Governments can reduce welfare payments, through sending low aptitude workers to work simulator halls, with 100 basic work tasks, to discover their natural abilities.
Professional assessors can assess them for speed and how sustainable a job will be for them in the longer term.
When they find a perfect match, the worker gets guaranteed work using his or her natural skill, based on the findings of the assessors at the simulator.
This is exactly the kind of good old fashioned common sense the bureaucrats will try and shut down quickly.
Why will they shut it down? Well there are two reasons. The most striking reason is because governments want people to do the jobs, which will support the economy the most.
The second reason is because the Australian government has set up the NDIS and disability support pension, so they can build thriving industries and bureaucracies, which support people who have large and small disabilities, or in my view imprison them within the bureaucracies they have created especially for them.
Just imagine for a moment that you got problems sorted for these people and made them independent, then the NDIS and disability support pension bureaucratic industries, which "help" these people, would take a terrible hit. Jobs would be lost and it would be a major calamity.
That, however, is exactly what must happen - that, of course, is if you are an idealist like me.
There are many people who have completely slipped through the net. The system has turned them into homeless junkies and alcoholics.
Many of these people should have been put in a work simulator in their earlier days and they would have had employment and their lives would not have gone down the drain.
It is possible that some people would say that if you made work simulator halls part of the school education system, you would take away a small portion of their childhood. Well ok fine - so how about enrolling the people with low aptitude in such programs when they turn 18. Whichever way it is done, the compulsory government employment system should have full access to the workers' results from the simulator system and find them guaranteed work under the system. Oh, but yes, oh my goodness, what about their privacy and the god-beloved privacy act? Well yes, great, but ok, would you prefer they remained on welfare for the rest of their lives?
None of this is to say that they should not be allowed to study to become a rocket scientist, brain surgeon or rock star, if that's what they want to do. How on earth do you expect them to be able to launch themselves at their preferred middle class career, if the system leaves them broke in the first instance?
In Australia, before the middle class started in the 1950s, 10 year-olds started to learn a trade or went to the country to learn to be a jackaroo. This sort of thought changed in NSW in 1968, as postmodernism appeared and when the Higher School Certificate started. It was better equipped to get more students ready for university, so they could enter the new-fangled middle-class world. The old idea of getting young people ready for basic work early in life had become much more rare. We built our education around middle class education outcomes.
One week's compulsory work experience in year 10 was never good enough. It's no good to send 15 year-olds to a TAFE open day for a catering course, when they should have already been assessed for this in simulated work. By the time people reach 18, they should be work ready.
Low aptitude, which may or may not be associated with disabilities, was always a problem.
In a way we tested them for aptitude every time we gave them a school exam or test. We knew they were slow workers, and yet, we sent them out of school, straight into high paced factory, catering or labouring work and we blame them when they are not fast enough. What's more, many labourers would never been allowed to be labourers if we did MRIs on their spines. But, oh no why spend government funds on that? Well actually, the dole and pension is much more expensive than setting up programs which get people sorted from an early age.
We have set up people to fail. Many of the levels of dispossessed in our society are a direct result of this and it is a blatant disgrace ― Joseph Walz