Wait. A new deal you say? To get us out of our great depression stagflation?
If only we knew how that turned out historically. 🤔
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DagwoodIII@piefed.social 3 days ago
Or we could raise taxes on the rich and do the infrastructure rebuild that’s been needed for decades.
There’s a decade’s worth of blue collar pick and shovel work needed.
Rooster326@programming.dev 3 days ago
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 days ago
According to folks on the Right, the New Deal’s spending actually prolonged the Depression. It was only much vaster government spending for WW2 that ended the Depression.
PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 3 days ago
Not to mention working on saving the oceans, cleaning up all the PFAS, reducing the impact of global warming, all this stuff. There is an absolute shitload of work that needs to be done that needs a massive amount of effort and manpower. This idea “well how are we going to create jobs when AI can do everything and we have enough web marketers I guess” is looking at the working world through the entirely wrong lens.