Modulous brings up a lingering issue I have been holding in the back of my mind when he states:
This of course will only work if you are in fact a decent hard working person.
But what if you are NOT? What if you are AVERAGE? Why can't people who are willing to work, but have no exceptional talent - why should they ALL be swept aside for the Dollar/Pound/Euro/Yen/etc. capitalistic crucible of extracting to most efficient business result? Civilized people should be BETTER than that.
I go to the grocery store and there is a stand of old bread and other stuff - it says "Not the best, but still good." I get some of it, sometimes. It's cheap, but it's still good food.
There are some 7 billion people on this rock and, say, only some 1000 of them are Top Notch. Clearly we need to change the perception that only the best is good enough. To recant a recent meme in the current news,
we're not special.
"Mediocre" means the "Middle". We can get by with the Mediocre! We need to welcome in the Mediocre. If we don't, civilization will never be close to functional. Even mediocre people are great compared to your tripanosome.
But even more, "substandard" can be okay to hire. If you are LESS than AVERAGE, but still willing to work - hey, you should still be able to get work. Even Arlo Guthrie's
Last Guy * has a right to live out a decent life with a decent fitting job, if he should want that. And if the private sector can't do it, then that's where the government should step in and do it - there's lots of infrastructure jobs the government needs to get done every year - they are never done painting a bridge, for example. Is this better than welfare, no?
Most of the chronically Unemployed are victims of a mindset in management that they can only win the capitalist game if they hold out for the best young exuberant bucks they can get. In fact there have been internal memos exposed that specifically direct the HR department of the company to not hire
any unemployed people, only hire people jumping from another company. This is BASSACKWARDS!!! Traitors shouldn't be rewarded. Clearly the business schools, led most nefariously by the Harvard Business School, are much at fault here and should be destroyed and a completely different course of education replace them all. The mindset they have been teaching to the world's young men & women is morally bankrupt rubbish at best.
Modulous nails it on the head when he says:
It depends on what an employer considers employable.
I am currently deep in the throes of my lifetime's 3rd "chronically unemployed state" (greater than 4 years between jobs), but I still have much to give to the workforce. I would happily take a mediocre job. But now I am too old and my resume (CV) is too shot full of holes.
It would be nice to think that the USA or the UK or any reasonably advanced industrialized country could provide decent liveable work for anybody who needs it. But I guess the profiteers won't see it that way - they only see it as (somehow) less profit for them, less personal prestige points pocketed that would lead to their own career advancement.
Shouldn't anybody have a right to work and get a liveable wage, regardless of how mediocre they are? No matter how many holes their resume has? Maybe I'd be better off committing a felony, serving time and getting out into a fast-track work program from a half-way house. Or emigrate to Mexico, change citizenship and sneak back in undocumented. Or run for congress.
I guess I'll never be in any company's HR Department because I would screen the qualified resumes based on who
needs the job the most. Similarly I could never be a Manager, because I could never have the guts to fire anybody.
* from the rap before
The Pause Of Mr. Clause, on the 2nd album
- xongsmith, 5.7d