Unemployment
By telmesh
@telmesh (1793)
September 18, 2011 11:50pm CST
With so many countries creating and or causing unemployment what is the alternative. If the world does need so many people employed what are the unemployed supposed to do to feed there families. People with jobs say to those without to get yourself a job, not really a fair comment when there very few jobs available that could support a family. In the UK where welfare payments are being much harder to obtain and even they will not maintain a family.
7 responses
@lampar (7584)
• United States
19 Sep 11
Unemployment is rising rapidly among developed nations, the governmen in those countries had failed to take care of their own economy and continue to adopt a fail national policy had resulted in rising unemployment rate inside the country. Until the elected officials and bureaucrats are changing course and equip themselves with the knowledge on how an economically vibrant market place can be reached inside a nation, chances are many people will continue to be out of job for a foreseeable future in the western society, these western officials need to learn some lessons from few of the rising economic powerhouses like China or India to propel their domestic economies back to grow again before unemployment rate can come down, it will means end their war game and focus on building their economies bases and international trade expansion with different nations.
@lampar (7584)
• United States
19 Sep 11
Hi, my friend! I can concur with you that those who make million or several hundred thousand $$ annually can go backward first but not every one should accept less for doing more. Most of the minimum wage earners are doing more nowsaday and can't really do away with lesser pay, this situation is especially prevalent in developed nations where the high income group and elected officials are receiving outrageous salary and perk that contributed to an inbalance and unsustainable economies growth.
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@telmesh (1793)
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19 Sep 11
Hi friend nice to see your response. The only way forward as I see it is to go backwards first. That means that the workforce accept less for doing more. Then the workforce must decide if it's worth doing at all, then if it's not worth doing where do we go from here.
@uath13 (8192)
• United States
19 Sep 11
As I stated in one of my discussions the main reason for the vast unemployment is the surplus of manpower. There are simply too many people in the world. With the amount of industrialization which increases the output per employee & the population growth there's simply not enough jobs to go around. We've overpopulated both our world & the global economy.
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@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
20 Sep 11
There's also the issue that machines are quickly taking over jobs that people used to do. Large stores and libraries now have self checkout stations. Banks have ATMs that can do most of what a bank teller would do. Toll booth attendants are being replaced with E-Passes that charge the toll without you ever handing change to a person.
So yes, overpopulation is part of it, but the other part is that humans just aren't necessary for as many jobs as in the past.
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@bdugas (3578)
• United States
20 Sep 11
I live in Ohio and there used to be like 5 general motors plants and a chrysler plant and a truck and bus plant here. All are gone, they moved their operations to Mexico and overseas where the taxes are not as high, this put hundreds out of work, plus in Wilmington which is about 15 miles south of us a couple years ago a big plant there closed. People here have lost their homes as there are no jobs, unless you go to fast food places or go to truck driving school, or back to college to learn a new trade. I can tell you that when my daughter has to go to the child support office (which is in same building as welfare) the welfare line is out the door, they are swamped with new people applying for food stamps and money to support their families on. But even it is getting harder to get help, Obama says that anyone making $75,000 a year is iligable for food stamps and medicaid, that is bull, if you making that much you sure dont need welfare. One of the problems here is people living beyond their means, buying houses that they really can't afford and many of them is now in forclosure. But another one of our problems was that those, including my self as I was at one time a gm employee, they never got enough they wanted more and more as to benifits and wages, till they priced themselves out of a job. I don't see it ever getting better around here, now you can look on Craig's List here and there are pages of houses to buy on rent to own, some really nice houses that the bank is just trying to put someone on to keep them from setting empty and to get sometheir money back. Some times it is us that causes the problems we have like buying a 200,000 dollar house when we can only afford a $75,000 dollar one. It is getting to easy for the ones out of work that have kids, especially a few of them, as welfare pays the bills as good as a job does so why go look for one. I used to work at the unemplayment office and was in charge of finding jobs for people you would be amazed at the excuses some can come up with for not going to an inteview.
