Stop thinking in terms of what "we" should do with "them" and start thinking that they are autonomous people with their own minds and self-determination, albeit stuck within the overall context of a serf-running state from which they cannot escape [since there is no tradable citizenship in which people own their own share of the state as a property right]. <So what are you proposing that we should do to occupy and find means of support for these low skills workers who are willing to work but find themselves faced with falling wages and benefits as well as dismal numbers of job openings and no light at the end of the tunnel? > It's up to people to occupy themselves how they wish to do, not for me to tell them what they must do. Remove the barriers to hiring them. Get the government off their backs. It's up to them to do things for other people in exchange for means of support.
You seem to think that "jobs" are objects sitting around of which there are a fixed number. If one person has got hold of one of those rare natural objects found at the end of a rainbow, that means nobody else can simultaneously hold that job. <They can never, however, explain whose jobs they'd take > I have got a very long list of personal "jobs" I would like to do, but I am too busy sitting here with a pot of tea just now. I could hire a few dozen people to do those jobs. But not with the stupid rules that government people think are a good idea. Hence the unemployment. 40 years ago, there were any number of jobs, with almost no unemployed. That was not because there were fewer machines. It was because the culture of living on benefits was taking a generation or two to get a head of steam.
So now you know how that the new jobs for the unemployed would not be doing arithmetic and swapping names. Isn't the internet great? Just like that you have learned something. People have their own minds, they are not your property to dispose of, and jobs are not limited. There is an infinite amount of things to be done. Have you ever noticed how there are about 7 billion people now, nearly all of whom are doing something useful, and that's with a fantastically amazing array of machinery and now extra-somatic intelligence to assist. 100 years ago, with hardly any of that industrial revolution and none of the Cyberspace zeitgeist, there were only a billion people, but they nearly all had jobs too. So 5 times the population and 1000 times the "mechanical production" and pretty much everyone still has a job [though Egypt and other places that self-destruct with MAD [mutual assured destruction] political ideologies go wrong from time to time and unemployment and even famine take over].
In China for example, hundreds of millions of people have suddenly found that there were in fact jobs and an ever-increasing number of them, and pay in them.
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