Just brainstorming here, but I wonder if one could build a market around betting on the success (but never the failure) of the hard-to-employ. Let's say I know a recovering addict who would be a good worker but employers disagree. . .
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This is another example of the Golden Age, which I define as a time in which society does not have shortages of critical goods and services so much as it has a need for new and better systems.
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But government, and society, benefits two or threefold for every person moved out of criminal justice system/public assistance/disability into payroll-tax paying productive citizen.
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That is exactly the idea I have thought of myself.
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I’d get involved in this
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Would this be like having your own personal slave but heavily regulated? Like all the good parts of slavery without needing to make your living from them.
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It's called religion. They've done this for centuries. Get them working, producing, and then paying tithes, or at a minimum, not pulling from donations and standing on their own (still a net benefit). Faith based thrift stores are an example
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Slavery.
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Things to consider: - moral hazard (employer profits? create entire "lost cause" divisions intended to fail) - other perverse incentives (excess labor costs at week 53? they'll be gone at week 52) - personal recommendations already put recommenders' reputations at stake.
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I think it is naive to say the Government wouldn’t be involved. They wreck any real attempt at charity. Like pouring bleach on the food you are trying to give to homeless people.
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There are different phases when growing up....depending on the environment your in.... you are brainwashed thinking whatever raises your interest...thats a point for constructive criticism.....!
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