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Unemployment benefits just aren't like basic income. At all. 1. They're barely enough to feed yourself and pay for rent, if even. Nothing more. 2. The authori
by Ao7bei3s 11y ago
Unemployment benefits just aren't like basic income. At all.
1. They're barely enough to feed yourself and pay for rent, if even. Nothing more.
2. The authorities keep you busy filing paperwork and sending applications for awful jobs. Don't meet your quota, miss a deadline, don't make a meeting, or refuse any job (even if quite beneath your qualification), and your benefits are cut.
3. If you're unemployed, long-term planning is impossible.
4. Higher education is not available. Job training may or may not be.
I suspect that most unemployed are by and large less educated -- so what do you expect?
Basic income would allow education. And that may, as you put it, carry us into a new age.
Disclaimer: I only know about the situation in Germany, and only from (educated, but not IT) acquaintances, not personal experience.
- WalterSear 11y agoIt's worse in the US. It's essentially beer money.
- r00fus 11y agoCite?
- WalterSear 11y agoBeen on unemployment.
- jpindar 11y agoYou must drink a lot of beer. The maximum unemployment in Massachusetts, for instance, is over $700 a week. Even in New Hampshire it's over $400.
- paulddraper 11y agoIf the only jobs you can get are ones "quite beneath your qualification", you might rethink the reality of those career qualifications.