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Green Man |
Wyot wrote:
[quote]Honey wrote:
[quote]Wyot wrote:
Green Man wrote:
I don't think unemployment and poverty is a "behaviour" that needs addressing.
Nobody would willingly choose it.
Unemployment and poverty aren't the same thing though Honey.
I agree no one would choose poverty, but some people do choose to be unemployed rather than do work they believe is beneath them, or not well paid enough. Some people are unemployed, of course, for reasons more beyond their control.
Behaviours are incentivised all the time and it works. Why do you think advertising agencies can exist or the Gov blow billions of our money on Covid behavioural propaganda?
Also Wyot, people seem to forget you need to start at the bottom. If you want to be your own boss at a young age - then choose a job being a Youtuber.
James Rolfe is a tremendous Youtuber but has worked very hard to get where he is today nearly he has been doing the AVGN since 2004. |
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Wyot |
Honey wrote:
[quote]Wyot wrote:
[quote]Green Man wrote:
I don't think unemployment and poverty is a "behaviour" that needs addressing.
Nobody would willingly choose it.
Unemployment and poverty aren't the same thing though Honey.
I agree no one would choose poverty, but some people do choose to be unemployed rather than do work they believe is beneath them, or not well paid enough. Some people are unemployed, of course, for reasons more beyond their control.
Behaviours are incentivised all the time and it works. Why do you think advertising agencies can exist or the Gov blow billions of our money on Covid behavioural propaganda? |
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Green Man |
Honey wrote:
Wyot wrote:
Green Man wrote:
The thing is Wyot, UC will be the next political football. The government will promise they will promise to increase and if do it would go up but by very little just like the state pension.
The government will could easily do what China do, give you very little but will give you more and they will make you be grateful for it, only to slash again.
Interesting article by Brandon Tatum.
tatumreport.com/los-angeles-start-univer...ncome-pilot-program/
Yes interesting GM and to see how these schemes develop. One condition is that you have a dependant child: what an incentive for unemployed females to have a child...and then chances are that child ends up dependant on the state and so it grows.
Will we see - alongside the reduction of the middle classes - an exponential increase in a state dependant underclass? That will do us all a world of good, won't it.
Meanwhile those who work hard and are thrifty - so far as they can be with their growing tax bills to pay for those not working - will look on and wonder what the bloody point of striving is at all.
Might as well roll that joint and spend the morning on the Playstation...
No one wants to see anyone starve or become homeless but incentivising the wrong behaviours is idiotic.
I don't think unemployment and poverty is a "behaviour" that needs addressing.
Nobody would willingly choose it.
I know it's not ALL but some of the unemployed that went to the bar would do their log books at the bar with a pint, just before signing on. Then ask me or the other staff I was 'recruiting?' then they knew I wasn't but they still log it in their book. If I was recruiting for kitchen staff or anything in general, I would them there are general positions available - they then would say "No thanks."
Whitbred would or still do open days with the DWP (Insider knowledge) they would get tons of applicants turning up, with zero knowledge of hospitality, no interest in the pubs, no experience, poorly dressed and half filled application forms.
If some one applied for 'Cleaner' the applicant was told you all have to clean to the establishment, there wasn't a designated cleaning role. Most times Whitbred did it at a cost cutting measure and sometimes they would actually hire but it would be a small number from the Jobcentre open days.
Job fairs are only really advertisement's events for companies, the stalls with no fancy banners and balloons are the only firms recruiting or the military of course. (Inside knowledge again)
Working in hospitality is hard I have lost count on the number of times I have cleaned up menstrual blood in the ladies bogs. Not forgetting unblocking the bogs with which were jammed with tampons and pads. |
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hedda |
I must admit I've never watched an Alex Belfield video.
You Tube is crammed with social media commentators. So little time to take them all in yet they get views in the millions although it's difficult to know whether viewers are supporters or critics.
Do they make the big money they claim or is it exaggerated?
Difficult to tell as there seems to be a sliding scale of payment via YouTube that ranges from a pittance to quite large sums. One needs to know the criteria to how it all works but there's obviously money to be made as that Gangnam Style brief sensation apparently made $Millions from views.
I'm currently watching some bizarre antics of so-called "first Amendment auditors" in the USA who go to small town Post Offices or police stations and appear to deliberately insult members of the public or cops probably hoping to get a confrontation that their viewers will love.
Smart Phones with cameras have dramatically changed how the media works as publications like the Mail etc beg readers to send in their smart phone videos for cash & often run the most innocuous stuff.
Name Drop #99 : all this was brought home to me a few short years ago when I was invited to the Sydney Gucci store as Kim Kardashian was to visit.
No I wasn't invited inside the store- rather allowed to stand inside the "media pen"..a small barricaded space outside the store..a bit like a pen farmers keep their pigs in 
I hadn't been to an event for ages & had little interest but went anyway. When Kardashian left the store I was almost blinded..not by camera flashes from the assembled paparazzi but there mist have been nearly a 1000 fans waiting for her..and every single one was flashing off their Smart Phone Camera/
## I see many of the anti-vaxers & anti-maskers (worldwide ) also railed against the proliferation of CCTV yet now they have a legitimate chance to disguise themselves with masks they're still not happy ! 
### Three clever young (Asian- what else?) researchers at a US University are now developing a systems to foil CCTV and Smart Phone vision..I'm a tech illiterate but apparently it works on the way a digital camera processes an image.
They're doing this primarily for theaters and such who want to stop attendees from filming & possibly bootlegging or breaching copyright but predict inevitably there will be a hand held device on the market.
They are saying this would not possibly work on old film cameras..only digital. But you can't buy film anywhere these days.  |
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Honey |
Wyot wrote:
Green Man wrote:
The thing is Wyot, UC will be the next political football. The government will promise they will promise to increase and if do it would go up but by very little just like the state pension.
The government will could easily do what China do, give you very little but will give you more and they will make you be grateful for it, only to slash again.
Interesting article by Brandon Tatum.
tatumreport.com/los-angeles-start-univer...ncome-pilot-program/
Yes interesting GM and to see how these schemes develop. One condition is that you have a dependant child: what an incentive for unemployed females to have a child...and then chances are that child ends up dependant on the state and so it grows.
Will we see - alongside the reduction of the middle classes - an exponential increase in a state dependant underclass? That will do us all a world of good, won't it.
Meanwhile those who work hard and are thrifty - so far as they can be with their growing tax bills to pay for those not working - will look on and wonder what the bloody point of striving is at all.
Might as well roll that joint and spend the morning on the Playstation...
No one wants to see anyone starve or become homeless but incentivising the wrong behaviours is idiotic.
I don't think unemployment and poverty is a "behaviour" that needs addressing.
Nobody would willingly choose it. |
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