How does Australia give one the right to turn down a job?
My favorite welfare program they've created (called NEIS) is for those who want to start their own company. You get paid the above but get to build a company instead of having to search for a job (which is very useful when there are no jobs available in your area).
Taxpayers would basically be funding all the hackathon projects that are "Uber for X".
What's the alternative, work at McDonalds and develop no useful skills in the meantime?
Additionally, _some_ of these companies will actually work out, so there's that bonus too!
Overall, it sounds like a pretty solid investment in the workforce to me. A lot better than paying people to sit home and "look for a job" in an area where jobs are hard to find, at any rate.
Do something useful. (FYI, someone paying you is a strong indicator of "usefulness".)
I'd rather my taxes went to someone trying to build a business than someone that "tries" to get a job only to get fired after a month every time.
As an American, I often fear that responsibility, self-reliance, and self-determinism aren't respected by my countrymen.
So I'm rather heartened to hear that.
While you're right that the doll bludger should "just get a job", you thinking that isn't going to change the fact that they won't.
and you feel that an employee better exemplifies these traits than an entrepreneur?
taxes isnt a living person, so it cannot demonstrate self-reliance/self-determinism.
this doesnt even make any sense
Such programs aren't VC funds, they are a way to get tiny companies off the ground and to legalize under-the-table gigs (which are worse for both worker and state in the long run).
I'd way rather my tax dollars go towards people attempting to create something useful and improve their community than giving them food stamps and leaving them to themselves, which often leads to them sitting around home feeling useless and doing nothing with their lives.