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In response to "In this day and age, though, is there even an industry that could benefit from the pool of unskilled labor that an FDR-style works program might generate? -- nm*" by znufrii, silly old man

I think that infrastructure (similar to FDR) would still benefit from unskilled labor

Posted by JD (aka Jason Dean) May 22 '20, 09:55

I could be underestimating the skill required for very necessary projects like working on our freeways and dams but at the same time wasn't the Hoover Dam built as a New Deal project

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Consider the amount of technological progress over the past 75 years, though - znufrii, silly old man May 22, 09:57 9
- I mean it could if you want a jobs program. -- nm - spamlet May 22, 10:06 2
  - Sure. We could hire people to dig holes and fill them back up again, if we want a jobs program just for jobs' sake. :) -- nm - znufrii, silly old man May 22, 10:08 1
    - I'd settle for just filling holes (potholes) which would be an incredible benefit and create a bunch of useful jobs -- nm - JD May 22, 10:11
- Though the maintenance kind of does? And I've yet to see a completely automated dam builder and Michigan just showed that those need work - JD May 22, 10:01 1
  - + truck drivers + the people working to produce the materials necessary -- nm - Reagen May 22, 10:04
- maybe not *as many*, but it's still manual labour of some stripe - Reagen May 22, 09:58 3
  - Right, it's a question of scale, not that there wouldn't be any work to be done. -- (edited) - znufrii, silly old man May 22, 10:03 2
    - There's a political question in there - Reagen May 22, 10:05 1
      - That's the flip side of it, yes. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man May 22, 10:06

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