An Idea for the Economy that will Freak Out a lot of People
Jobs are a means not an end. I've never worked at a job to work at a job. I work at a job to provide for my family and for my other goals in life.<p>This sort of top down thinking is just toxic. It seems so great and tidy until you actually try to implement it and then you realize that your level of ignorance was greater than you could have possibly imagined. You can't solve a debt problem with more debt and you can't solve a jobs problem by just creating meaningless jobs. The only jobs that are sustainable are the jobs that produce something that other people actually want.<p>The whole idea of the price system is that we're given signals about the best ways to serve other people in society. The price system in financial and real estate markets is completely insane and basically non-functioning. We're all suffering with these zombie banks we've created for ourselves.<p>The real question shouldn't be how to create jobs but rather how to create a society where needs can be met by entrepreneurs and businesses.  We've all seen that when people are having their needs met then jobs end up being created by the businesses that form in the process of meeting those needs.