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Even if someone can work there are virtually no employers who will touch someone who has been out of work for years. Unless employers are required to hire disabled people, disabled people won’t be hired.
Not to mention accommodations. Myself, for example, can only sit up for around 4~6 hours per day and the longer I sit up, the more likely I am to get muscle spasms later. It helps if I spread this out, so like 3 hours sitting up, a few hours of laying down, then getting back up, rinse and repeat.
Nobody is going to hire me to work 2 hour shifts or will install a bed for me to work from while I rest. Nobody is going to hire someone that can’t stand up for more than 45 minutes. And ain’t nobody going to hire someone whose performance grinds to a halt randomly due to pain spikes caused by working and has to call in sick because it.
Yes, accommodations are a whole nother thing and employers won’t give them unless they are forced! If I want to be able to type all day for software engineering I need a keyboard that costs $1050. That’s something that only needs to be paid if it’s an in office job and makes me significantly less competitive compared to people who don’t need that.
IIRC, USSR did studies after WWII, that found that disabled people who were able to contribute to society had developed overall significantly less mental problems, so there were instituted special programs for organizing workplaces specificially adapted for disabled people. Most people like to feel that they are doing something useful for society.
I feel like to focus should be to incorporate people with a disability into society as much as possible while listening to their needs and wants. It is no use to focus solely on how much money they generate with ‘work’. And sadly very little government programs seem to do just that.
The trouble is, this then turns into pushing and starving people back to work even when they are saying they can’t cope with it.