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greycloud ago

governments can form new jobs, we should be having humans going through forests and taking out dried stuff on the ground that makes it susceptible to forest fires. we should be having more fish hatcheries to resupply the oceans with fish. we should have humans working on creating devices that reduce the acidity of the ocean, to take carbon out of the air, and we should be working on all types of similar environmental aids. the unemployed could be the federal employed, and their work is to benefit the infrastructure on which other businesses are built. we should be working to make the world a better place for everyone, there is no economic demand to do so, so have the government do it.

we also need more teachers and scientists. why have one teacher for 30 students? why not have 1 teacher per 6 students? why not have more scientists working on theories, have more people replicating scientific studies to make sure they aren't bullshit? we need more peers for the peer review process, we need more people with more ideas so that further innovation is faster. we need people working on solutions to big problems, like terraforming new worlds, and exploiting resources outside of earth.

we also need less people. perhaps we can figure out some eugenics method that would allow for population decline in a fashion that is acceptable to the masses. we should be trying to improve the human race as a whole, and we need to start prepping some of our people to be able to survive and thrive in a low gravity environment so they can ride ships to new stars and new planets.

capitalism is being killed, not employment. there is always things that need to be done.

pitenius ago

we should be having humans going through forests and taking out dried stuff on the ground that makes it susceptible to forest fires.

Really.

we should be having more fish hatcheries to resupply the oceans with fish.

Sure.

we also need more teachers and scientists.

Really?

we also need less people. perhaps we can figure out some eugenics method that would allow for population decline in a fashion that is acceptable to the masses.

You first.

greycloud ago

agreed, me first. i have no children, and i will not be having children. i practice what i preach. i want the world to be a better place, and i know that this starts with me.

pitenius ago

I invite you to reduce your carbon footprint to zero. This may improve the world through the elimination of naive ideas. Your suggestions read like a laundry-list of the Lisa Simpson-esque ideas that are popular among statists and generally opposed by conspiracy theorists. I don't know you, but I strongly disagree with you to the point that I think we may be at loggerheads.

Personally, I'd rather see farm wages skyrocket. The denigration of agricultural labor has been the worst achievement of modernization.

greycloud ago

i take actions to reduce my carbon footprint but am in no position to be able to thrive while having a 0 carbon footprint. perhaps i should go plant some apple trees, it meets multiple objectives of mine.

pitenius ago

You don't need to thrive. That doesn't particularly help the collective, comrade. Stop being a narcissist.