Unemployment

Unemployment does more than devistate its victims, both financially and psychologically. It wastes an important societal resource. We are all made poorer by it, as we would be if a year's worth of wheat or corn were dumped in the ocean. The goods and services that could have been provided by unemployed people will never exist.

It occurs to me that the unemployed themselves may be able to solve, or at least ameliorate, the situation. They could meet in appropriately sized groups to brainstorm for ways for any or all of them to produce wealth. They could also educate each other. Perhaps some organization will agree and start a ball rolling.