Forun /discuss

"The rewards will end up going to a vested class of administrators who run those supposed "job creation" programs."

As opposed to the vested class of capitalists who run the current supposed "job creation" programs.

All of which currently oversupplies luxury fripperies to the wealthy while failing to supply sufficient needs to the less well off. Hence homelessness, poverty, unemployment, lack of business investment and poor productivity. All while constantly creating financial bubbles that blow up the world for decades, and generating pointless 'make-work' jobs in the pension, PR, advertising and marketing industries.

It's all the same really.

It's very simple. Creating jobs and matching people to them runs out of matching capacity very quickly - particularly as productivity improves with robotic technology. Increasingly the private sector needs brain surgeons and most people are simply not capable of being brain surgeons.

Eventually you have to take the people as they are and create jobs for them. Because they need something to do with their time.

You have to have a mixed system. The nuclear engine of capitalism has to be contained in an appropriate containment vessel to stop it creating damage to the environment.

Nowhere has tried the Job Guarantee, because no system has ever tried to create specific jobs for the people that need them. All other systems have been designed as punishments rather than social care to deal with the reality of capitalism that it is systematically incapable of employment everyone.