This is often the excuse I have heard about big business where one individual has $1 billion and another is a beggar. While I argue the fruits of capitalism or more properly socialism. I remember in 1990, I was in the United Arab Emirates. To have a place to live and to eat were guaranteed. The question of the billionaire, did he really work harder, is he better educated. Clearly, I believe someone in power truly mentored him.

While I do not question the need for the people to gainful employment. I think of the Sheik of the Dubai, thousands of Pakistanis, Indian, Philipinos and Iranians come for jobs.

I live in America, low wage jobs by American Standards are plentiful.
Think of the Ubiquitous Call-center. Often times, it can be a great job selling vacations.

Or it can be a torture from the day the job begins collecting deliquent bills. To become the millionaire, the boss will cut half the staff a year. Keeping the wages low is the priority. A person begins to have a hearing problem. A girl cracks because of the pressure to make an over ambitious sales quota. A boy asks attractive woman, but the woman is vindictive and complains to boss. The woman becomes pregnant with a child. A man is late because he travels a greater distance and the bus breaks down. A person speaks out against a corrupt policeman. The boss makes an unwanted sexual advance on a powerless coworker. Each time, he or she is fired. Any reason to create turn over. The millionaire is created and 1000 people go home in shame because they lost their job. The unemployed person becomes another number of the lost thousand.

The power of the Union should be where each can immediately go to the Union or the manager in a large company and hopefully replaced. My hope is in the cities of the future, these talent people can go back to work immediately, through a proper system of unemployment and re-education. I believe that is the challenge of the future. Some of these people may have moved out from the rural farm and do not have the educational opportunity of a wealthy merchant’s child. It is not fair, but that is any society.
I think that is the failed part of any society.

One of the biggest failings of American Society is the Highly Expensive education system. It caters to the young. Several people compete for that important worker-retraining spot. However, if you get laid off in the middle of the school year, a person may be out of luck. He continues the cycle of poverty because he or she has to take another low wage job.

Truly my story is tragic, but not uncommon. I trained for 2 years to learn a computer program. The problem was, one year later, the software did a major update and I completed my internship program with the old software. Everybody updated, but I have lost several years because I am always playing catch up on trying to learn the latest software. 5 years ago, you needed to know 2 software languages, now you need to know 5. Ironically, I was the one who made the recommendation to the State (regional) counsel on how better to train the workers of the next school year so they did not suffer my fate. My former intern boss stated I did a poor job.
Here is the tragedy of the story. At that time 9 years ago, I had a chance to work for a free internship at a large county with far more opportunity. I took the short sited paying internship at the city. The boss refused to give me a good recommendation when I asked when I wanted to go full time. Add a chronic shoulder injury, working a second job as a janitor. My career is held in the hands of a former boss. Two years of my life are now lost. Working nearly to the point of losing the lose of my shoulder. Several of my friends at the Unpaid internship are all making $100,000 almost double the US average wage. I am stuck in the cycle of poverty. 5 times I have been fired literally because they knew I was getting close to having enough money to saved to take the updated software and readjust my schedule to attend school to get that magic class for the software update and new program. 9 years, in the political world, I have fought and made national change, but because of the bad boss.
The moral of the story is had there been a program for immediate worker retraining, had I would have been one of the chosen losing 4 months rather than nine years. Ironically, I am now a commercial building expert and have adviced my entire congressional delegation as a volunteer aide. I have power, but not wealth. One of the chosen in my family supports me periodically in between temporary jobs.

My belief is if that person become unemployed. In the city of the future, with the opportunity of television, and education software, there should be opportunity so an individual if they can immediately be retrained. Also, I believe support with food, clothing and housing the individual will never suffer my fate again. In China’s One Child policy, there will be no brother or sister to bring support. The cities of future will have opportunity and equality. I above all, if one of your workers shows promise. They are brighter. You should support their education. Then Society is truly served.