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@telmesh (1793)
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20 Sep 11
Hi I am in your age group at 63 so we have a lot of past to remember. I regularly send e-mails to my member of parliament, I suppose that would be your congressman (not sure). These would be about stimulating employment or the like, basically anything that concerns me or will affect others, not because it will change anything but just to show that someone is watching.
We used to have an aircraft industry that actually produced a supersonic airliner with the help of the French that you might of heard of Concorde, now parked on the runway at Filton, Bristol. Printing was big in Bristol so was engineering.
Bristol university have developed a transport system for Heathrow airport, that's the only new thing I am aware of.
Mainly all has shrunk including the aircraft,motor and clothing industries.
@matersfish (6306)
• United States
19 Sep 11
Government and business simply do not mix.
Government wants business to operate more like a charity-slash-government entitlement service. Government wants to operate more like a business.
It's really strange. I see this happening in a few places.
I think government is its own worst enemy, crafting a self-fulfilling prophecy when it comes to unemployment. Big government proponents decry business, preach solidarity and increasingly higher wages for less labor, while simultaneously wishing to tax business more and impose exponentially more regulations.
They cite business as the reason many in the world are suffering, then they work to ensure that businesses have no incentive to hire people.
It's all so strange! I honestly don't know if it's by design so government grows larger by default, or if politicians and social advocates are really just clueless about how wealth works.
We're not just dealing with a lack of jobs in a lot of countries. We're dealing with very high fuel prices, very high property prices, very high food prices, very high taxes on multiple items, etc.
Government always takes the easy way out when it comes to "fixing" anything, especially in America. Instead of working at the root causes to drive prices down, they instead increase entitlement spending and impose more business regulations.
I just don't understand it all. And I definitely don't understand people who actually want more government intervention.
They're the cause of the mess. And if they're not, who is?
I suppose some say it's the big corporations. But I've never seen anyone make a solid case for that point that didn't lead right back to government.
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@telmesh (1793)
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20 Sep 11
If you don't understand then there are probably some facts missing. If you have not got all the right information you will not be able to work it out. Be careful of believing what anyone in government says, they are politicians and tend to say what they think you want to hear.
@dheckerz (473)
• Philippines
20 Sep 11
Establish a small capital business, in foods perhaps. I guess this is easier said than done, but we stop whining and complaining to our government because this will not feed our families either. I've seen news with people having rally's and boycott, but the more they are doing it the harder life gets. If you can't get a job, try to venture into business, someone finds its luck in having its own business.
@cowgirl03051979 (918)
• United States
19 Sep 11
well one alternative that comes to mind is to stop creating so many people in the world meaning stop having so many babies the worlds population has grown so much and keeps growning with every generation that there are just too many people and not enough jobs but just trying to think from the top of my head i really dont see any alternative to unemployment which is a very sad thought because since the world does not need so many people employeed there is no way for them to feed their families or even just feed themselves i think it really started going down hill when they started replacing people with machines if they would get rid of the machines that would give alot of people new jobs
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@telmesh (1793)
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19 Sep 11
I follow your point, in Britain when the cotton mill owners and farmers wanted to bring in machinery to make cloth and plough the fields there was a group that went around smashing up the machines. I guess you would have been one of those so clothes and a loaf of bread would be so expensive even if you had a job you would be had pushed to afford either.
@GemmaR (8517)
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19 Sep 11
I could not find a job offline when I was looking for one three years ago, and, because of this, I have chosen to spend my time earning online and I couldn't be happier with the way that things are going now that I have had the chance to get my head around everything that I need to. At the end of the day, not being able to get a job is obviously not a good thing, but you just have to think outside of the box and think about the things that you could do in order to make things better for yourself. I chose that I should work online, and I have found that I am able to earn a lot more than I might have been able to earn in the past.
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@telmesh (1793)
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19 Sep 11
Hi Gemma so glad to hear you found a way around your situation, I hope it does really well for you. Just ask yourself could I see a way of keeping a family on what I earn and see a point at which I could retire if no one else was putting in any cash, because that's where we have to get to. When I say we, I mean the 2.5 million that are officially on the dole at present in Britain.
I am not trying to put down what you've done I think it's tremendous that you've done something for you. If everyone can do something for them then I would be so happy but the truth is there are limits.