The opposition says it will attempt to amend the government's measure to raise the Jobseeker rate by $40, and instead lift the threshold before benefits begin to be reduced, saying it would encourage more people into work.
If a 3-5% unemployment is a deliberate policy goal, and the economy will constantly be adjusted to achieve it, then the entire concept of ‘incentive’ is a blatant fucking lie.
If you’re going to deliberately and knowingly condemn a hundred thousand people to unemployment and god knows how many more to underemployment - and that’s not counting dependent family, etc - then you don’t get to stand there and blame them for being your fucking victims.
They aren’t there for some moral failing on their part. They aren’t there because there’s just not enough to go round. They aren’t there because they’re lazy and feckless.
They’re there because you wanted to ensure a ready supply of scab labour to step in any time the lowest-rung peasants above them dares to ask for a payrise.
Not that that isn’t fucking evil bastardry in and of itself, because of course it is. But to then turn around and leave them starving on the fucking streets and glibly moralise about how they should just want it more…
I’m thinking a whole bunch of things I am not allowed to say here.
If a 3-5% unemployment is a deliberate policy goal, and the economy will constantly be adjusted to achieve it, then the entire concept of ‘incentive’ is a blatant fucking lie.
If you’re going to deliberately and knowingly condemn a hundred thousand people to unemployment and god knows how many more to underemployment - and that’s not counting dependent family, etc - then you don’t get to stand there and blame them for being your fucking victims.
They aren’t there for some moral failing on their part. They aren’t there because there’s just not enough to go round. They aren’t there because they’re lazy and feckless.
They’re there because you wanted to ensure a ready supply of scab labour to step in any time the lowest-rung peasants above them dares to ask for a payrise.
Not that that isn’t fucking evil bastardry in and of itself, because of course it is. But to then turn around and leave them starving on the fucking streets and glibly moralise about how they should just want it more…
I’m thinking a whole bunch of things I am not allowed to say here.
I wish Lemmy had awards, sort of like awards that replenish after a while. I’d award this rant it is beautiful.