I read that china has nearly 2 million students doing chinese medicine and that the course takes 8 years.
even china doesn't have enough jobs to go around and uses such 'measures' to control "civil unrest'
yes, people do need to be occupied (one of the reasons I am a massive fan of work for the dole).
earning or learning..makes sense to me.
but there are still plenty of productive things to be done (
I don't subscribe to this "there aren't enough jobs to go round
).
the national parks near me are getting completely over run with lantana, feral pigs and goats....
the kids hanging out at the mall, getting bored and onto a bit of speed and then into crime could do the nation a great service by being bused to these national parks with machetes and round up.
they'd get fit, make new friends, and can have a swim in a world heritage standard waterfall.
i'd jump at the chance if I was hanging out in some hot drab housing commission squat 7 days a week.
win/win
Then it's about time you did, because it's an unavoidable fact.
Not for anyone who can count, it isn't.
And do dump the old discredited, disproven stereotyping.