JobCorps.Gov: free job training, food, housing and living allowance

Re:JobCorps.Gov: free job training, food, housing and living... by pmayrgundter on Thursday August 17, 2023 @04:04PM (#37167196)

Agree and came here to say as much.

Devil's advocate, assuming limited resources for the program, it makes more sense to invest them in younger cohorts in terms of total ROI to society.

However, surely doesn't satisfy the principle of equality under the law. Alas

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Re:JobCorps.Gov: free job training, food, housing and living... by datavirtue on Thursday August 17, 2023 @04:09PM (#37167249)

I don't know of anyone qualified to judge someones "ROI to society." That is a totally fucked up outlook. What next, eugenics?

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Re:JobCorps.Gov: free job training, food, housing and living... by dvasdekis on Thursday August 17, 2023 @04:41PM (#37167715)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life#Estimates_of_the...

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Re:JobCorps.Gov: free job training, food, housing and living... by labster on Thursday August 17, 2023 @04:27PM (#37167484)

That is literally the job of politicians.

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Re:JobCorps.Gov: free job training, food, housing and living... by pmayrgundter on Thursday August 17, 2023 @04:54PM (#37167921)

They said "qualified", heheh ;)

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Re:JobCorps.Gov: free job training, food, housing and living... by something168581 on Thursday August 17, 2023 @04:51PM (#37167882)

Welcome to reality, population: everyone.

Whether you like it or agree with it or not, the math has to be done at some point since we are not (yet?) a post-scarcity species.

How do you think things like life insurance policies and wrongful death awards are calculated?

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Re:JobCorps.Gov: free job training, food, housing and living... by l33t7332273 on Thursday August 17, 2023 @04:55PM (#37167930)

Deciding ROI to society is what the government does.

Consider questions like: Why did we spend so much money trying on a Covid vaccine but not to cure gall bladder cancer? Why does eminent domain exist? Why do young men have to register for selective service?

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Re:JobCorps.Gov: free job training, food, housing and living... by cbozeman on Thursday August 17, 2023 @11:53PM (#37171228)

They're called actuaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actuary

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Re:JobCorps.Gov: free job training, food, housing and living... by Dylan16807 on Friday August 18, 2023 @12:50AM (#37171503)

I could see a very particular way of interpreting the ROI of a person that's offensive.

But they were clearly talking about ROI of the job training.

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