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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Even after all this is taken into account skilled work does not provide mass employment thats what unskilled work does.
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How do you propose generating additional unskilled work?
A focus on skilled jobs is necessary to avoid those people who have spent their time and likely some tax payers' money learning those skills taking them elsewhere. These people are more and more mobile and indeed are taking their skills elsewhere more and more.
Focus on ensuring people can avoid underemployment and so keep their higher tax payments flowing to UK coffers not elsewhere, along with welfare state reform to ensure that those who have no interest in skills can't turn their noses up at unskilled work is necessary. Outside of exceptional projects and infrastructure the government cannot generate unskilled work.
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
How do you get people skilled tho?
Usually you learn a skill during work or will need to do some type of training/education course which costs money.
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Training in a number of things is available free of charge or subsidised, there's a big focus on it at the moment.
If people can't be bothered that's their prerogative. It should be absolutely ensured that there is no way for someone to be better off on welfare than working, and to ensure that those who ignore the carrot in terms of training, and refuse work are then treated appropriately - fairly, but harshly.
I'm quite a fan of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemplo...enefits#Canada actually over our existing system.