so much on making people work when they just don't want to?
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