Expected this to be some Capitalist bootstrap bullshit but got bamboozled! This is great OP!! Post this anywhere you can, because if I got tricked into thinking this was Capitalist, capitalists won't get scared off by a socialist tone.
Never thought about it like that before. I mean it's understood that if work exists, it's fundamentally because we have some problem.
But it never occurred to me that we aren't supplying the jobs necessary to address those problems.
Shit ... just trying to restore the natural world back to a sustainable condition could by itself employ many thousands of people I'm sure.
All the millions of elderly and disabled people in the world who are neglected because these medical services are not adequately funded.
I work at an autoshop so I have to mention this: The millions of vehicles on our roads which are in a absolutely horrendous condition but aren't being repaired because people either have no money or don't know what they're doing. You want a sustainable economy? Fix shit, don't replace it.
Obviously our infrastructure which is falling apart.
Our educational system, including libraries, museums, the arts.
The many laboratories, researchers, and pioneering scientists who complain, incessantly, about funding shortages.
There are, truly, by no stretch of the imagination, millions of potential jobs out there which do not exist because this economy does not care enough to direct funds into those fields.
I really like this... I was thinking about this same disconnect between necessary work in the world, and the available jobs (wasting away at my shitty service job). How are there so many abandoned houses, and people living on the streets below? How do people go hungry when we throw out so much food? It's because it's illegal to just fix up homes. It's illegal to just give out food en masse. If it hurts some big shot's profits, it has probably been made illegal.
Btw OP - do you have a better picture of the info on the bottom?
Toland27 on May 22nd, 2017 at 23:16 UTC »
Expected this to be some Capitalist bootstrap bullshit but got bamboozled! This is great OP!! Post this anywhere you can, because if I got tricked into thinking this was Capitalist, capitalists won't get scared off by a socialist tone.
MrAnderson345 on May 23rd, 2017 at 00:11 UTC »
Never thought about it like that before. I mean it's understood that if work exists, it's fundamentally because we have some problem.
But it never occurred to me that we aren't supplying the jobs necessary to address those problems.
Shit ... just trying to restore the natural world back to a sustainable condition could by itself employ many thousands of people I'm sure.
All the millions of elderly and disabled people in the world who are neglected because these medical services are not adequately funded.
I work at an autoshop so I have to mention this: The millions of vehicles on our roads which are in a absolutely horrendous condition but aren't being repaired because people either have no money or don't know what they're doing. You want a sustainable economy? Fix shit, don't replace it.
Obviously our infrastructure which is falling apart.
Our educational system, including libraries, museums, the arts.
Our parks, recreational facilities, wildlife preserves.
The many laboratories, researchers, and pioneering scientists who complain, incessantly, about funding shortages.
There are, truly, by no stretch of the imagination, millions of potential jobs out there which do not exist because this economy does not care enough to direct funds into those fields.
bababooey93 on May 23rd, 2017 at 00:59 UTC »
I really like this... I was thinking about this same disconnect between necessary work in the world, and the available jobs (wasting away at my shitty service job). How are there so many abandoned houses, and people living on the streets below? How do people go hungry when we throw out so much food? It's because it's illegal to just fix up homes. It's illegal to just give out food en masse. If it hurts some big shot's profits, it has probably been made illegal.
Btw OP - do you have a better picture of the info on the bottom?