In this new era with only enough jobs for half the population for the next 50 yrs should we cut

[CK_John]

the school system in half?

Or should we change the school system to a dual system, one for tech job prep and one for creative day care.

Technology has replaced half the labor force and it may take 100 yrs to adapt, acknowledgment is the first step to solutions.

[Egalitarian Thug]

1. No. How about cutting our definition of full time employment in half? We already have

a dual education system, one for the people that matter and one for the rest, and that's been a disaster.

[CK_John]

2. We need Soc Sec to be age 50 for all. We've already cut wages in half.

[Egalitarian Thug]

5. I think that would help in the short term. n/t

[dimbear]

3. Do just what we're doing--put education on line and make it dirt cheap.

Electronic textbooks, never set foot on campus before exams. Total college education costs a few grand.

Wave of the future. Sorry, sororities and fraternities.

[HiPointDem]

9. wow that would really help the unemployment problem

[hunter]

4. Triple the minimum wage and make it a felony for anyone to work more than 24 hours a week

I'm sort of serious here.

Our "productivity" is going to kill us, and just as bad, people who make the lowest wages see no benefit from it. The profits all go to the very wealthy.

[Egalitarian Thug]

6. Well we've spent the last 200 years developing labor saving devices, we just forgot

why we were making all those innovations and allowed the parasite class to reap all the benefit.

[CK_John]

7. Your rage is understandable but it sounds like a buggy maker complaining... the world is what it is

and we need to learn to deal with it.

[HiPointDem]

10. & your post sounds like a libertarian talking point. 'buggy-maker' lol. 1 billion hits on google

for the same talking point, birthed at the cato institute.

[Egalitarian Thug]

11. No rage here, just accurate observation. I'm white, well educated, personable, not entirely dim,

not bad looking, possess a wide range of salable knowledge, experience, skills, and talents, I'll be just fine. In fact, all I have to do to be much better than fine is to stop seeing the world around me and succumb to the authoritarian BS you seem to have so thoroughly embraced.

I've just always wanted to help the people that always get the shitty end of the stick by giving them what they need to have a better life. Usually all they need is an understanding of how things actually are, rather than how they've been told and believe it is.

[ArcticFox]

12. that's what I've been thinking too.

We need a way to pass on the benefits of productivity gains to those not at the top.

[kentuck]

8. The government should cut hours worked

By cutting hours, they can create more jobs. How?

Cut the work week to 35 hours per week. Overtime for anything over 35 hours. Cutting 5 hours off the normal work week would be like cutting 1 out of every 8 workers. However, by cutting hours, if employers wanted the same production they got with 40 hours per week, they would have to hire more people, ideally it would be one person for every seven people now working? However, we know that would not happen. First of all, employers would attempt to squeeze that lost production out of the other seven workers. Unfortunately, one cannot get blood out of a turnip whenever people are squeezed to the max already. They can give no more.

How would we cope with the lost wages? Would not a substantial increase in the minimum wage drive up the wages of all workers? But it would take a Democratic Congress to pass something like that. But not just any Democratic Congress, it would take a progressive-minded Democratic Congress.