aquascoot wrote on Oct 13
th, 2024 at 1:27pm:
institutional welfare dependancy?
Yes:
https://pavlina-tcherneva.net/the-case-for-a-job-guarantee/ One of the most enduring ideas in economics is that unemployment is both unavoidable and necessary for the smooth functioning of the economy. This assumption has provided cover for the devastating social and economic costs of job insecurity. It is also false. Quote:it should have been pulled out by its tap root before it was ever allowed to blossom.
By whom? Government admionsters the 'welfare' system aka the poverty industry - full of grifters (as you say) of all kinds including in the bureaucracy.
Quote:and who benefits from institutional welfare dependancy?
No-one, neither the government who must fund the 'correctional' services, and poor health outcomes, nor the receivers of welfare themselves who adapt to subsistence poverty level existance.
Quote:the middle management civil servants and grifters who are, in essence, dependant on ever increasing "herds" of welfare recipients to advance their careers and pay their own mortgage.
Exactly, as noted above......occasionally you get it right!
Quote:the solution will have to come from the people who understand that we were put on this earth to contribute and to create and to eradicate suffering
(not to take, and suck on the titty of an authority figure) and not to use the suffering of others as an opportunity to virtue signal.
Now you are back to the usual - getting it wrong:
"One of the most enduring ideas in economics is that unemployment is both unavoidable and necessary for the smooth functioning of the economy. People want to contribute, but if flat-earth economists say inflation needs to be controlled by unemployment....we have a problem.
Quote:in practical terms,
...waits for the argument with bated breath...
Quote: this means that the same sort of people who volunteer for the rural fire brigade or for clean up australia or for the surf life savers or for mens sheds or for pony clubs , need to move into areas of poverty and provide real help.
Ah - volunteers must 'save the economy', while Bullock is trying to increase unemployment among working people (as noted in the link).
Quote:play sport with kids
teach them to work on cars or fix mowers
teach them to put up fences and grow food
community gardens
teach them emotional control in the boxing ring
take them to the gym, take them fishing
get them interested in little on line marketing ventures
lend them 1000 bucks to start a small business
inspire and encourage by putting your awesome positive attitude on display.
Ah - private sector volunteers to save the economy, presumably wealthy enough to donate their time and money...got it.
Rolls off the tongue so easily; but who looks after the kids when the fishing outings cease, and the business venture fails (as most small businesses do)?
Quote:i was talking to a mum of a kid with fairly severe autism and a big NDIS package (about 150,000 pa).
NDIS should be government run, with employees of the NDIS delivering services as required, not delivered by private operators gaming the system.
Quote:mum is going to bring the kid to the local pony club where he can get some real help, for free, from noble conservatives
She should have done that already, she didn't need the NDIS.
Quote:the virtue signalling grifters have failed this child and 10's of 1000's like him, because they would never get off their fat asses and actually do something constructive
Your errors exposed above: the dysfunctional macroeconomy - beyond the reach of individuals who must earn a living - is as much a problem as poor attitudes of some individuals.