09-05-2023, 02:45 AM
(09-02-2023, 06:15 PM)Millhouse Wrote: It does seem there has been an increase in laziness in this country for quite some time now. It's like the millions of able bodied people out there aren't working when there are plenty of jobs to be worked. And a lot of these jobs are the ones that typically required 'manly men' to work them. Again, I am just talking here, no data to support but a few others out there have talked about this same thing like Mike Rowe who did the show Dirty Jobs.
Even if we had universal healthcare, we need to address the above issue as well imo because doctors can only do so much for overweight lazy people with heart disease.
It does sound so easy to say there are millions of jobs so get off your lazy butt and go get one…but hold on it’s far more complicated than that.
Those “millions” of so-called lazy people include full time students, people who are temporarily or permanently disabled, people too old to handle those “manly men” jobs, people unable to move or obtain transportation to where those jobs are located, full time caregivers to children or elderly parents, people who lack the training, experience, or licensures to obtain those jobs (yes, even for those manly men jobs), past criminal conviction, lack of a stable address and phone number, lack of ability to read or speak English. A job as a laborer at Rumpke Waste Company (a garbage man) lists a requirement to be able to read and communicate in English.
For millions of people these are very real barriers, not laziness, to any type of employment let alone hard physical labor. Figure out a way in a larger scale to remove some of these barriers and more people may enter the workforce p.
Find solutions for availability of 24 hour a day affordable childcare or elder care. One cannot work if the job is at hours where childcare isn’t available. And why work if your entire paycheck goes to pay someone else to take care of your kids?
Affordable obtainable healthcare could put people back into the workforce by allowing them to get treatment and medications for the medical conditions that prevent them from working.
Companies don’t want to train people anymore. Paying for training and licensing is out of reach for many people
Accessible financially and logistically English as a 2nd language classes.
There are solutions but they require a societal and governmental commitment and as a country we’re not there yet.
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