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Remember Clare Chapman and her January 2005 article about Germany "'If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits"?

Got lots of attention except the article was total nonsense.

by Detlef (Detlef1961_at_yahoo_dot_de) on Wed Jan 14th, 2009 at 08:04:09 AM EST
Yeah... though, the taz article that was plagiarised at least threwsup some thoughts in that direction, even if at the philosophical level. E.g.,

  • So is prostitution now really a job like any other?

  • What about other jobs? Is being forced to work for an unethical company, or to work in an extremely stressful environment (say, heh, collecting trays in the food court of a mall) that much less bad?

  • Or, in general, aint' these shiny new reformed labour labs that blame the unemployed for unemployment and give jobs like punishment not a return to some form of slavery?


*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Jan 14th, 2009 at 01:57:04 PM EST
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