The UK Universal Credit system requires that you spend 35 hours a week looking for jobs that in aggregate cannot exist.
Pakistan is hiring unemployed labourers to plant trees.
Argentina had the Jefes programme.
If you look you'll find that "guaranteed jobs" are generally already there as part of the stabilisation process. They're just not very good, don't pay enough to live on and aren't available to all - which is what is required to make them work effectively as an automatic stabiliser.
And of course that is because the current regimes want an unemployment buffer to drive down wages at the low end.
Pakistan is hiring unemployed labourers to plant trees.
Argentina had the Jefes programme.
If you look you'll find that "guaranteed jobs" are generally already there as part of the stabilisation process. They're just not very good, don't pay enough to live on and aren't available to all - which is what is required to make them work effectively as an automatic stabiliser.
And of course that is because the current regimes want an unemployment buffer to drive down wages at the low end.