Jobless and joyless world

Hence! Home, you idle creatures get you home!Is this a holiday? What, know you not,Being mechanical, you ought not walkUpon a laboring day without the signOf your profession?These are the famous words from Shakespeare’s Julius Ceaser. When it was written, possibly unemployment was either too insignificant or did not exist. It was as alien a concept to them as full employment is to us. Unemployment started with the introduction of money. During barter system, people used to exchange what they had with what they needed. As the society expanded, came industrialization, capitalism and bureaucratisation. One of the evils plaguing the society is unemployment. It is speeding at such a rapid rate that there seems to be no chance of eradicating it. The world employment outlook is dire. Unemployment stands at more than 20million and is still rising. The recent Arab spring in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, riots in London, the protests in Greece and the occupy Wall Street movement in the US are all in a way the result of unemployment.The success of an economy should be judged not by its stock market. The main cause of unemployment is lack of resources and poverty. The poor are unable to meet even the basic needs for their sustenance. The other cause is population explosion. The more the population the less the number of jobs. The differences between the rich and the poor also add up. While on the one side, the poor struggle to get education, the rich with all the resources at their disposal, get the jobs. Moreover, developing countries do not even have the technology to produce goods and export them.Certain measures must be taken to curb unemployment. First of all, discrimination should be removed and jobs should be given on the basis of skills rather than the weight of their purses or recommendations. Efforts should be made to ensure that the basic needs of all are met. Measures taken by the government to develop infrastructure and the social sector will create employment potential among the unemployed.Sanjana Varma is a XII standard student at Narayana Junior college