&gt;2008 was a wasted opportunity to combine much needed infrastructure investment with fiscal stimulus.<p>Yeah, but that would raise employment and, by extension, wages, which American business elites don&#x27;t want.<p>They&#x27;d rather keep half heartedly talking about basic income and some techno utopian magic robotic future for the next 50 years rather than support restarting the Public Works Administration and providing a decent job guarantees again to do actual needed work like this.