Last week I wrote about being funemployed and some considerations before pursuing that route. Now I want to discuss a far more sinister issue, the impact to employment insurance.

Whats the beef ?

Unemployment Insurance is a social program established in order to help people who have lost their job and not a means to fund an extended vacation. Now like any other social program it is open for abuse and that abuse is built into the system. However this thought of being funemployed is a new breed of abuse. It is one that can put substantial strain on unemployment insurance program.

Whats different about funemployment?

Here you have well educated people who have the job skills to find new work but decide not to. It seems as though its become socially accepted and even trendy to fleece the system in this way. When things become trendy they have a tendency to pick up steam and the system will not be able to handle such a large influx of people. This is just another example of a new generation carrying around a sense of entitlement. They don’t seem to realize because something is there that doesn’t me you should take it.

If this kind of attitude continues it will be the end of a lot of social programs and a lot of people will suffer. It’s sad to say but it appears that in order for society to fix itself it may have to venture back into the dark ages in order to spur on a new era of enlightenment.

Do you think having this sort of action become socially acceptable will have on impact on the future?

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