I can understand why in undeveloped ones, but doesn’t unemployment in a developed country mean “everything is covered we literally can’t find a job for you.”?
Shouldn’t a developed country that indeed can’t find jobs for its citizen also have the productivity to feed even the unemployed? is the problem just countries not having a system like universal basic income or is there something else going on here?
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>Why unemployment in developed countries is an issue?
people are getting paid for doing nothing. at the individual level there’s no perception at all, however, on macro level, you’ll see this trend: paying people for doing nothing will increase the population of people that do nothing and abuse those money.
>everything is covered we literally can’t find a job for you.
not really, because the situation is more complex than that; the population always changes, old people retire each year, more youngster enter the work force every year. There’s a lot of immigrants pouring in from everywhere that take jobs that the youngsters of the developed world don’t want to do. Currently, the population is decreasing (simply because of less births), so if you would stop the immigration there would be shortage in workers, the opposite of everything being covered. There’s also the option of socialist regimes to create joke/fake/meme jobs to keep people employed, ie administrative jobs grew in number exponentially since the 90s. Another note to keep in mind: the economic structure of capitalist countries is very similar to a Ponzy scheme; it requires the population of the country to be bigger each year. That’s the reason why US and EU have almost uncontrolled numbers of people pouring in while in the same time there’s a growing shortage of workers.
>countries not having a system like universal basic income
well, that’s the problem. giving money to people expecting nothing in return is not a good idea. If you pay them to stay home they will stay home. It’s the same effect that happens in California with the homeless people right now. It is intuitive to believe that giving them money and help will make their lives better, but the exact opposite effects are being shown. Their numbers are growing each year and they become bolder and brazer increasing in crime and drug addiction. These things must be very carefully balanced and each case must be reviewed, test for drugs, follow-up on the progress, limited help etc.
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