Re: Automation hasn't happened so quickly as now and not everyone's cut out to be a rocket scientist
Unemployment is only under 5% if you:
1. Sanction large numbers of welfare claimants for very dubious reasons, thus taking them off the unemployment statistics
2. Force people to go self-employed, with no guarantee of any income
3. Force others onto zero hour contracts - where they may have earned NOTHING this week, but aren't allowed to claim benefits. They may have a clause in that contract that forbids them from working elsewhere, as it limits their availability for work. And if they resign from the job they have 'made themselves unemployed' and so can't claim anything either
THIS is why food banks are everywhere these days. In what is supposedly the 5th richest nation in the world.
Not to mention all the long-term sick who have to be assessed on a regular basis for their ability to work. Do you have any idea how many people (it's in the thousands) have died within weeks of being pronounced fit to work?
But no, you carry on believing that we have near full employment if that makes you feel better...
