Proglodyte explains proglodyte personality

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jtuck004 (10,475 posts)

How unemployment warps your personality over time -

WASHINGTON -- Long periods of unemployment drain our bank accounts and weaken the economy. New research suggests extended joblessness could also dampen our personalities. And that can make it harder to find more work.

A study published this month in the Journal of Applied Psychology examined a sample of 6,769 German adults -- 3,733 men and 3,036 women -- who took the same personality test twice in a four-year window. During the experiment, 251 subjects were unemployed for less than a year; 210 faced joblessness for one to four years.
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"Unemployment," researchers wrote, "has one of the strongest impacts on well-being ... often lasting beyond the period of unemployment and being comparable with that of becoming disabled."

The findings in Germany have domestic implications. One characteristic of America's slow economic recovery is the extraordinary number of people who have fallen into the ranks of the long-term unemployed, those unable to find jobs for 27 weeks or more. An estimated 3.4 million fit this description, by the Economic Policy Institute's measure.
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Here: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20150228/business/150229002/

Interesting, in that we have never allowed this many to languish without opportunity, just to keep the assets of the rest inflated in a pretend recovery.

Our kid's kids are gonna pay a big price for our sloth and greed.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026294954

[JohnnyReb]

Our kid's kids are gonna pay a big price for our sloth and greed.....WOW! A kernel of truth from a DUmmie.....but they still want their government freebies.

[miskie]

So, DUmmy, how's that 'Summer of recovery' treating you ? Obviously pretty well since you reelected the team that brought that delightful anecdote to you.

[obumazombie]

So, DUmmy, how's that 'Summer of recovery' treating you ? Obviously pretty well since you reelected the team that brought that delightful anecdote to you.

We've had (according to the owebuma administration) a "Summer of recovery" every summer now since owebuma has been in office.
How's that working for us ?

[DumbAss Tanker]

First, the study was of Germans, who unlike Democrats, generally want to work, even the Left-wing ones.

Second, the German way of dealing with unemployment involves not just benefits like our unemployment compensation and generally broader social welfare benefits, but also making you look for work and can include being sent to retraining programs for other industries, where you get to start over at the bottom, which does involve more stress than staying at home binge-watching the ol' Fernseher.

They're pretty Socialist compared to the US, like all of Western Europe is, but they still have a work ethic and life expectations that are nothing like the Progs and the US welfare class.