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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

A recession is basically only those jobs hiring. Its the opposite of a bubble where because nobody has spare money nobody is spending so nobody is hiring and everything is undervalued. That's why the only solution to the great depression was to hire a ton of people to do something.

The stuff the ccc did was awesome, they preserved huge chunks of America's cultural heritage, made beautiful things, and made lots of natural beauty available to the masses. Go to any national park that existed at the time and you'll see it. But they existed to take the masses of itinerant labor and put them to work for reasonable wages. It kickstarted the economy, fed people and gave them money to send to their family, and ensured that skilled labor remained as such.

Straight up, that's probably going to be what this takes to get out of. A green new deal. Not the bullshit one we had proposed. Not the infrastructure act. No, hiring a fuck ton of young people to lay high speed rail lines and build solar and wind farms and battery facilities at wages that will let them reproduce and restart their local economies.

Only a government can do that. A company would pay market rates and expect a reasonable profit. A government can tax hoarded wealth, seize assets, and generally compel the behavior that gets you out of that mess.