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Anon doesn't have a plan (sh.itjust.works)
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[+] -13 points 2 months ago* (7 children)

this already exists, it's called temp agency employment. no, the government doesn't run it.

baffles me how little real world experience a lot of you people have. at least every other day on here I see someone spectulate abotu this 'great thing that should exist' and it already does.

also a ton of bigger public libraries offer these types of services/classes for free. including basic computer job skills and such...

but you'd have to actually... look it up and leave your house to do any of this.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    I wish my government had some social safety nets like some other countries do to help out people like this

    HAVE YOU EVEN HEARD OF SHITTY PRIVATE BUSINESSES THAT SORT OF KIND OF DO THAT BUT NOT ACTUALLY? GO OUTSIDE YOU MORON!

    Are you OK and if not would you like a hug?

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  • [–] -4 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    because it works perfectly fine if you're not a helpless moron, that's why.

    lots of people start their careers through temp job training programs and become permanent hires.

    i'm not dumb and niave enough to be lemmy brained to think government programs are inherently flawness and wonderful and private/semi public programs are evil and terrible.

    i have what they call 'real life experience' in these matters. instead of being a keyboard warrior who types in all caps and insults people as if this is in anyway helpful of knowledgeable about the world and how it works.

    but hey man, it's easy to dwell in ignorance and rage at the world than... make use of resources that are readily available to you to improve your life. including the countless free ones on the internet that are both public and private...

    clearly the 'answer' to problems like this is to daydream about a socialist/communist utopia and be angry it doesn't exist and also wish violence upon those who point out to you that it's never going to exist.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Fine, I'll bite the bait.

    because it works perfectly fine if you’re not a helpless moron, that’s why.

    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?

    lots of people start their careers through temp job training programs and become permanent hires.

    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.

    i have what they call ‘real life experience’ in these matters

    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?

    clearly the ‘answer’ to problems like this is to daydream about a socialist/communist utopia and be angry it doesn’t exist and also wish violence upon those who point out to you that it’s never going to exist.

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months 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.

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