"The Iraq War destroyed much of Iraq's coastline, polluted its waters, and drove many species of animals to near extinction, which in turn had serious effects on the lives of Iraqis. Anyway, great book."
I wish FDR's New Deal Civil Conservation Corps didn't get derailed by the war. A labour army where you build infrastructure as a job corps is a good idea that I don't have any particular issue with. It was poised to become that.
capitalism just stopped trying after the cold war. When the Soviet union was building wonders and sending Yuri Gagarin to space capitalist America had to build and make technology that liberated people from shackles of domestic labor.
It drives me insane that we don't do something like that today. You don't even have to push the communism button to accomplish this, just create a program that says hey if you join we'll give you $75k/year to repair bridges and sort recyclables.
Americorps technically does the same thing but with nowhere near the funding or scale. It's basically a public trade school focused on marginalised 18-25 year-olds. If it were expanded out to all ages and gave similar 4-year degree options to the military, it'd be much better.
>The U.S. Military Emits More Carbon Dioxide Into the Atmosphere Than Entire Countries Like Denmark or Portugal
I don't know what's worse crypto mining or U.S. Military. Ig MIC does create jobs in the U.S. on the other hand crypto doesn't directly kill people.
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"The Iraq War destroyed much of Iraq's coastline, polluted its waters, and drove many species of animals to near extinction, which in turn had serious effects on the lives of Iraqis. Anyway, great book."
The Americans are just dumb the Chinese are capable of using their military as a means of resolving unemployment without going to war all the time.
just don't go to war and employ millions to do parades and other stupid nonsense. Americans love parades its a no brainer
I wish FDR's New Deal Civil Conservation Corps didn't get derailed by the war. A labour army where you build infrastructure as a job corps is a good idea that I don't have any particular issue with. It was poised to become that.
capitalism just stopped trying after the cold war. When the Soviet union was building wonders and sending Yuri Gagarin to space capitalist America had to build and make technology that liberated people from shackles of domestic labor.
Now there is no Soviet union we have NFTS
It drives me insane that we don't do something like that today. You don't even have to push the communism button to accomplish this, just create a program that says hey if you join we'll give you $75k/year to repair bridges and sort recyclables.
Americorps technically does the same thing but with nowhere near the funding or scale. It's basically a public trade school focused on marginalised 18-25 year-olds. If it were expanded out to all ages and gave similar 4-year degree options to the military, it'd be much better.
Americorps js the best we’ve got, and they do a lot of good work while minimizing labor costs
Americorps is the America's largest scab agency
I did a couple terms of Americorps. We were basically paraeducators, but without any sort of licensing or training and paid about 12k a year.
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Wow, suggesting indentured servitude are we?
Nothing so extreme, just an extensive American gulag system.
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We use prison labor for the farming.
It’s a more efficient system for lower margin industries where labor costs could hurt their profitability. Their labor pays their debt to society
Shouldn’t the products be free then? As it’s only helping the CEO as is.
It’s commodities. The price is determined by the free market. Of course with some public policy to influence supply and demand
A strategic goal of the American military is combatting climate change tho. That’s not true for crypto. Offsets the emissions tbh