<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">There are ways out of poverty. But not all of the ways in are entirely</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">> voluntary. Some people wind up starving and must be dealt with on that</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">> level, before they can be dealt with as rational people who can afford the</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">> time to learn employable skills.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">I wonder if statistics exist which show how many unemployed people with job skills don't have jobs waiting for them. Hard to criticize their poverty if this is the case.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> (As an aside, I think gov employment agencies could find jobs for people but in different areas, which then the potential worker would have to move to. If he refused, he'd lose benefits. It might be possible to help them move and get set up and ensure their employment for a certain period of time. So - move the people where the jobs are.) </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">In any case, you feed people who are hungry no matter what the cause until they can get on their feet. If they can't get on their feet they have to be declared unable to work or lose benefits. Children get fed. Period.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">bill w</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 3:04 PM, BillK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 27 May 2016 at 20:03, Adrian Tymes wrote:<br>
> It is a choice, on the child's part, to be born to parents who fail to<br>
> provide for their children?<br>
><br>
> It is a choice to be unaware of educational opportunities, and to have been<br>
> told all your life that education is somehow a bad thing/only used by the<br>
> enemy who oppresses you and your family?<br>
><br>
> It is a choice to have addictive, health-depleting drugs forced on you<br>
> before you are mentally capable of appreciating the dangers?<br>
><br>
> There are ways out of poverty. But not all of the ways in are entirely<br>
> voluntary. Some people wind up starving and must be dealt with on that<br>
> level, before they can be dealt with as rational people who can afford the<br>
> time to learn employable skills.<br>
><br>
<br>
<br>
</span>In one factory in China Foxconn has just replaced 60,000 workers with robots.<br>
<<a href="http://www.geek.com/news/foxconn-has-replaced-60000-workers-in-one-factory-with-robots-1656337/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.geek.com/news/foxconn-has-replaced-60000-workers-in-one-factory-with-robots-1656337/</a>><br>
<br>
Perhaps the poor could be also replaced with robots? ;)<br>
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BillK<br>
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