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Two conclusions
I have been thinking about (ie. ranting to myself) about the Danish unemployment system as of late. I'll spare you most of it.
I have come to two conclusions:
1) the entire system is based on a fundamentally flawed philosophy: that the only real reason for unployment is that people are lazy and picky - thus, the correct way (not that they'll ever admit so if asked oughtright, but try looking at what they actually do) to treat unempoyed people is to humiliate, frustrate and blackmail them until they take the job that's of course just dangling in front of them to take - such things as bottlenecks, financiel crises and so on does not exist. I blame a non-reflective approach to the whole Protestant work ethic way of thinking, really...
2) the way the system is currently designed is actually a clever way of providing the public with slave labour - the public as an employer is firing, massively, because human ressources is pretty much the only reason left to cut back on. However, the labour can - shortly after its unfortunate unemployment - be forced to go to work fulltime for the public (admittedly not at the exact same place, but does it really matter what specific hospital a nurse works at?) for unemployment benefits that's roughly equivalent to ½ or 2/3 of the pay the ought to be making, promises of real jobs dangled in front of them which of course never actually materialize, because where would the state get the money, and why should they, as there are always more unemployed people to exploit???
To sum up: I fucking hate being unemployed, and I fucking, fucking, fucking hate our current government. Can't it be november soon?
I have come to two conclusions:
1) the entire system is based on a fundamentally flawed philosophy: that the only real reason for unployment is that people are lazy and picky - thus, the correct way (not that they'll ever admit so if asked oughtright, but try looking at what they actually do) to treat unempoyed people is to humiliate, frustrate and blackmail them until they take the job that's of course just dangling in front of them to take - such things as bottlenecks, financiel crises and so on does not exist. I blame a non-reflective approach to the whole Protestant work ethic way of thinking, really...
2) the way the system is currently designed is actually a clever way of providing the public with slave labour - the public as an employer is firing, massively, because human ressources is pretty much the only reason left to cut back on. However, the labour can - shortly after its unfortunate unemployment - be forced to go to work fulltime for the public (admittedly not at the exact same place, but does it really matter what specific hospital a nurse works at?) for unemployment benefits that's roughly equivalent to ½ or 2/3 of the pay the ought to be making, promises of real jobs dangled in front of them which of course never actually materialize, because where would the state get the money, and why should they, as there are always more unemployed people to exploit???
To sum up: I fucking hate being unemployed, and I fucking, fucking, fucking hate our current government. Can't it be november soon?
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The sad thing, the ironic thing, is that the Danish flexicurity model has been praised as a thing to envy, a way to ensure that workers aren't broken by being unemployed. They're ruining it.