פרסומים אחרונים במדור "טור אישי"

Sorry for writing in English!

The old division between "workers" and "capitalists" is
dead. Today there are two types of people: entrepreneurs
and followers. Everybody can take an initiaive and
succeed, but some people are naturally better at it than
others. An initiative can be to open a shoe-shop, to
become a Shiputznik, or to found a start-up. Unemployed
people are exactly those who are the worst in taking
initiatives and in taking care of themselves. These are
people who have grown accustomed to somebody else
telling them what to do.
Now you suggest again that the government will tell them
what to do: to do some manual labor, forced upon them.
How are they going to learn to be independent and
intiating if they are once again told exactly what to do?
The experience in other countries has been that actually
a better way is to induce the banks to give these people
small loans for starting their own businesses. For example,
a group of women buys a sewing machine and starts doing
clothing-repair works for their neighbors, or rents a place
and opens a beauty parlor, etc. This addresses the main
problem in unemployment, which is psychological and
NOT economic.

LG