Quote:Rajvik wrote:This assumes those jobs will have you. You got lucky with the right set of circumstances to get another job after you got out of jail, even if it wasn't something you wanted to be doing. There are people who are told all the time "you're overqualified" when they apply for those jobs that were once beneath them. There are people being told all the time "we hired someone else." And those are the ones getting responses. That's the part that Dartz is getting on about, it's not being on welfare, it's not being allowed off of it because of the whole stint of trying any job out there and not getting anything more than rejection, active or passive, slapped into one's face anyway, and then being shoved off into limbo because some bean counter thinks it will be good motivation to take away even that much. And here in the U.S., it's even worse when some of those "beneath" jobs (assuming they don't discount you as overqualified) don't even pay a decent fucking wage to live on. We're not talking "having money for some luxuries", we're talking "I have to decide between trying to pay for the bus or enough groceries to last 3 of the next 7 days" levels of not enough money, even with public assistance.
But his argument is that the time spent on the welfare and not finding "any work" is what is causing the apathy, mine is that the blatant do or die, (ie there is no more help) mentality forces people to accept jobs they wouldn't otherwise accept because they are down to having nothing
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