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Willing to accept a low enough wage? There's a hard floor on that in most countries. Even ignoring minimum wage, there's a minimum amount of management overhead involved in having an employee, especially a low-wage, low-skill employee, and the value produced by a worker must at least overcome that even if he is to be worth hiring for free.

Willing to relocate? How about able to relocate? Moving to a distant land is a non-trivial exercise.

I seriously don't get your attitude in this thread. You're basically declaring that various serious problems in society are not, in fact, problems at all. According to you, as best I can tell, every single poor or homeless person out there has no obstacles to getting out of their predicament if they just did some obvious things like find employment. This leads me to ask: why do these people exist at all, then? Nobody wants to be poor, so if they can get out of it so easily, why are they still poor?

This is one of those instances where the mere existence of a problem indicates that it's hard to solve, while you're blithely proclaiming it to be trivial.



My attitude comes from the experience of living in a tent in the woods with no money then finding a job washing dishes and working my way up.


I'd wager you had a great deal of mental capital that you're not taking into account.


Yes but I didn't need it to wash dishes.


I doubt that.


Doubt it all you want but until you go DO it you don't have a leg to stand on.


I'm sure you've never been in precisely the same situation as the guys you're criticizing, so where's your leg to stand on?




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