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Re:Techies Are the New Puritans by aaronem on Thursday December 12, 2013 @02:27PM (#6896467)
Well, just off the top of my head, something like a new WPA seems like it'd be a decent start, considering the infrastructure maintenance problems I keep hearing about. Is that "workfare"? I've heard "workfare" is bad, although again I'm not really sure why.
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Re:Techies Are the New Puritans by DerpDerpDerp on Thursday December 12, 2013 @03:06PM (#6896797)
I have no objections to WPA-style programs, and think that likely would be a good solution. Heck, it worked once before.

The problem is that in addition to having let our infrastructure decay, we've let our social infrastructure decay.

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Re:Techies Are the New Puritans by aaronem on Thursday December 12, 2013 @04:17PM (#6897350)
That's no more an obstacle today than it was in 1935; the original WPA was an emergency measure, just as our notional revival would be.
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