Juha_Salminen:
Exactly. In my own work, this “inherited” unemployment from parents to children was visible in concrete terms. Specifically, during the recession of the 1990s, some of the children of the long-term unemployed who remained permanently jobless had never seen their parents in the workforce. Instead, daily life involved dealing with the network of authorities. These children then eventually entered employment services in the 2010s, often with a weak educational background, which in turn was predisposed to weakening their employment prospects. One can easily imagine a situation where parents, due to long-term unemployment, have lived on social benefits for years without the means to provide their children with hobby opportunities, healthy food, and an encouraging atmosphere, as the parents’ energy is consumed by a monthly struggle for survival and dealing with authorities without any visible way out to a better life situation. Certainly, depression manifests more easily then, compared to families where worries are about something else entirely than where the money to keep everyday life running comes from. Unfortunately, there often isn’t enough energy to maintain a healthy lifestyle either, which, in addition to depression, leads to other illnesses that don’t exactly improve one’s chances of finding a job.
It is indeed the case that unless the left wing manages to create an “underclass” in Finland through its taxation and sin tax decisions, the Left Alliance will soon run out of supporters once the Finnish economy finally starts to pick up.
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