tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1144843523111792013.post2298876030765654118..comments2023-08-21T08:27:17.553-07:00Comments on Challenges not Barriers : The Need for a New Business ModelNeil Jacobsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394393328146160546noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1144843523111792013.post-41464611983012562182019-02-03T20:01:26.446-08:002019-02-03T20:01:26.446-08:00The circumstances around the chronic recurring une...The circumstances around the chronic recurring unemployment of our community may mostly due to the economic system we live in with rewards profits and efficiencies that companies need to stay competitive in the world .<br />The other factors include (beside our individual attitudes toward work )are the unwillingness of business to adequately take into consideration when paying us a salary the additional costs associated with our disabilities from the getgo and expecting us to pay for those costs out of our disposable income which an able bodied person does not need to consider , the cost in making the workplace accessible and inviting for us to consider working therearry<br />Many of our people including some members of this list are trained in liberal arts and while many are talented and willing to work under favorable conditions for themselves are as in the walking people community just not being hired. This is because business always want to incentivize profits and cheap labor and automate everything first as opposed to puttingthe social well being of the people who help the business make the profits first<br />Most folks did not have the combinations of being at the right place at the right historical moment and the aptitude’s and abilities Neil has to become a mathematics scholar and business master that Neil was nor have the drive to become Senior Vice President of a prominent and well known bank. I don’t underestimate the hard struggles he had and has and the conditions that Neil endured . I don’t know what those were and are.<br />I also know many of us could not have started the Center for Independent Living Computer Training Project as Neil and Scott Luebking were able to do and give Glen Vinton and Ralph Boemio amongst others I don’t know or can’t remember an opportunity to earn a modest income. I took the test for that program in 1978 and I was told you are smart enough but don’t have the right brain to do the 9 month program<br /><br />No it’s more complicated than what Neil suggests although he is correct in saying that many of us do not go to work because the cost of losing our benefits is too high. There is also the stress and risk to our fragile health<br />Until the relationship and balance of power shifts in the favor of us as potential laborers as with all labor and business as well as the society pus the masses first and sees the masses as worthwhile investments rather than the profit margin and I don’t know if and when supply side economics will change ,we are stuck whatever other solutions are offered.<br />Larry BuchalterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1144843523111792013.post-75327002975590818542019-02-02T23:31:37.828-08:002019-02-02T23:31:37.828-08:00I ask permission to copy and post the above opinio...I ask permission to copy and post the above opinion piece by Neil as I have made mention of it and responded to it publicly.<br />Thank youBody pointhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08566991451415349030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1144843523111792013.post-7843632492473577072019-02-02T23:26:23.266-08:002019-02-02T23:26:23.266-08:00Hi Denise Jacobsen I was trying to respond to Neil...Hi Denise Jacobsen I was trying to respond to Neil’s post in August about disability and employment but my post vanished<br /><br />The circumstances around the chronic recurring unemployment of our community may mostly due to the economic system we live in with rewards profits and efficiencies that companies need to stay competitive in the world . <br />The other factors include (beside our individual attitudes toward work )are the unwillingness of business to adequately take into consideration when paying us a salary the additional costs associated with our disabilities from the getgo and expecting us to pay for those costs out of our disposable income which an able bodied person does not need to consider , the cost in making the workplace accessible and inviting for us to consider working therearry<br />Many of our people including some members of this list are trained in liberal arts and while many are talented and willing to work under favorable conditions for themselves are as in the walking people community just not being hired. This is because business always want to incentivize profits and cheap labor and automate everything first as opposed to puttingthe social well being of the people who help the business make the profits first<br />Most folks did not have the combinations of being at the right place at the right historical moment and the aptitude’s and abilities Neil has to become a mathematics scholar and business master that Neil was nor have the drive to become Senior Vice President of a prominent and well known bank. I don’t underestimate the hard struggles he had and has and the conditions that Neil endured . I don’t know what those were and are.<br />I also know many of us could not have started the Center for Independent Living Computer Training Project as Neil and Scott Luebking were able to do and give Glen Vinton and Ralph Boemio amongst others I don’t know or can’t remember an opportunity to earn a modest income. I took the test for that program in 1978 and I was told you are smart enough but don’t have the right brain to do the 9 month program<br /><br />No it’s more complicated than what Neil suggests although he is correct in saying that many of us do not go to work because the cost of losing our benefits is too high. There is also the stress and risk to our fragile health <br />Until the relationship and balance of power shifts in the favor of us as potential laborers as with all labor and business as well as the society pus the masses first and sees the masses as worthwhile investments rather than the profit margin and I don’t know if and when supply side economics will change ,we are stuck whatever other solutions are offered.<br />L<br /><br />Sent from my iPadBody pointhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08566991451415349030noreply@blogger.com