A lot of people say we need to create jobs to improve the economy. If creating jobs will help the economy, I know a way to create millions of jobs. First, we can hire people to dig ditches with spoons. Mechanized diggers are too efficient and take away jobs. We could also have the million richest people in the country each hire a butt wiper. This would easily create a million more jobs. If the unemployment rate is still above 0%, we could have people sweep the streets, have farmers plant and maintain crops by hand, and replace other jobs that are done too efficiently. Ok, I was joking about all of that. Politicians want to create jobs, but are those jobs really worth there value? The answer for most of the "created jobs" is no. I believe about 50% of jobs are worthless, and it could be a lot higher than that. Think of all the places that transfer money around or deal with money in some way. Are you producing any benefit to society by moving money from one place to another, especially when that is probably half of all jobs? How many government workers do we have that are auditors or do paperwork for social security and other things, etc. where there jobs just transfer money from one place to another and either shuffle papers around or deal with paperwork that is always a 100X longer than it needs to be. Why do businesses need so many managers and customer service people? There are also a bunch of office jobs that do worthless studies, marketing, advertising, etc. For example, I work for a company who does surveys for clients over the phone. One of these clients is a bank and they recently added a service charge. Of course, the people we do surveys with are going to be pissed about a service charge. If the bank saved their money and didn't do these stupid surveys that ask stupid questions that the bank should already know, maybe they'd have enough money to stop having a service charge. Another good example of worthless jobs is that my school has 10 special education teachers out of about 25-30 total, and there are 400 students total. There are only about 20-30 kids in these special education classes, and only about 5 of them really need to be in there. The other kids do not care about their grades, so why spend so much time on them? There are a lot of other teaching jobs that are pointless, and most teachers get paid way too much. We also need to get rid of most liberal arts classes that won't help you get a job. The majority of these pointless jobs is in white collar work, but there is also a lot in other areas as well. It would be pretty easy to cut back on about 50% of the jobs that are out there. Then, you could pay someone 2x as much at a real job for the same amount of work. What would be better is cutting down the work week to around 20 hours and paying people as if they had worked 40. Then, the unemployment rate remains the same or could even drop if done right. Basically, we need to cut back on jobs that transfer wealth and make jobs that create wealth such as engineering, technology, and science. Jobs in and of themselves aren't important at all. It is what you do with those jobs that counts.
Creating millions more jobs is very simple. By switching over to the two real alternative almost untouched energy sources in nature, geothermical energy and tidal energy, this will cause lots of new technology (electric cars finally, after almost two centuries since its first invention in 1834), new branches in industry, this energy also causes a very stable world, no more wars for oil, no more oil spils as well. This system does not like these clean and green energy sources because the power is based on oil mainly (you will not hear any politican ever talk about these for most people still unknown energy sources) If oil disappears lots will change to the better, this is the change the world needs. If this system creates jobs that are jobs in their advantage, to gain power, for example, animal cops, traffic controllers.
I agree that your special ed. teachers have failed you. I doubt that 50% of jobs are worthless and firing people that have unless jobs only creates more votes for the dems and Obama. Let's hold off on that until we have a Republican President. Xanadu, we will always need oil to manufacture the many products that we make from oil but I agree that we should formulate a national strategy to switch to "Blue Energy" as soon as possible. We could switch to hydrogen in twenty years and move it around the country in natural gas pipe lines. It looks like we are going to have tons of natural gas for many decades so the push to base our transportation needs on natural gas will likely win the day in the next couple of years. In any case we should be laying new pipe lines all over the country and if the environmental Nazis get in the way of the pipe lines use them for back fill.
I live in Nebraska. How much geothermal energy can be produced there? How many tides are there in the middle of the U.S. How expensive are these sources of energy going to be? From what I've read, these are both more expensive than other energy sources. This means the jobs created from these sources would be like paying people to dig ditches with spoons. The problem with renewables is they rely on rising fossil fuel prices to work. Energy is one area where we can not accept higher prices, because it affects everything. We will just be going backwards if we rely on expensive renewable energy sources.
You are blaming me because people are stupid enough to vote for bad leaders? There is probably a lot more than 50% of jobs that are worthless or that aren't very efficient.
