(November 8, 2014 at 1:03 pm)Heywood Wrote:(November 8, 2014 at 12:29 pm)Brian37 Wrote: The easiest way to get more of what you want is to invest more here, invest in better wages here. Billionaire Nick Hanauer has said that he does not create jobs. He has said that no business owner will hire someone unless demand forces them to. The bulk of society is made up by workers in the middle class and poor. The workers create the demand so when they do better business does better.
Creating jobs is easy. Make it a law that all public roads have to be built using only spoons and no heavy equipment. To build a freeway, you would have to employ hundreds of thousands of workers.
But jobs don't make people better off. Stuff makes people better off. Automation is making it so less people are needed to make the stuff we want. The inevitable situation I see coming is a necessity to redistribute the tools by which we exchange goods an services. That tool being money.
That redistribution is going to happen one way or another. They road we are on is one where there is a massive government bureaucracy controlling our lives. The one I would like to see is the elimination of government bureacucracy and the ragbag of government programs, safety nets,t etc...to be replaced by a simple universal basic income.
Nope. Sorry, you do not get to decide by yourself based on your own desires how political pluralism works. You either allow voting and accept when others get a shot at lawmaking otherwise you are merely advocating your own personal monopoly.
FYI the founders set up our Constitutional Republic as representative government. They knew eventually the population would grow, so the number of representatives would grow with it.
You are not going to convince me that less government works when those who have gained the most from it over the past 30 years have hurt workers and wages.
All you are advocating is "Government works only when I win".
We let business have most of the say and most of the power and it has abused that power.
