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This is seems obvious to anyone who knows someone who has struggled with unemployment.

• qingcharles 2y ago
  This also affects a lot of people who have been locked up in jail or prison.
  • wakawaka28 2y ago
    At least in those cases, you have a clear reason to expect to have a hard time. If you never did anything wrong to anyone and worked hard your whole life, being unemployed through no fault of your own is jarring and upsets a lot of deeply held assumptions about your relationship with society.
    • squigz 2y ago
      > At least in those cases, you have a clear reason to expect to have a hard time. If you never did anything wrong to anyone and worked hard your whole life This sort of assumes everyone who goes to jail deserved it, but there are many people locked up for nonsense like having a gram of weed
      • wakawaka28 2y ago
        Holy tangent Batman! I never said that, and I think your nitpicking insinuates that a majority of people in jail don't belong there. I agree that not everyone in jail deserves to be there, even if they did the thing they were convicted of. But jail space is a scarce resource so I doubt many people in jail are there for such trifles as 1 gram of marijuana. Furthermore, even if someone was in jail over some nothingburger, they would still have more reason to expect to have a hard time with a criminal record and all than someone without a criminal record. This is really my point: If you did nothing wrong yet have difficulties finding a job, it is hard to feel like you have agency in your own life.