Literate unemployed people make ends meet by making audiobooks, reading from newspapers, textbooks, technical reports, wiki articles etc.
Ad hoc studios can be set up at a local center (or from home) and quality of .mp3's can determined by other internet-based employees prior to payment.
This can be state funded or companies can donate to fund this.-- leinypoo13, Jan 15 2008 //This can be state funded or companies can donate to fund this.//Or the people who use it could pay for it. Sound enough scheme otherwise.-- angel, Jan 15 2008 [Just thinking of how the great works would sound, narrated by some of the sad sacks you see on the dole.]
What angel said, but if we're going to give money to the unemployed, it might as well be for doing something. Heck, it worked for the Nazis.-- DrCurry, Jan 15 2008 Can't wait until I get to hear my corner hum-bum finally CRACK, go into flashbacks and start throwing crack rocks and sugar packets at the studio technician while narrating "Goodbye Saigon."-- Letsbuildafort, Jan 15 2008 Nazis ? Autobahn geht gar nicht.-- erlehmann, Jan 15 2008 random, halfbakery