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Seriously?? If you invested all your money and owned a business, would you not care about the skills of those you hired?
You can learn a skill while being employed, but you have to be willing to start out with a low wage. You get some low paying hard work job, learn all you can, and show how hard you'll work and in time someone will promote you or hire you for something else.
Would I care if they could do that job yes but I would also care if my employees have enough to live on if not I probably do not need as many employees since I can not afford to pay well. Now a days many employers only care about making as much money as possible with treating and paying their employees as little as possible. We are heading toward being a country where we have extreme wealth and extreme poverty. That is what the Right Wing Nut Jobs want though that kind of society.
Would I care if they could do that job yes but I would also care if my employees have enough to live on if not I probably do not need as many employees since I can not afford to pay well. Now a days many employers only care about making as much money as possible with treating and paying their employees as little as possible. We are heading toward being a country where we have extreme wealth and extreme poverty.
Let me explain how it works.
A company sells a product for $10. People buy x amount of product at that price point. This amount of income lets the employer higher people to create the product. Lets say 5 people can be hired at $10 an hour to make enough product to meet demand at the $10 price point. The employeed makes a decent profit, lets says 6% of sales.
If the employer could pay people more by either, increasing the cost of the product or reducing the profits of the company. The company cannot really take more out profit since it is a pretty small % already, if they raise prices for the product to say $15 then fewer people will buy it, causing demand to decrease. Now at this higher price point with reduced demand now the company can only afford to higher 3 people instead of 5.
And they have universal healthcare, much lower cost of higher education, and a very business-friendly environment. All while being a very diverse nation.
What is Australia doing right that we are doing so wrong?
You'll also have to look at the immigration volume, government assistance programs, etc...
It is a dog eat dog for many of the selfish rich yes but for many other it is not. This is why we have programs like welfare, food stamps, homeless shelters because some people care about someone besides themselves. No everyone can not be anything they set their mind to I could not be a pro football player no hard I tried that is just an excuse to not help anyone.
You sound like a perfect candidate for the charity programs you value so much, just remember as you stand there with your hand out that nothing in life is free, and you are paying for that charity with your self respect.
These are estimates
There are some people who can only work 20 hrs work for whatever reason (school, health, family)
I'm sure the federal govt fudges figures in their favour.
I'm also sure the true figure of unemployment is not 17%
We've lost some manufacturing / auto jobs - so things aren't easy out there, but there are jobs. Whether they're jobs people ideally want, is another story.
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