I have a different idea. The government should provide a jobs guarantee. There are plenty of things that need to be fixed in this country, and Jim can apply whatever skills he has to fixing some of them.
That would be a separate approach apart from mitigation against automation as @[email protected] suggested. Its also separate from the UBI approach that [email protected] suggested. This third approach of a government jobs guarantee could certainly dive into, but that doesn’t address the two other incomplete approaches provided so far.
Sure, but I’m not particularly interested in UBI. I think it makes the status quo income and wealth inequality permanent and sets it on a course to be ever expanding.
If the overwhelming majority of able-bodied and sound-minded people cannot be organized to do useful work in the system you have, the system is inadequate, and needs to be supplemented.
This country is falling apart physically and psychologically. There’s enough work for anyone willing to do it to repair this place for a lifetime.
I have a different idea. The government should provide a jobs guarantee. There are plenty of things that need to be fixed in this country, and Jim can apply whatever skills he has to fixing some of them.
That would be a separate approach apart from mitigation against automation as @[email protected] suggested. Its also separate from the UBI approach that [email protected] suggested. This third approach of a government jobs guarantee could certainly dive into, but that doesn’t address the two other incomplete approaches provided so far.
Sure, but I’m not particularly interested in UBI. I think it makes the status quo income and wealth inequality permanent and sets it on a course to be ever expanding.
If the overwhelming majority of able-bodied and sound-minded people cannot be organized to do useful work in the system you have, the system is inadequate, and needs to be supplemented.
This country is falling apart physically and psychologically. There’s enough work for anyone willing to do it to repair this place for a lifetime.