What is common between a petty thief and an extremist is, both lack a productive engagement of labor; apart from the fact that both are led by their own misleading ideologies on life. As they remain alien to the world of work and productivity, they go in search of alternative means to fulfill their needs and desires. It is needless to say that they ought to be punished when their actions harm the society, nevertheless, for the society to stop creating conditions that give birth to unlawful means of survival, it must look for ways to curb unemployment.
Unemployment invokes a variety of response in youth, based on their inherent and acquired tendencies. There are youths who keep striving through whatever possible means available to them to find employment. There are others who may sulk in self-pity and eventually create an environment that leads them to self-destruction. There are yet others who may develop indifference and hatred towards the society and convince themselves to become social predators for self-survival. Although these outcomes stem from the tendencies of an individual, to reform them may not be possible until the individual starts introspecting on his own actions and seeks self-reformation. Whereas, a social change that addresses unemployment can prevent them from slipping into nefarious ways and from falling into unlawful hands that seek their participation for organized forms of crime.
Apart from individuals pursuing random acts of crime, there are organized cartels of crime, independent of, and in nexus with political parties, fundamentalist organizations and casteist groups that give asylum to misguided youth. They use these youth as foot soldiers to foster their murky ambitions. A youth, succumbing to the game plan of a ruthless cartel of crime or its hardcore leader, who has ascended its throne through his ability to manipulate crime as a tool, could have met a different destiny in life if he was introduced to the world of work and productivity.
Work not only pays, it also raises the self-esteem of an individual. It helps one to discover the potential in oneself. The value proposition is even higher when an individual is engaged in sustainable forms of labor that not only creates consumable value to the human society, but also protects other lives and the environment. Such a productive engagement of labor will not just benefit the individual, but also the whole of the society. What we need is a relative ease in making oneself 'employable' and finding 'employment', to start earning. The biggest stumbling block today, that's preventing this from happening is the business of education. The apparent and hidden evils in the system of education are giving birth to several abominable evils in the society. They create artificial barricades to employment, a condition which they impose upon students to amass money from both the rich and the vulnerable.
What the society needs to understand is, when it denies an individual rightful means to poise himself for a rewarding labor, it is creating conditions that will lead him elsewhere. Those who are strong and determined not to give in to the temptations of quicker and illegal ways of making money may survive any storm in life. But what about all others, who, owing to the conditions in their life, choose a path that destroys themselves and the rest of the society? And it's not only the (successive) governments and their policies responsible for this, the society and a number of its institutions are equally responsible for creating factors leading to unemployment, wherefrom crime starts breeding relentlessly.
Unemployment invokes a variety of response in youth, based on their inherent and acquired tendencies. There are youths who keep striving through whatever possible means available to them to find employment. There are others who may sulk in self-pity and eventually create an environment that leads them to self-destruction. There are yet others who may develop indifference and hatred towards the society and convince themselves to become social predators for self-survival. Although these outcomes stem from the tendencies of an individual, to reform them may not be possible until the individual starts introspecting on his own actions and seeks self-reformation. Whereas, a social change that addresses unemployment can prevent them from slipping into nefarious ways and from falling into unlawful hands that seek their participation for organized forms of crime.
Apart from individuals pursuing random acts of crime, there are organized cartels of crime, independent of, and in nexus with political parties, fundamentalist organizations and casteist groups that give asylum to misguided youth. They use these youth as foot soldiers to foster their murky ambitions. A youth, succumbing to the game plan of a ruthless cartel of crime or its hardcore leader, who has ascended its throne through his ability to manipulate crime as a tool, could have met a different destiny in life if he was introduced to the world of work and productivity.
Work not only pays, it also raises the self-esteem of an individual. It helps one to discover the potential in oneself. The value proposition is even higher when an individual is engaged in sustainable forms of labor that not only creates consumable value to the human society, but also protects other lives and the environment. Such a productive engagement of labor will not just benefit the individual, but also the whole of the society. What we need is a relative ease in making oneself 'employable' and finding 'employment', to start earning. The biggest stumbling block today, that's preventing this from happening is the business of education. The apparent and hidden evils in the system of education are giving birth to several abominable evils in the society. They create artificial barricades to employment, a condition which they impose upon students to amass money from both the rich and the vulnerable.
What the society needs to understand is, when it denies an individual rightful means to poise himself for a rewarding labor, it is creating conditions that will lead him elsewhere. Those who are strong and determined not to give in to the temptations of quicker and illegal ways of making money may survive any storm in life. But what about all others, who, owing to the conditions in their life, choose a path that destroys themselves and the rest of the society? And it's not only the (successive) governments and their policies responsible for this, the society and a number of its institutions are equally responsible for creating factors leading to unemployment, wherefrom crime starts breeding relentlessly.