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2026-08-02 02:17 UTC

@InsurgoFormica@aus.social @DropBear@theblower.au If there's people who want to work but can't find productive work, then that's a misallocation of resources. And there's an argument to be made that we need a total overhaul of our skills, training, and higher education systems. The free market approach we've pursued since the Dawkins Review in the '80s, with student loans from the government, hasn't worked. Yes! The two things are connected! Having skills shortages /and/ unemployment is something that shouldn't happen. Again, that's a misallocation of resources.

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@DropBear@theblower.au 2026-08-02 04:06

@aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au In the 1980s, I worked in Australia's Commonwealth Employment Service (CES). Businesspeople in my regional city still speak wistfully of the days when they could ask the local CES office for people and would be provided - free of charge - with suitable applicants. These days, finding workers is far more costly (and fraught). I came to the conclusion that, with few exceptions, people want to feel that they're contributing to their community. The “Dole Bludger” is mythical. Totalitarian Capitalism does not serve the nation well. Australia is rich enough to afford every resident the necessities of life and opportunities to do something that's meaningful to them. Coordinated: - education; - training; - careers/occupational guidance; - employment/job matching would be invaluable, to both to our economy and society. @InsurgoFormica@aus.social #AusPol #inequality #TotalitarianCapitalism #BringBackTheCES

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