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I think unemployment as we know it is a capitalist phenomena - certainly capitalism requires unemployment. I'm not sure but perhaps it only postdates the clearances and the rise of the factories.
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I have thought along similar lines, but would wonder if the computerisation and mechanisation of pretty much everything in "first world" environments has now got to a point where it has removed the "need" for masses of relatively unskilled labour.
In the current first world system, it appears that everything possible is done to remove the requirement to pay "full price" for "people" who cant generate more income than they cost.
I doubt there is now a way for a society based on the current economic models to deal with this, esp as the "unskilled" population increases at the rate it does.
Andrew