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Let's explore this,

 

the qualifier of a good job is the ability to be self sufficient correct? Where does this idea come from for you?


 

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. In nations without worker protections unionizers get killed regularly by large employers. The free market does not deliver remediation for this problem. Furthermore the real problem we have is one of supply and demand. The supply of jobs for low skill workers is decreasing as manufacturing and call center jobs have been outsourced and the demand for low skill jobs that still exist has increased, creating a dramatic downward pressure on the wages and working conditions for those jobs. That problem doesn't get fixed without either a major change in the supply of workers, jobs, or a change in regulation.


 

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. This is easy to fix. Raise taxes, dramatically.


 

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. Brilliant! Everyone can just own their own business! That's sure to work out great!

 

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 How would you qualify a job good or bad if it's not based upon the ability to be self sufficient?

 

 yes if more people owned small private business's we wouldn't have the majority of the problems we have right now, why is that controversial?

 

Quote:Lol.... you can't really think thsi is possible, can you? The belief the utopia is possible is one of the most annoying things that the libertarian party presents.

 

Possible sure, likely no. Just because it's not likely to happen doesn't mean I'll stop advocating it. Sometimes things have to get a lot worse before they get better, I fully believe we will see things get a lot worse here before we turn the corner. 

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