I'll agree with you on that, GUEST, and I think a wise society finds ways to provide employment for all its people (assuming they want it, that is...there are a few who don't, for various reasons)...rather than throwing the unemployed a few wretched crumbs of welfare money only sufficient to allow them to live like a beaten dog.

The fact is, the prevailing system where I live, and in the USA also, WANTS a certain level of unemployment to be maintained at all times. That allows them to better control various things, keep wage levels down, persuade people to put up with lousy, marginal jobs, and keep bureaucrats and cops busy dealing with the human wreckage...else their jobs might be imperilled! (Well fed people do not steal loaves of bread, and they are far less likely to become drug addicts).

Not what I would call a very wise society...

- LH