Private services are not the same.
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TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoyou can do this own your own without the government. there are plenty of places like temp agencies that do this already.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
eah@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
but you’d have to actually… look it up and leave your house to do any of this.
That’s the problem. The sort of person we’re talking about isn’t going to do this. What’s needed is an army of people incessantly knocking on doors offering to help.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
they aren’t going to open the door either man.
you can’t help people who don’t want to help themselves.
though on lemmy people think a political revolution is going to like… magically fix people like this… but the only person who will is themselves.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Which government are you talking about there’s more than one you know.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
the illuminati
TootTootComingThru@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
because it works perfectly fine if you’re not a helpless moron, that’s why.
TootTootComingThru@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah you need a hug.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
feelings aren’t actions man. you can sit around feeling your feelings all day, I’ll be taking action and taking charge of my life.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Fine, I’ll bite the bait.
Counter-point: lots of people are helpless morons at some point in their life. I certainly was. I was lucky enough to have family and friends and skills that were in demand at the time. Others are less fortunate. Fuck’em, I got mine, I guess?
Temp agencies are not there to help you, not even there to make the economy better or society fairer. They are there to fill temporary positions for as little money as possible, period. Sometimes, their and your interests overlap partly. Plus, they help avoid hiring people long-term. Fear of joblessness every few months is a great motivation to work more for less. I’ve seen it plenty of times, and while there are degrees of hell, all of them suck.
Me too. I was on welfare for half a year and not having to worry about my immediate survival gave me the time I needed to hunt for a half-decent job and convince myself to go to college. Now, a decade later, I have an engineering master degree and get to work on some cool stuff. Without government support, I’d probably have jumped at the first shitty job I got and would be stuck there. What’s your life experience? Pulled yourself up by your bootstraps while walking uphill both ways?
As someone from a not-yet-a-total-shithole country, those things exist over here, and while they are as bad at their job as one expects, at least they are there. A cynic public officer half-heartedly trying to get you to become a tax-paying citizen is leagues better than nothing. It’s not a day dream when it clearly exists outside of dystopian ex-first-world countries like the US. Everyone benefits if people get off the street and/or their couch and do something “useful”. I’m happily paying taxes that support welfare, education and coaching, and I’d much prefer it, both from an ethical and an economical point of view, if the government started properly collecting taxes from billionaires and big companies than go after that mystical welfare freeloader.