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



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