The only solution to the jobs problem is to halt automation! So who going to support that

[daredtowork]

39. We need to change the focus from the system to the people

We are always looking at how to win at "competition" and "the economy" and bailing out big businesses in order to preserve the capitalist system. That's why we'd rather give millions to a guy who is already rich than help a family starving on welfare. The millionaire is (ostensibly) making the system go, while the family is a loose cog that fell off that wheel. That no longer even fits in the wheel. The problem is that the rapid pace of technological change means that wheel is always changing shape, so government "services" (training, resume polishing) can't fit those cogs in fast enough anymore.

There has to be a way to (slowly) rebuild the economy around people having jobs - so they automatically continue to receive their livelihood income and smoothly get retrained to do whatever is needed - rather than catering to the system itself. IMHO we should somehow try to discourage specialist job descriptions: that's one of the drivers of economic inequality. Instead have very broad educational categories: "Science", "Humanties", etc. People should be considered qualified to do any job within those categories. Instead of being laid off, workers should be traded/moved to other companies. Emphasis should be placed on society keeping the productivity/value of the worker, not the benefit of a particular capitalist.

If people can be billed continuously for rent/mortgage, student loans, child care, elder care, etc. then they should be able to DEMAND a continuous, regular source of income throughout their lives. I'm sure I'm a commie heretic for thinking my generation was betrayed by being subjected to regular work "gaps" and savings depletions that made it impossible to match all the rent-seeking demands. But it's my firm belief that the two sides need to be balanced with stability of livelihood for the individual so they will be able to shell out for all the rent-seekers throughout their lives.