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Practice Listening: Highlight Correct Summary
ID: #38469
Medium
Unemployment
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I don’t believe that there is a utopia. In fact I believe that people like you who believe as a utopia, are precisely the ones who have led to bad policies and bad results.
It is the illusion that there is a utopia that has led to the idea that you can give people money for not working, and that will cause no perverse results.
In the same way that in other countries which run well and efficient welfare states, have very low unemployment – much lower than we do – it would be as low, or lower as it is there. And at no time before the welfare state, was there mass permanent unemployment; only since the welfare state has there been permanent unemployment. There is no natural condition of unemployment; unemployment comes about on a mass permanent scale entirely because of the welfare state.
So you see the welfare state system as creating a whole class of say, work shy, people who are incentivised not to work.
You are putting up these Aunt Sally’s; utopian first, now work shy. I didn’t say “Work shy” I don’t believe people are naturally work shy. I’ve never referred to them being work shy, I do not take an adversarial position towards the poor unfortunate people who’ve been trapped in the trap.
It is the illusion that there is a utopia that has led to the idea that you can give people money for not working, and that will cause no perverse results.
In the same way that in other countries which run well and efficient welfare states, have very low unemployment – much lower than we do – it would be as low, or lower as it is there. And at no time before the welfare state, was there mass permanent unemployment; only since the welfare state has there been permanent unemployment. There is no natural condition of unemployment; unemployment comes about on a mass permanent scale entirely because of the welfare state.
So you see the welfare state system as creating a whole class of say, work shy, people who are incentivised not to work.
You are putting up these Aunt Sally’s; utopian first, now work shy. I didn’t say “Work shy” I don’t believe people are naturally work shy. I’ve never referred to them being work shy, I do not take an adversarial position towards the poor unfortunate people who’ve been trapped in the trap.
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