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the qualifier of a good job is the ability to be self sufficient correct? I'd argue that there is no limit to the amount of services a population our size has, we need plenty of people to do all kinds of work the problem is there's no one to pay them to do the work.

 

You often hear politicians argue that we can't fund infrastructure, we don't have enough teachers, and so on, the problem is right now those fields are funded through tax payers. In a "free market" where infrastructure for example is privatized you'd have a plethora of jobs for low skilled or no skilled workers. Sure the companies would look to pay as little as possible but the free market doesn't prevent unions from forming, or some form of labor to represent workers, there are natural ways to increase wages.

 

Anything that is federally funded right now is severally under employed simply because the tax revenue is not there to pay for it. So I'd have to disagree about there not being enough work, there's plenty of work to be done.

 

As for the argument about low paying jobs, yes there will always be low paying jobs. Mostly in the service industry, restaurants, delivery drivers, retail, these jobs have always paid very low wages ( I know I've worked just about all of them). But if more people owned a restaurant rather than working at a restaurant their standard of living would increase. If you had more mom and pop merchandising stores and less walmarts, kmarts, targets you'd have higher wages and an increase in the standard of living. Business isn't the enemy, it's when Big Business and Government work together to end competition.

I'll give you this point. Big business and gov in collusion is a major problem. I fail to see how you think removing regulation (good ones not influenced by the corps they intend to reign in) would stir competition. Big business would remain only now there would be no token resistance and competition would be crushed or bought out. I don't see how a completely free market would allow mom and pops to thrive.

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