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40hz:
Unfortunately, anytime population begins to significantly outstrip the available 'real' jobs you're going to have this happen. Look at any history book. Or just do the math.

A real problem is that many of the 'cures' that have been tried over the years ("get tough" laws, eugenic legislation, "make-work", deporation to colonial penal colonies, totalitarianism, euthanasia, ethnic cleansing, slavery, genocide, war) are worse than the problem they try to cure. Tough talk, in the absence of dialog, doesn't work. Because if you push people hard enough, sooner or later they're going to start pushing back even harder

The time has come for some radically brilliant thinking.

So...are any radical thinkers out there feeling particularly brilliant today?

Because this world could sure use some of that right now.  8)

tomos:
more interesting thoughts from that blog, some along the lines of much here
http://neweconomics.tumblr.com/post/8782344975/why-politicians-dont-get-the-riots

No, it is not about people who are so poor they are hungry [...]
it is not about leniency [...]
it isn’t about the cuts [...]
it isn’t about ‘broken Britain’ [...]
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Carol Haynes:
You want radical thinking ..

1) Stop the wholescale move of manufacturing to other countries - many young people are not really suited to 'service industries' and will remain unemployable until something is available that they can do.
2) Reintroduce real apprenticeships for real careers.
3) Make school more relevant - at the moment the UK has a one-size fits all approach and that is academic achievement. Bring back real vocational education.
4) I don't believe immigration is the root cause but stop the influx of foreign works that do the jobs no one else wants and get unemployed young people some work experience.
5) Stop encouraging people to do pointless degrees and leaving massive debts just to massage the unemployment figures - a huge proportion of the students drop out and anoth large proportion leave university with a pointless piece of paper and no job (or prospect of one).

I was recently watching a brilliant film about the steel industry on Teesside - one of the telling comments from a working man was the apprenticeship taught young boys and adolescents how to be men with values ... without a goal in life how can we possibly expect the sink estates in depressed cities (and London is one of them despite Buckinghma Palace and the Houses of Parliament) to generate committed and enthusiastic members of society?

nudone:
I think we all know the answer but don't want to say it. It's called "Carousel". (hint: from Logan's Run.) Oh, you may think it's a bit radical, maybe a little extreme. But we'll all be begging for it to a be a reality by the middle of this century.  :)

40hz:
It's called "Carousel".
-nudone (August 12, 2011, 11:02 AM)
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There are worse ways to go. Especially if they threw in the part about Jessica 6 (as played by Jenny Agutter) making herself available "on the circuit."

 UK Riots: Have you been affected?

Well...yes...quite!  ;)

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