I remember during covid I thought one silver lining type thing would be many many more people having to experience the shitty way the Australian government treats unemployed people who need help. Of course they got around this by temporarily changing it, which to me was a stark admission that it was totally inadequate in the first place.
Not only did they temporarily change the payment but they also made it super easy to access, to the extent that many people who were effectively out of work just continued to be paid by their employer automatically as if nothing had happened. Even the genuinely unemployed people who didn’t have a job to go back to never had to deal with Centrelink, job providers or mutual obligations in a normal way. Everything was streamlined and very little was expected of people. No one learned anything from that experience.
Yes exactly it’s extremely frustrating. Everyone just forgot because it was ok for them when they needed help. If the system was actually working properly it wouldn’t require any changes for an event like covid.
Because we make national sport out of kicking the shit out of people doing it rough. You will serve or you will die, citizen
Because everyone on the sole is lazy. Except when we need assistance in which case we’re just a battler needing help, but everyone else is lazy.
I was long term unemployed and the ptsd from what i had to do to survive has made me a wonderful employee. I live in terror of losing my job.
I was absolutely miserable at my previous job but I couldn’t go back to being unemployed so I put up with it (while job hunting, which is just as bloody miserable) until I had a total breakdown one day. Now I’m in a much better position and enjoy what I do, but I still have a mortgage on an apartment looming over the rest of my life and losing my job for any reason would make my 10th story balcony look very tempting. It shouldn’t feel this way.
I’d vote for a ubi in a heartbeat, and lower home prices. I dont think i’ll ever have a mortgage and i don’t get how people do it without job security. I’d be even more terrified. Good luck friend.
I’d vote for a ubi in a heartbeat
With you there.
and lower home prices.
The issue is just not that simple to fix.
There are a lot of things which can be done to start fixing it, but we won’t even do those. Get rid of the capital gains discount and make investment losses only able to be counted against profit from that investment (not other income).
Then you can start looking at supply and liquidity issues.
Love this line:
“For some reason, it released the report on the Friday between Anzac Day and the weekend, so it didn’t get much media coverage.”
Can’t be seen helping poor people. Can’t admit you’re not helping them either.
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