My mate spent a year on the dole living rent free at his parents learning how to play the drums.
He's now a highly paid insurance PM consultant.
I have a few other stories like this too, a few people I knew mucked around on the dole for a year, deliberately failing interviews, and decades later are now happy, successful, people.
You shouldn't experiment on long term unemployed as they are the abnormal cases, most people get back to work within 3 months if helped.
There's a simple thought experiment, if every month you get 100 unemployed people and 90 get a job but 10 are bad and don't, within a year you might look at the system and say 'look, it doesn't work, 120 people are bad and don't get a job, and only 90 get a job', where in reality 1080 got a job and 120 didn't.
Agree with your point on focusing on that particular sample. But I also heard and seen stories of people who take long (2-3y) career breaks and struggle to get back in, or do at a significant loss of seniority. It’s not so much an unemployment problem. They ultimately find a job. Rather a “damaged career path” kind of problem.
I don’t see how that’s relevant. We’re talking about long term subsidies and the often prevailing hope that this would enable new vocations and filling of underpayed but highly socially valuable functions (like family care etc)
I also happen to know many people through world of warcraft who live on their parents money, have no urge to win their own, simply live on little and have been playing for years now. They are not picking up new skills or doing something social.
I rather hope that someday money will be enough of a problem to motivate them to deal with their issues or just do something with their life, than keep things the same and hope for a change.
He's now a highly paid insurance PM consultant.
I have a few other stories like this too, a few people I knew mucked around on the dole for a year, deliberately failing interviews, and decades later are now happy, successful, people.
You shouldn't experiment on long term unemployed as they are the abnormal cases, most people get back to work within 3 months if helped.
There's a simple thought experiment, if every month you get 100 unemployed people and 90 get a job but 10 are bad and don't, within a year you might look at the system and say 'look, it doesn't work, 120 people are bad and don't get a job, and only 90 get a job', where in reality 1080 got a job and 120 didn't.