Dear L.,
I like your message!(see below) Yes, there is an infinite amount of work to do. The problem is that much of the work we have neglected is the work that does not pay. Investment in infrastructure doen't pay. (Well, the contractor may get rich... But, government that pays makes no profit.) It doesn't pay, that' s why unearned income will be the key to getting the unpaid work work of love done. I'm glad my mom wasn't a hooker/day-care/for money/etc... For sale.
I did say very clearly ...scarce relative to resources. Caring for old/young etc. it not a high consumption activity, and it is an economic cost to be avoided in the market system; not paid. It doesn't rip off mother nature, so no real profit. The work of stewardship and the work of love is the work that we can catch up of when we have unearned income!
Barry Brooks
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Do we really have a labor surplus? Our roads need fixing, our schools need
rebuilding, there is a health care professional shortage, a child care
provider shortage, thousands of children need foster care, we need drug
alcohol treatment centers, we need to replant the forests, we must clean up
pollution, we need to build housing, develop and test vaccines, provide
health eduction, we need organically grown food, etc. There is plenty of
labor that needs to be done. We must make those that have the gold expend
the resources to pay for the work to be done. We must quit spending the
money on B1 bombers, "smart bombs", prisons, and the "war on drugs" , etc.
