Thanks for the explanation. I've always wondered if the government could keep a "To do" list of tedious tasks that they can get under/unemployed people to do fo

Thanks for the explanation. I've always wondered if the government could keep a "To do" list of tedious tasks that they can get under/unemployed people to do for some reward. Kind of like Mechanical Turk but with a base amount if the person refuses to compete any tasks. Or for more educated people, doing research for the Government. E.g. a Department of Health could have a ToDo list that includes: "Collate information on Tropical diseases for use by Doctors." A qualified person, such as a biologist, would be given an existing list of diseases and a list of recent research papers. They could simply flag papers that have info not in the Government list. In this way, when the actual Department worker goes to update the Tropical disease file, the references are all ready to go if the worker wants them. Spending 35 hours a week looking for jobs that may not exist seems incredibly foolish.