As someone born into the australian monetary policy system, right as I was entering the workforce they instituted a form of early social credit score system at my school, which riled me up so bad I basically stopped paying attention in the last semester of senior highschool, wound up failing everything except IT, which I aced all the exams, just didn't do any assignments.

And then on top of fucking around with my ability to get into CS, which was where I wanted to go, after I get out, the whole AU government is running a whole suite of policies that are designed to limit people's access to the employment market, to ensure a constant unemployed group that is subsidised by welfare in order to keep wages up while overall reducing wage costs to employers.

Or in other words, they were fighting inflation by keeping the most marginal entry level workers, mostly recent school leavers, permanently unemployed so the business lobbies keep dishing the cash out to the politicians reelections.

Or in other words, they MEANT me to not have a job, and I wound up a drunk lost in eastern europe and got to spend a year as a prisoner, to boot, and I am in my third round of attempts to secure adequate income, and nearly 50 years old now, pretty fuckin dreadful. Thanks Paul Keating and Bob Hawke you cunts.

I did my best for a bit over a decade trying to operate my own personal service business as a computer technician but in the end the cost of transport, thanks to government interference, was beyond what I could earn in my work, because I couldn't reach my customer base. I used to get 1% turn-around from my personally delivered ads. Spent AUD$700 one time for a 5000 flier delivery, and got zero, (0) responses, which should have been at least 50 new customers.

The very first moment I am searching a job in Bulgaria, before 2 weeks of spending about an hour a day sending out applicaitons, I walked straight into a job. First time was a call center, yes, pretty high turnover. Second one was call center but technical support.

Completely the opposite of australia.

My advice to young people is, if you find yourself excluded, and these days, this can be for being white, from higher education and opportunities in tech... Leave that shithole place and find somewhere better. Even if it requires you to learn or polish up a second language.

There is nothing worse than wasting your whole 20s and 30s with no income and half that time homeless or so fuckin bored you end up falling into drug addiction.