And if not, should we just give everyone £80 per week (the 'Citizen's Wage').
If there is no prospect of getting every single person into a job, is it a waste of money and resources to have Jobcentres? Should we simply give everyone £80 a week (the 'Citizen's Wage') and let those who wish to bump along at the bottom on subsistence money do so? If you wanted to start a business £80 would be a handy subsidy. Similarly, if you could only work part time, you would still get your CW plus whatever you could manage to earn yourself. Rich people would get it too, but they pay loads of tax so that's ok.
I know it's a charter for lazy people to carry on dossing but I wonder how many are deterred/caught by the present system and how much it costs the taxpayer to catch them? We wouldn't need as many Jobcentre staff or buildings either.
I haven't thought about housing benefit yet, eg for old people who have worked all their lives and deserve a rest on the state. Maybe they should get their state pension and the CW. Still on the drawing board with that one.
and ignore the fact that with full employment might come rabid inflation and in order to achieve full employment you'd need massive state intervention to the point of oppression. q.v. Stalin, Hitler etc.
