I get it, and agree. It's mad how things go these days. You mention the WPA...
Here recently (whilst unemployment benefits were doubled due to covid) they brought in Filipino workers to pick fruit as the primary producers could not get anyone to work there. (Usually backpackers etc. Do it for the money.)
Easier to stay on social security it seems.
If I was the King I'd have the unemployed whipped all the way to the farms then made to work for their unemployment benefit. (Maybe not whipped).
But maybe whipped.
The something for nothing ethos drives me bonkers. Medals for last place? WTF!
Two years compulsory military service will straighten some of them out.
We had all those things! The unemployment during COVID was disgusting in that people refused to work because the unemployment paid MORE than the jobs. They received an extra $600 week.
And so, I like the WPA. We need it back.
I know, right????
We used to have military service that wasn't compulsory, but, everyone joined. It was the one thing that men had in common. They could sit at a diner and they would say, what branch? - and take off from there. They were trained and ready for life.
Now?
Le sigh.
Now?
Yeah...Not much good to say I'm afraid. It's all messed up.