Posted on 11/19/2012 12:56:36 PM PST by Olog-hai
An unemployed Berlin man who had his state welfare cut to nearly nothing is refusing to eat, in an attempt to make the government consider introducing a basic income.
He denies bringing the situation upon himself by turning down multiple job offers, saying that as a trained and experienced occupational therapist, it would be unthinkable to work in a badly paid, unskilled job.
He turned down shifts at a call center for 7 ($8.96) an hour, calling it slave labor, while a job in the office of a temping agency would make Boes what he called a slave master, both of which were, morally, not options for him. Instead, he wants an unconditional basic income paid by the government for everyone.
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Where people hear you on the phone and then offer you a job based on the customer service?
Hell, I've got jobs while hitch-hiking.
I've had a very weird life.
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