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Comment: The PM's simplistic opinion that keeping Newstart low gives people an incentive to work actually has the opposite effect.

". However, an increasing body of evidence says that his refusal to increase the rate of Newstart directly threatens this objective. Because while taking drugs may not help you get a job, neither does living in extreme poverty.

Morrison's position on Newstart feeds off the neo-classical economic view that you need to keep the unemployment benefit so low that people have an incentive to find a job. What this fails to account for is the underlying causes of many people's unemployment, and how pushing them further into poverty makes them less, not more, likely to get a job and become "self-sufficient".

Poverty also impacts economic decision-making, with research showing that poverty leads to people putting greater value on short- versus long-term benefits. For people looking for a job this matters, because it involves a short-term investment in order to realise a long-term goal . While we all tend to put more value on what we can enjoy today versus tomorrow, the research shows that poverty itself makes this problem worse.

 

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I would say the self esteem needed to actualy present for a job was just slaughtered by this grunter who does not know the suffering of the regular human.

This is not a man who understands struggle. Everything always worked out for him so his views remained at this safe space where no real growth occurred. He believes in fracking, so he’s happy to cause great pain with a broad smile. a big man like him knows how to get things done.

It gives them an incentive to become criminal and dishonest.

how do you come to this conclusion?

If the 200,000 rejected for the DSP are deducted form the inflated unemploymed tally, Australia is below the Reserve bank full employment threshold.

Morrison lies. According 2 Res Bank full employment is 5% unemployment. The lie here is 700.000 people are unemployed. Wrong 500,000 r unemp and 200,000 r rejected DSP applicants dumped on the dole. Sick injured aged damaged people being forced 2 look 4 jobs that don't exist.

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