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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I don't know what else to say without being repetitive, I agree with Markimus' stuff the most, but I'd also put emphasis on social stuff which are more visible in day to day lives.

That includes:

  • reformed voting system, would be digital and you could vote every day, if public official reaches certain treshold, he's out
  • renewing the infrastructure, like train tracks
  • nationalization of some services which are objectively public good (bus companies, telecoms)
  • organize national competitions for various sports competitions at amateur level and invest in health propaganda more
  • pro-natal policies similar to what NS Germany has (all debt paid off after Xth child)
  • government-owned payment system, alternative to PayPal
  • every worker has guaranteed three days off, he chooses to use them as he wishes
  • promotion of high culture

[–]NeoRail[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Interesting. I don't get to hear about three day weekends very often.

[–]douglas_waltersWhite Supremacist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This mirrors argumentation found in Thomson's 'The Coming Corporate State':

The effect of solving the problem of abundance and finding means for the distribution of plenty will be a temporary solution of the unemployment problem. But as Science endows us with ever-increasing powers of production, we are bound to be faced once more with a superfluity of labour, as the machine displaces man. In a properly organised state this will not involve any return to the scourge of unemployment, for a superfluity of labour will be met by shortened hours, lengthened education and earlier retirement. The problem of unemployment becomes transformed into a problem of leisure.