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To what extent can you fool someone into thinking they're doing a productive job? Social welfare for unemployed factory workers feels like not being productive,
by averagewall 9y ago
To what extent can you fool someone into thinking they're doing a productive job? Social welfare for unemployed factory workers feels like not being productive, but what if you raise tariffs on imports to support local industry and give them jobs. Wouldn't it still feel useless? If you know that your job only exists because other Americans are paying you to make you feel productive because they realise you'll enjoy that more than just getting the money directly, wouldn't that be a hollow satisfaction?
- virmundi 9y agoWouldn't it depend on what you were doing? Pushing paper probably feels pretty shitty. Actually cleaning up a forest in California to prevent another fire probably feels pretty good. We don't make people work hard any more because that's degrading? Not really sure why that is. We had work programs for those unemployed. They paid ok. They provided real benefit for the country. For some reason we don't go back this.
- averagewall 9y agoI don't mean jobs that provide real benefit. I mean making cars or consumer products in cases where the local industry is dependent on import tariffs to survive because the same thing is made cheaper overseas.