Unemployment camps

From ManMachine

Personal plexiglass bubble with input/output holes for feeding and waste removal/ bulletproof/ uv protection/

Unemployment Camp: Cancellation of employment contracts usually resulted in the rapid depletion of financial reserves. Once a zero or negative credit state was reached, the unemployed (in the case of a family, the primary wage earner), disabled, or otherwise unemployable was placed in Unemployment Camp. The legal rights of the interred included the right to nutrition, waste disposal, periodic communication with family members, and humane disposal of the body in case of accidental death. Interment could be appealed, although generally the large number of appealed cases caused serious delays in the processing of claims. Rates of unemployment skyrocketed with the increasing monopolization of services by an ever shrinking number of Cartel members and the steady increase in both human and AI productivity: rates in some Cartels reached up to 25%. Opposition against the unemployment system varied in intensity. The standard argument for continuation was the idea that market forces tended to minimize the number of unemployed, as the maintenance of an individual in a state of umemployment always represented a net loss to the corporation. Movement from a "camp" to a more normative state could be problematic-- many were placed in camps due to possession of skills deemed obsolete, or lack of flexibility with respect to market fluctuations and / or technical innovations. Training programs for progression back into employment tended to change superficial qualities, but not actual adaptive traits, of the unemployed.