Ryan led discussion today about the workers in Hungary. At first, I thought it was an awful idea to have citizens do hard labor to work for their benefits. When Ryan said, "They are getting paid less than minimum wage." I was like wow, that's a horrible thing to do. But when looking at the big picture, these people have nothing else to do so if the state is giving them free money they should at least work for it. Some people in class said that this idea would never work in America's unemployment program. I raised the point that if you gave Americans an ultimatum of no work, no benefits, that most of them would choose to work for their money.
We also discussed the post office issue about switching to electronic mail. Personally, I don't think it would ever work. Everything is moving to technology lately, but when it's your MAIL, I think it shouldn't be changed from how it has been. There is a problem in our country with identity-theft protection, probably because everything is accessible online and by hackers. If we switched to online e-mail it would be a huge mistake. Maybe a generation or two down the line we can ease in to it, but I think it's completely impossible today.
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