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I do not 'instinctively hate' the poor or unemployed. How ridiculous.
These work programmees, at least the MWA, has been shown to be ineffective at getting people in to work. So forcing people in to unpaid work, where the job will not even bring them beneficial experience, and furthermore undermines the job market, can only be a punitive measure.
However, I found it an odd statement on the part of the plaintiff that, by being made to take up a work placement, she didn't have time left to do her voluntary work.
How is that 'odd'? She was already volunteering in an area which was relevant to her work. That is precisely the thing which these work schemes ostensible claim to be about, except the work schemes are ineffective.
if there's a job going in a supermarket (which is what she does now) and no jobs going in museums, they need to revise their ambitions a little.
Is that right? So people who have worked as IT programmers, nurses, firemen, and qualified mechanics and are out of work should work stacking shelves in a supermarket?
Not only will this make every subsequent employer laugh at your CV and never take you seriously again, but it would deprive less qualified people who desperately need a job of obtaining that job.
Like I said, your ideas are not based on helping people find work at all, they're based in resentment at having to pay for welfare. So you want to punish them.