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Today I want to talk about personal identity and unemployment. 

Perth, Western Australia, post resources boom. Increasing rates of unemployment and under-employment are a sign of the times. Why? Expansion projects have been completed, reductions in the labour intensiveness of production, commodity price drops due to reduced demand, and a number other factors that don’t feature as prominently as others. There are many implications associated with the ensuing unemployment and underemployment. But one that of these implications that hits people on an individual level, is the loss of identity that we can feel as a result of losing a job.