To deal with the problem of unemployment, we must set up an emergency mechanism whose goals are as follows:
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Admit the unemployed into a regular study framework (details below), which will be defined as “employment.” Anyone who participates in it will not be considered unemployed, either in the state’s statistics or in one’s social status.
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A participant in the study framework will be given a grant that allows for reasonable sustenance as long as they participate in the program. The term, “unemployment compensation,” which is sometimes considered derogatory, will be replaced by “grant” or “scholarship,” which testify to the fact that that person is taking part in an educational course. The semantics here are of paramount importance.
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The sum of the grant will be determined by the state, considering the necessities of the employee and his or her family, with the aim of allowing them reasonable provision.
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Another important goal is the prevention of unemployment, bitterness, and mass demonstrations. Just as one’s ordinary job forms a social framework, the new educational program will also be a social framework. This framework will alleviate not only social and financial distress, but will also secure a healthy daily schedule, and prevent idleness or decline into crime and various addictions. One who participates in the educational framework in return for a government sustenance grant will be regarded as “one who has found a job.” That person’s work is to study and acquire life skills—understanding the new reality and the changes one is committed to undergo to sustain oneself with dignity, as well as to evolve personally and socially toward life in mutual guarantee among all people. A worker who upgrades his personal worth, receives a grant, and feels that the state cares for his or her fate is highly unlikely to go into the streets to demonstrate.
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Provision of practical tools for rejoining the workforce (details below).
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Upgrading the social status of the unemployed from that of an outcast to that of a person entering a process of positive transformation and expansion of social and professional skills.
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Deepening sympathy with the state and social cohesion, even—if not especially—in times of crisis. Understanding the crisis and its causes will prevent arguments and disputes, enhance social cohesion and empathy with the state’s institutions, and create a dynamic of change from a sense of sympathy and understanding of the required change on all levels of life.