Re:The unnecessary demise of Barnes and Noble
by mjevans on Friday February 16, 2018 @11:52AM
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Then make the job one that enriches lives. "Entertainment" comes to mind as today's best example (acting, sports trainers, players, etc).
However that comes to my mind because what I really think that the job should be is a more general category of 'problem solver' and right now society is really bad about making it easy for people to make good choices and have positive impacts.
What if the economy evolves in such a way that most people are unproductive?
What if the cost of creating a job (creating a jobs bureaucracy, administering it by assigning jobs to people, making sure they show up to work, etc.) is actually higher than the economic value that those jobs generate?
In that case, 'jobs for all' would just be a subsidy, or UBI, with many more steps, no?
I agree that giving people a share of the means of production makes sense. We should experiment with granting a share of equity to all citizens and sitting an equity floor.