A person without a job needs to consume goods and services to live. Just like the “rest of us”. And people are able to produce things they need for themselves. People can grow food, raise livestock, sew clothes, diagnose illness, repair cars, cut down trees for firewood. There are more than a few jobless individuals in towns and communities across the country. What about the jobless producing for themselves and trading their excess production with other jobless who themselves are producing and trading?
Focus public policy regarding the jobless on enabling those without jobs to produce for themselves and others. Provide repair garages that people can use, no charge, to repair cars. Expand the number of community gardens and farms in an area so that people can best grow food and raise livestock for their consumption. Let us go all out in a thought experiment kind of way and imagine a society where there are no free, public schools. The jobless ( more accurately identified as “people without an income”. ) have children who need to be educated. Have the government provide classroom space to those who cannot afford to pay school tuition. The jobless person who repairs cars can trade car repair services with another jobless person who teaches grade school mathematics. So does the person who raises chickens at the local farming facilities the government provides.
The suggestion of government providing the jobless with a means to production is presented for argument sake. Arguably, the furnished car repair facility, the furnished farming facility and the furnished schooling facility can all be produced and maintained by other jobless individuals. Providing facilities for others to use to produce is itself the production of a product. Which is sold to others who themselves have production to sell.
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