"It's up to people to occupy themselves how they wish to do, not for me to tell them what they must do. Remove the barriers to hiring them. Get the government off their backs. It's up to them to do things for other people in exchange for means of support."
Q, I feel so educated now.
Slums and ghettos all across the world will suddenly sprout flower pots resting on feces littered side streets and the delicious aroma of chickens simmering in pots will mix with the outhouse scented air. The biggest problem will be finding parking spaces for the cars they'll buy and prospective employers will have to slip past those crammed together vehicles and up their tendered wages in order to find the few unemployed people who might be willing to take on a different job.
Because we all know that if we could somehow get those governments off their backs we could regain the natural equilibrium that's existed throughout history and which created such a rosy life for those working people who had no special skills.
And, of course, throughout the world today and through history, those on the wrong end of the bell curve who simply rotted, starved and wasted away did so solely because of their lack of initiative and the awful, dragging weight of those pesky governments riding on their backs.
Or maybe not.
If you reread my initial two posts addressing the problems of long term unemployment and why it is that people with a historically decent standard of living might feel unhappy based on their relative wealth and productivity status, I think you'll see that the discussion has taken a right turn. I'd find it interesting to discuss the possibility of changing normal work week hours and upping minimum wages in order to employ more people to share the same units of required work and thereby pass some of the "new" technological wealth back downhill, but this is morphing into some kind of existential discussion about freedom, nanny governments and how many people you could personally employ if the gov got off your back, and that's too far from my original point to pique my interest.
I do, and always have, enjoyed your active mind and your entertaining writing style but I think I'll exit stage left now. Ed |
