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Posted by SMAZ on Sun May 15 19:10:24 2011, in response to Re: Why Socialism Doesn't Work, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun May 15 18:41:15 2011. Ah ... in some countries, there were benefits with the only limitation being that after a period of time you were still unemployed, they provided work for you in exchange for them.That's why you register with the unemployment office even if you're not really unemployed. The make-work jobs are based on seniority on the list. If there are 10 positions for some temporary dumb job (like crossing guard or something) they take the 10 qualified people who have been on it the longest. That means that even though a kid has no intention of working at 16, he may want that job at 19. By then he/she will have been on the list for 3 years and will beat the guy who has been on it for 2 1/2 with all other requirements being equal. the kicker is that if the job is in fact temporary, part-time or under-employment, the guy still statistically counts as unemployed. The jobless rate by the official US standard in places like France and Germany is probably less than 5%. |
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