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**NumsAmenniams** · 10-28-2008, 05:06 PM

Originally posted by Arrian

Ok, so finance people would have trouble finding jobs. Meanwhile, maybe a whole bunch of poor people would suddenly find themselves with available jobs that paid decently. Then, when the economy turns around (which it eventually will in any case), those $50k/year finance people would find jobs. Trick up economics.

I don't know if it would work... the economic effects of FDR's public works programs were unclear, IIRC. But, given that there does seem to be a need for infrastructure investment, I figure try it.

-Arrian Modern societies are incapable of New Deal like planning. People just don't think like that any more.

Take 1970 as your cut off date and look at the public projects done before and after it. The ones done before 1970 have for the most part a sense of optimism about them, and a conviction that public works can improve people's lives. The ones after are for the most part postmodern or utilitarian crap.

I still find it astonishing that more or less the same people who organized the moon landings now whine and ***** about miniscule increases in taxation to fund schools and public works.

Postmodern citizens lack virtue in every conceivable sense. Predictably, none of the Polytubbies who worship Nietzsche seem to have realized we are living in the age of the last man.

10-28-2008, 05:06 PM	#6
NumsAmenniams Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 532 Senior Member	Originally posted by Arrian Ok, so finance people would have trouble finding jobs. Meanwhile, maybe a whole bunch of poor people would suddenly find themselves with available jobs that paid decently. Then, when the economy turns around (which it eventually will in any case), those $50k/year finance people would find jobs. Trick up economics. I don't know if it would work... the economic effects of FDR's public works programs were unclear, IIRC. But, given that there does seem to be a need for infrastructure investment, I figure try it. -Arrian Modern societies are incapable of New Deal like planning. People just don't think like that any more. Take 1970 as your cut off date and look at the public projects done before and after it. The ones done before 1970 have for the most part a sense of optimism about them, and a conviction that public works can improve people's lives. The ones after are for the most part postmodern or utilitarian crap. I still find it astonishing that more or less the same people who organized the moon landings now whine and ***** about miniscule increases in taxation to fund schools and public works. Postmodern citizens lack virtue in every conceivable sense. Predictably, none of the Polytubbies who worship Nietzsche seem to have realized we are living in the age of the last man.
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