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In reply to the discussion: We romanticize manufacturing jobs when what we really miss are unions. [View all]PufPuf23
(8,767 posts)is no longer necessary because of mechanization and efficiency.
Managers and capitalists still look to maximize profit and management complexity by minimizing labor.
The social problem is then how to distribute income and wealth to the unemployed and under employed.
Some vanity stars would send excess folks off to war or let the "useless eaters" effectively live a stark life and die prematurely.
The obvious way around the social problem of lack of "good" jobs is a guarantee of comfortable income, health care, child care, education, shelter, freedom of movement, healthy environment, retirement, etc.; a guarantee to be part of society itself.
The nation (and world) has the resources and creativity but not the will nor empathy
Unions once solved the social problem of fair compensation and still do to a lesser extent.
No one asks to be born. Once born a life worth living seems warranted and possible for nearly all to have.