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The amount of work that needs to be done is nearly infinite. It's just that we don't currently value the work as highly as the cash it would take to pay the wor
by RhodesianHunter 3y ago
The amount of work that needs to be done is nearly infinite. It's just that we don't currently value the work as highly as the cash it would take to pay the worker.
In a world where we decided to do this, there is plenty these people could be doing to contribute greatly to society.
- sneak 3y agoIt wasn't rhetoric - what work would they be doing? For whom? Who would assign it? Based on what priorities? We are talking about a firehose of somewhere around five hundred billion dollars a year. Where do you intend to aim it?
- RhodesianHunter 3y agoOur infrastructure is woefully out of date and remains so because it's very expensive to fix. Let's fix it. Fill pot holes, add and improve drainage canals, build damns and levees, etc.
- sneak 3y agoOk, who gets priority? Whose bridges get fixed first? Population centers? Rural places without a lot of traffic? Which states? What about the environmental considerations for the dams? Who gets the power generated? This is what I mean by a "municipal handout" - this is a firehose of value, and the people you point it at will be enriched. The allocation of that value is not trivial, as everyone who holds USD is paying for the labor via inflation of the money supply.
- RhodesianHunter 3y agoIt sounds like you just described a whole other set of jobs this will find, ie the managerial and beurocrat class that will oversee it.
- idiotsecant 3y agoThere are already plenty of lists of dangerously unmaintained bridges and roads that lack the funding required to keep them safely operational. Start there. Trust me, finding infrastructure to work on in the US is not a problem.
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