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That's funny, I was just thinking: hey, you know what needs re-inventing? Slavery.

It is good that the unemployed should gain work experience.However ... this is the thing that has not been made clear to me ...What is there to stop a company from saying: "Jobs? No, we have no jobs. We cannot afford to employ anyone. However, we can gain from allowing people to work for us for free, thereby avoiding the awful necessity of us paying actual wages to workers in the conventional sense, so instead let's get workers that we don't have to pay for, thus delighting our shareholders"?Where is the economic incentive for any company to go from slave labor to waged labor?

But they're not "employable enough" to do that. They're unemployed enough to do that.

If an unemployed person is forced to work for no pay, then the fact that he has done what he was compelled to do doesn't tell potential employers that he's employable. It tells potential employers that he was unemployed, and that no-one wanted to hire his labor for actual money. It's not a recommendation.

"I will have some funds sent to you to complete the errands". This is a classic form of internet scam.