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They had something like this in the Netherlands during the 80s. Basically everyone was out of a job back then so it didn't really matter. Worst recession since
by TitaRusell 9mo ago
They had something like this in the Netherlands during the 80s. Basically everyone was out of a job back then so it didn't really matter. Worst recession since 1929.
Artists had to make a buch of art which was then given to the government. The state ended up with entire warehouses filled with crap.
- cjbgkagh 8mo agoI have a feeling that this art will end up all over the walls.
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- jazzpush2 9mo agoWhat an amazingly unhealthy way to have a conversation. Almost a spectacle in itself to witness.
- regenschutz 9mo ago>Downvote right back at ya. You don't even have enough karma to downvote comments though..?
- netruk44 9mo agoThe people with green names almost certainly have alternate, primary accounts with that capability.
- junaru 9mo agoBack in soviet times i have waited in breadlines with my parents when i was ~5 but hey we were just doing it wrong...
- LtWorf 9mo agoI said nothing about USSR, I just stated that obviously the parent commentor hasn't read Marx.
- AngryData 8mo agoAnd what does any of that have to do with Marx? The USSR didn't follow Marxist principles, USSR workers didn't have any voice in how businesses operate nor were they given dividends from business profits. In 95% of potential Marxist states democracy is a base requirement and the USSR didn't even manage that.
- carlosjobim 8mo agoYou see, Westerners are simply on a higher level of intelligence than the Slavs and Asians. That's why they will make communism works where everybody else has failed.
- dpc050505 9mo agoYour mind will be blown once you discover rent seeking behaviour.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 9mo agoor what 'passive income' is.
- echelon_musk 9mo agoSurely you mean a worker owned factory.
- jamesbelchamber 9mo agoMarxists don't like Basic Income and it's incompatible with Marxist ideology. "Marxism" has just become thought-terminating shorthand for "thing I don't like".
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- codingdave 8mo agoThere was also the WPA program in the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration The work also included infrastructure projects, and often would create public art to decorate the infrastructure. That is why you'll see far more decorative work when looking at bridges from that era, for example.
- chao- 8mo agoI remember learning about this in high school, but grew up in a part of a large city that only really developed after the 1940's, I didn't think much of it. However, the name was catchy so I had it stashed in my memory somewhere. As I've gone on to live in a few older cities, I have been surprised the number of times that I have (for example) come across a bridge or tunnel or whatnot and seen a big serif "WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION 1936" plaque on one side of it. It always feels like stepping into an alternate reality where history is more present and real. It feels like a silly way to phrase it, but growing up where only a handful of buildings were older than 40 years, encountering history in a more banal form, like a simple bridge with some engravings, always feels more impactful than seeing some 500-year-old castle, monument or other touristy site.
- calvinmorrison 8mo agothey hired artists and builders, they had a nice run of building domestic concentration camps that would make Nancy Pelosi scream ice faster than you could blink
- vintermann 8mo agoThere's a lot of weird and wonderful stuff from that era which came out of the WPA, like the American Guide series. I think we understand that period of time in the US on a deeper level thanks to it.
- Towaway69 8mo agoSounds a bit like if the state invested in startups … hm wait.
- extraduder_ire 8mo agoEnterprise Ireland is the largest VC firm in the world by amount paid and number of clients. Due to EU rules on state aid though, it's technically a quango and not part of the government despite being spun off of the then privatised national sugar company. They also pay Ireland's contributions toward ESA, so the Irish flags you see printed on the side of Ariane rockets aren't a direct result of what the government is doing.
- Daub 8mo agoOddly enough I have just finished making the same observation and used the word 'crap' to describe the result, without even seeing your comment.
- thenthenthen 8mo agoIs this something als than the (former) 1% rule? Every new state owned buildings budget was to be spend on art.