All of us would, through taxes, which IMO isn’t necessarily a dealbreaker. It seems that this sort of thing is a lot easier to engineer politically on a local, rather than a national level. Voters are more likely to approve a local tax measure whose proceeds will benefit them, or at least their community, directly. Strategies of this type may prove essential, not only because we sorely need infrastructural upgrades, but also–touching on what Shagnasty said–there doesn’t really seem to be any broadly acceptable means of distributing income among working-age adults other than work.
Enough to make a sizable dent in the unemployment numbers. Unfortunately, the Dems only care about unemployment as it relates to their electability, and they bought the line of bullshit that the conservative economics types have been spewing … that the market would magically recover on its own. Magical thinking is highly prevalent in capitalist economics, look at the way “training” is used as a mantra or magical chant to describe how to get people employed, without any consideration of whether or not there are jobs for them.
Magical thinking will always get you in trouble, as the Democrats have discovered.
There will have to be soon, because as soon as the software and hardware that solves the eye-hand problem as well as the human body has solved it is created, 90 percent of the human race is gonna be unnecessary, from a productivity standpoint. Then what will we do?
The truth is, that unemployment is NOT! a problem. It is a non-issue, a red herring.
Just think for a minute. If unemployment was high, then we would not need to import the additional millions of immigrant workers each and every year if there were not enough unfilled jobs out there. In the last decade, we needed to bring in ten million more additional foreign workers just to fill all the surplus job openings.