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That as a society we don't have enough useful work for everybody to do today. I believe this is largely true today in the context of people who are currently u

That as a society we don't have enough useful work for everybody to do today. I believe this is largely true today in the context of people who are currently unemployed, and will only be more so in the future. That the government wouldn't efficiently allocate resources if it were to create jobs. You think it would? Look at military contracts, where it's more important for every member of Congress to be able to point to jobs "created" in their district, than that we actually get functional projects at reasonable costs.

crdoconnor 12y ago
>I believe this is largely true today in the context of people who are currently unemployed, and will only be more so in the future. Poverty is on the increase, our infrastructure is not only crumbling it is currently inferior in many ways to some third world countries like China. We have budget cuts for science and NASA not because they've run out of useful work, but because of a political imperative that we should create as many unemployed people as possible through budget cuts. >You think it would? It already did in the 1930s and I am confident it would again. >Look at military contracts, where it's more important for every member of Congress to be able to point to jobs "created" in their district, than that we actually get functional projects at reasonable costs. If we had an alternative working job creation program Congressmen wouldn't try and ram through military contracts to create jobs in their district instead. Meaning less military bloat and more infrastructure spending. Sounds good to me.