Jeff Bezos tweet seeking philanthropic ideas draws 42,000 replies
Bring back the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) concept and significantly over-pay the employees on the condition half goes into savings accounts for family use or to pay down debts of some sort. Employ it as a method to give uneducated (HS degree) or underemployed (able bodied with Bachelors and $8&#x2F;hr job), rehabilitate and early-release incarcerated US Citizens and put them to work in infrastructure needs.<p>So, this way we address numerous factors: 1) The large uneducated mass of young people excluded from the workforce or otherwise drowning in college debt, 2) Work to reduce the prison population and actually rehabilitate people with worthwhile skills (metallurgy, equipment, etc), and 3) Fix the crumbling, pot-hole riddled, creaking, aging US infrastructure in probably record time.<p>Yes it will cost a fuck-ton of money but because these low-level employees will have money to spend, the wheels of US Consumerist economy will be able to pick up. Former students in the program could pay down debt AND save for after they&#x27;re released from the program commitment.<p>Poor people are poor because they spend. The US wealth gap is so distorted the rich have choked this system. They sit on piles of assets and spend very little by comparison, even if it&#x27;s millions of dollars per year. These are economic realities that Bezos is part of causing to be an issue.<p>It&#x27;s almost as if Amazon&#x27;s business model isn&#x27;t viable without the public infrastructure that is now in desperate need of investment. Hm.