Yesterday, we looked at some of the ways people have been kept off the streets. Governments have used Public Works Projects from the Tower of Bable, the pyramids, Roman Roads, and the Great Wall of China to keep people off the streets.
People have been dragooned into digging endless canals, building countless castles, and constructing immense capitols. The more advanced,and formerly Catholic/Christian nations use paid labor, rather than slaves, to keep people off the streets with construction projects.
Between 200 and 1600 AD, many Europeans were kept off the streets by monasteries and convents. There, over a thousand years of the finest people in every Catholic nation prayed, worked, and grew closer to God. They farmed, and provided the first written word since the fall of Rome.
At the same time, Catholic morality kept the huge numbers of illegitimate children off the streets.
In the centuries after Evil Luther and Henry Big Pig began shattering Catholicism, the Catholic system largely was destroyed by corrupt governments. Leaders confiscated the Church property and doled it out to bribe supporters.
Automation allows Public Works to be provided by few people and bigger machines. Using countless men and women with shovels and hand tools is so obviously inefficient it can’t be allowed in democracies. Today, the formerly Catholic and Christian nations keep people off the street with unbelievably incompetent systems of “public” education.
The more poorly that children are educated, the longer they can be kept in school and off the streets. So, high school graduates today have to take remedial reading and arithmetic classes when they go to college. Their grandparents learned Latin, Greek, and calculus before graduating from high school. Now, children can be kept in school for 20-25 years in order to be “certified” to do something that a high school dropout from earlier generations could do better.
Draconian drug laws keep people off the street. Such laws keep drug prices extraordinarily high. So, drug-dealing is the only way for the uneducated to make money. Drugs justify huge staffs of police, prosecutors, wardens, guards, and “law enforcement” people who don’t realize they,themselves, are simply being kept off the streets. They are used to keep even more addicts and dealers off the street by putting them in jail. More and more jails are being built to hold the results of governments that focus more on keeping bodies in jail than in getting souls to Heaven.
High expenses cause excessive tax rates. Taxes increase because governments think they need to keep more people, often including their own, highly paid employees off the street. Those expenses can be reduced with simple fixes.
Every fix, however, puts people on the street. Can’t have that, can we?
