The Principles of Largescale Employment Projects – Part 1/2 (Repost)

The Principles of Largescale Employment Projects – Part 1/2 (Repost)

It doesn’t matter if what threatens our society is job-consuming automation or economy-crippling Coronavirus. When we go to reconstruct, we need to remember certain basic principles.

I was going to reproduce just one section of a two-part article I wrote on the subject in 1995, the section on “value is a function of agreement.”

I wanted to make the point that nuclear weapons, homes for the homeless, and a living wage for everyone are all ideas whose value consists in us bestowing it upon them.Value is not inherent in an action. An action has value because we say – and agree […]

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