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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGreece's response to high unemployment: Slavery, and banishment.
The measure includes unpaid work for the young and unemployed up to 24 years old, so that companies would have a strong motive to hire young employees. Practically, what is proposed is the abolition of the basic salary for a year.
At the same time the export of young unemployed persons was also proposed to other countries abroad, as Greek businesses do not appear able to hire new personnel.
exporting the poor and unemployed...what a marvelous idea....
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)El_Johns
(1,805 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)No job, no money? In ya go.
and never get out again unless someone bails you out.
Oh, and they were run by...private contractors. So much per head from the state.
Well, city, actually.
Ironically, kids were put in poor houses, families were separated into adult male and female areas, children male and female areas,
but when a kid turned legal age ( 18? 21?) they were released, sent out into the world with no skills, no money.
revolving door.
El_Johns
(1,805 posts)people should work for free for a year & not even get that.
BTW, my stepfather spent some town at the county workhouse during the Depression as a child. The US had plenty of workhouses & poorfarms too.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)The vagrancy laws kept a lot of folks moving on...in fact, STILL happens down here in the small towns..called "Greyhound therapy".