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Your Submission:
Why are we so obsessed with the horrors of unemployment?
Wouldn't 75 % unemployment be wonderful if 25% of us could do all the needed work?
In a speech at the University of Santa Barbara sometime in the late "70s I heard Buckminster Fuller, one of the world's great thinkers, say he thought 2 to 3% of the American public were competitive workaholics who could and would design and produce efficient automatic machinery that would significantly multiply the output of goods and services of American workers if the workaholics were provided with free raw materials and basic machine tools
Fuller went on to say (I am paraphrasing), "If the government focused on providing those workaholics with free tools and raw materials, the workaholics could and would produce everything the rest of us need for food, clothing and shelter."
He summed up by saying (again, I am paraphrasing) "If 10% of us
handled the storing, packaging and delivery of the goods produced, and
another 10% handled the record keeping regarding what was
needed
where -- all the "work' of our country could be handled by about 25% of
us -- while the rest of us were delightfully unemployed and free to do
whatever we wanted to."
Consider this http://www.primeronmoney.com/horsepowerinusa.html where we point out that In 1985 there was 100 times more horsepower available / person than there was in 1900.
Given that increase in horsepower available, why is it that most families now need 2 breadwinners while in 1900 most families had only one? You would think we would be down to one part-time workplace employee / family.
Is it simply a matter of managing our assets more efficiently?
I think so.
Martin R. Carbone
Read this for more on the subject / We must be dimwitted to allow this thinking to continue.
