Friday 29 September 2006

Unintended consequences

Reality strikes again:
The upshot could be legal battles between young employees and their employers, or barriers being put up in the hiring of staff under 21.
This is exactly what's to be expected whenever the state tries to stop people "discriminating". In a free society there's always work for the competent and reliable.

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David Farrer said...

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Martin
The words 'petard' and 'hoist' spring to mind...

4 October 2006, 21:05:12 GMT+01:00
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David Farrer
Martin, 
 
They're certainly free to travel to Dubai (Why, other than to connect to Australia?) but can't be said to live in an economically free society. 
 
For that to be true we'd need something along these lines!

4 October 2006, 19:40:25 GMT+01:00
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Martin
David, 
 
I cannot understand how those Scots queueing at Abbotinch's check-in desks to go on holiday to Dubai cannot be thought of as free.

1 October 2006, 14:42:40 GMT+01:00
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David Farrer
But we don't live in a free society, especially here in Scotland. 
 
The new paper from the Policy Institute shows how our huge levels of public spending harms the real economy.

30 September 2006, 17:20:10 GMT+01:00
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Martin
David, 
 
You must excuse me if I sound a little tart, but "In a free society there's always work for the competent and reliable" sounds as if it should be up there with "You have nothing to fear but fear itself" - an ideological slogan, not a statement of fact.  
 
At the age of 36, despite holding quite good qualifications, the only work I can find is in call centres. I go there every day and sit amongst physics and engineering graduates 12 years younger than myself who can't find posts in their fields. They're neither stupid, illiterate, workshy nor grade inflated - they just can't get hired.  
 
They didn't push themselves to obtain high level technical qualificaions to sit in call centres and make the unemployment statistics look good.

30 September 2006, 12:40:25 GMT+01:00