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Unemployment solutions

Sleeppy

Sleeppy

Fatalist. Christian. Pacifist.
Technology. Employment shouldn't be our main focus. Production and adequate distribution should be.
 
Quintessence

Quintessence

Consults with Trees
Staff member
Premium Member
The only way to "solve" unemployment is to discard systems that create dichotomies of "employed vs unemployed" in the first place. So long as you have a system where "employment" is part of the social norm, you will inevitably have people who are "not employed" per the standards of that norm. Basically, if we go back to a pre-currency mode of living, that would pretty much do it.
 
esmith

esmith

Veteran Member
In real simple terms-----provide employment for the unemployed; then of course you'll have to figure out a way to get them to accept the jobs.
 
Valjean

Valjean

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Turn back the clock!
Why experiment with new, liberal fixes when we have good, conservative, tried-and-true remedies?
Restore what worked in the past: CCC, WPA, PWA, &c. Revive the Glass-Steagall act to protect private citizens from the investment speculators.
We might also try scrapping what didn't work, like the Trade Agreements -- nAFTA (Sorry, capital 'n' broke) &al, that sent so many industries and jobs overseas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Works_Administration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass–Steagall_Legislation
 
metis

metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
IMO, it should be the responsibility of any government to do its best to create jobs even if it means being less efficient. To have millions of people sitting around without a job is very destructive to a society. As John Maynard Keynes said, it's better to have people digging holes and filling them back up again than to have them sitting back with no work.
 
Midnight Rain

Midnight Rain

Well-Known Member
Leo613 said:
What's the solution to unemployment?
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A little unemployment is good. Zero unemployment means that there are no people looking for a type of job in which case causes a crisis in that field of work.

I have heard of several good ideas for decreasing unemployment but lets not forget that QUALITY of employment also matters. We focused on getting more and more jobs though ****ty means in America. Now we have a decent unemployment rate but half the ****ing people are working off of minimum wage in part time jobs. That isn't actually any better than before. I've been unemployed and I've been under-employed. TBH working for 7 bucks an hour 20 hours a week isn't even worth the **** I have to go through for that job. I've had to do it for short periods of time but its no way to live in a modern nation. You still live below the poverty line and you still have absolutely no money or health-insurance.

High rates of decent paying infrastructural jobs is a good jobs program for the government that can work as a semi-success regulator for the economy and stops us from going down to a screeching halt. However the vast majority of jobs do depend on the private sector. However the payback of having better infrastructure is an incredible investment for our communities.
 
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