This is just pure evil. Not only this will cause a total breakdown of society (collapse of births - no one will have a baby if they can't have any social net, total socioeconomic isolation of a vast portion of young people - the issue isn't their lack of will to work, but rather lack of will to hire people on reasonable terms - temp/zero hour "contracts", utter lack of will to pay enough for a lot of people to support themselves (i have some friends in Englanf/Wales - some of them have STEM degrees, yet they couldn't work simply because they would spend more money to get there than earn), zero job security
He finally is able to function somewhat on his own becauee he spent a lot of time developing actual skills
People slaving away for 50 pounds a week will just get locked in the system
Old people will be happy to have own personal slaves they can push around
A lot of young people won't even bother (yay, we fixed unemployment!)
Much rant
I just love "fuck the poor"
The "training" will probably be done by one of huge private firms, sucking up all the money that should be spent to help those young people
Alternate view: being out of the workforce makes it difficult to get back into the habits of working. Getting up getting ready, going out and doing something keep you ready for opportunities as opposed to zombie surfing on the Internet all the day.
Also, I understand your viewpoint but your words are overheated - "evil"? Really? The proposal is hardly advocating for the return of the workhouse.
This is just new slave labour, except one had to provide both sustenance and rudimentary housing.
in this case all the funds will most probably be spent on public transportation just to get to "work"
I call it evil, because the policy is not misguided or even dogmatic. Youth unemployment in Europe is staggering. If it wasn't for the desperation of young people it would be even higher. There is growing prevalence of "trash contracts". No health insurance. No retirement fund. no liability to employer. no protection. look up zero hour contracts. The problem isn't with young people.
And then Camoron goes out and basically says: "fuck you". If they got them actual work for minimum wage, I'd call it a bad idea [0].
This is not even wrapped in convincing bs. It's just a shameless exploitation of people actually trying to get out of unemployment. A policy designed to skew the numbers simply by making people not bother registering as unemployed.
It's just abandoning nontrivial portion of society. Evil.
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This is just pure evil. Not only this will cause a total breakdown of society (collapse of births - no one will have a baby if they can't have any social net, total socioeconomic isolation of a vast portion of young people - the issue isn't their lack of will to work, but rather lack of will to hire people on reasonable terms - temp/zero hour "contracts", utter lack of will to pay enough for a lot of people to support themselves (i have some friends in Englanf/Wales - some of them have STEM degrees, yet they couldn't work simply because they would spend more money to get there than earn), zero job security He finally is able to function somewhat on his own becauee he spent a lot of time developing actual skills
People slaving away for 50 pounds a week will just get locked in the system Old people will be happy to have own personal slaves they can push around A lot of young people won't even bother (yay, we fixed unemployment!) Much rant I just love "fuck the poor" The "training" will probably be done by one of huge private firms, sucking up all the money that should be spent to help those young people
Alternate view: being out of the workforce makes it difficult to get back into the habits of working. Getting up getting ready, going out and doing something keep you ready for opportunities as opposed to zombie surfing on the Internet all the day.
Also, I understand your viewpoint but your words are overheated - "evil"? Really? The proposal is hardly advocating for the return of the workhouse.
This is just new slave labour, except one had to provide both sustenance and rudimentary housing. in this case all the funds will most probably be spent on public transportation just to get to "work"
I call it evil, because the policy is not misguided or even dogmatic. Youth unemployment in Europe is staggering. If it wasn't for the desperation of young people it would be even higher. There is growing prevalence of "trash contracts". No health insurance. No retirement fund. no liability to employer. no protection. look up zero hour contracts. The problem isn't with young people. And then Camoron goes out and basically says: "fuck you". If they got them actual work for minimum wage, I'd call it a bad idea [0]. This is not even wrapped in convincing bs. It's just a shameless exploitation of people actually trying to get out of unemployment. A policy designed to skew the numbers simply by making people not bother registering as unemployed. It's just abandoning nontrivial portion of society. Evil.
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