• @[email protected]
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    338 months ago

    I remember during covid I thought one silver lining type thing would be many many more people having to experience the shitty way the Australian government treats unemployed people who need help. Of course they got around this by temporarily changing it, which to me was a stark admission that it was totally inadequate in the first place.

      • @[email protected]
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        108 months ago

        Yes exactly it’s extremely frustrating. Everyone just forgot because it was ok for them when they needed help. If the system was actually working properly it wouldn’t require any changes for an event like covid.

  • @[email protected]
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    168 months ago

    Because we make national sport out of kicking the shit out of people doing it rough. You will serve or you will die, citizen

    • @macrocephalic
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      28 months ago

      Because everyone on the sole is lazy. Except when we need assistance in which case we’re just a battler needing help, but everyone else is lazy.

  • @[email protected]
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    128 months ago

    Love this line:

    “For some reason, it released the report on the Friday between Anzac Day and the weekend, so it didn’t get much media coverage.”

    Can’t be seen helping poor people. Can’t admit you’re not helping them either.

  • @eatthecake
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    78 months ago

    I was long term unemployed and the ptsd from what i had to do to survive has made me a wonderful employee. I live in terror of losing my job.

    • @PDFuego
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      28 months ago

      I was absolutely miserable at my previous job but I couldn’t go back to being unemployed so I put up with it (while job hunting, which is just as bloody miserable) until I had a total breakdown one day. Now I’m in a much better position and enjoy what I do, but I still have a mortgage on an apartment looming over the rest of my life and losing my job for any reason would make my 10th story balcony look very tempting. It shouldn’t feel this way.

      • @eatthecake
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        28 months ago

        I’d vote for a ubi in a heartbeat, and lower home prices. I dont think i’ll ever have a mortgage and i don’t get how people do it without job security. I’d be even more terrified. Good luck friend.

        • @abhibeckert
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          18 months ago

          I’d vote for a ubi in a heartbeat

          With you there.

          and lower home prices.

          The issue is just not that simple to fix.

          • @macrocephalic
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            28 months ago

            There are a lot of things which can be done to start fixing it, but we won’t even do those. Get rid of the capital gains discount and make investment losses only able to be counted against profit from that investment (not other income).

            Then you can start looking at supply and liquidity issues.

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