As automation and centralization continue, more private-sector jobs are lost. Where there were twenty banks, there is now one. The same employment reductions exist in every private-sector field of endeavor. Demands to “Do something!” echo through legislatures.
The jobs lost because of efficiencies are restored by making things less efficient. A handful of workers in one atomic power plant can provide all the power needed for light, heat, manufacturing, and transportation in an entire state. Not one nuclear plant, for instance, has been built in the past thirty years, and there’s a desire to dismantle the existing ones.
An army of “green workers” has been proposed. These useless jobs are designed to solve imaginary problems, and will keep a few hundred thousand people employed. They will be doing, essentially, nothing. Costs will continue to escalate, our money will be further devalued, and we will all be poorer.
As they destroy those around them, they will be convinced that they are “fixing” the economy.
