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In response to "I think that infrastructure (similar to FDR) would still benefit from unskilled labor" by JD

Consider the amount of technological progress over the past 75 years, though

Posted by znufrii, silly old man (aka znufrii) May 22 '20, 09:57

building roads doesn't just involve a lot of guys with shovels and pickaxes anymore.

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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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