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What exactly was wrong with FDR's public works adminisration and works progress administration? They built a ton of stuff we still use today.
by crdoconnor 11y ago
What exactly was wrong with FDR's public works adminisration and works progress administration?
They built a ton of stuff we still use today.
- dllthomas 11y agoI have no objection to hiring people to build useful stuff. That prospect differs from a "job guarantee" precisely where that stuff is not sufficiently useful. In the margin there, I object to paying people to take time and effort away from places they may find more value, to do things that are of minimal value, in the name of "dignity." In fact, I think paying for useless work is destructive of precisely that dignity (along with a pile of economic value).
- crdoconnor 11y ago"That prospect differs from a "job guarantee" precisely where that stuff is not sufficiently useful. In the margin there, I object to paying people to take time and effort away from places they may find more value, to do things that are of minimal value, in the name of "dignity." In fact, I think paying for useless work is destructive of precisely that dignity (along with a pile of economic value)." So you are saying, in essence, that people's art projects, poetry and one person startups and time spent watching daytime TV are, on average, more useful than projects like the lincoln tunnel, schools, hospitals and bridges and you object to resources being taken from one to build the other?
- dllthomas 11y agoThat so mischaracterizes what I am saying that I don't believe you are interested in having a meaningful conversation. I'm done here.