TheHouseholdCat wrote:
But Socialism is not about voluntary work. It is about being able to work under humane conditions. And, personally, I think it's also about having the knowledge that your work is valuable for the society you live in. And that you work will not replaced by a machine in ten year's time and you have to look for another job.
There's dissonance though between what's desired in theory and what really tends to happen though. It seems like countries with little unskilled immigration and high levels of individual education do well with it, others do awful. You almost need to break poverty and break the habits of poverty before you can have a system like that float. It seems as well that the more jobs that are available the more the employers have to compete for labor and the better the terms and conditions are for the employees; doing things that help the economy help businesses hire and also put them in a position where if they have crap work conditions that people will vote with their feet.
TheHouseholdCat wrote:
I think it's perverse that people say, "There is not enough work", even though many many many things need to be worked on. There's just no employer who could afford to employ you. ^^ Because "there is not enough money".
What do you even do about that though? We have trade on a global level, it seems like money has been a way of keeping track of efficiency but I'm not sure how we'd ever conduct trade if we made those numbers up out of whole cloth internally and essentially did away with any kind of currency. Credit seems cyclical as well where you have credit bubbles, those bubbles burst, things are hard for a while, then the amount of credit stars increasing, and it cycles like that ad infinitum; if government tampers with that the best they can do is speed the rupture of the next bubble in the case where we have currency and in the case where we don't have a currency, what on earth do we do in lieu of that?
Unfortunately we don't have any easy answers and it seems like we don't have nearly the technology that we'd need for a proper welfare state that can balance its budget unless we're dealing with, as I'd mentioned before, a rather highly educated and less plural society which could be fine for some countries but it would fail miserably for others.
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