[grayhog]

Brilliant!! And we should ban bulldozers because we’ll need at least 50 people with shovels to do thevwork of one bulldozer! He is on to something big here (though maybe Marx and Pol Pot thought of it first)

[denydenydeny]

And we should ban bulldozers because we’ll need at least 50 people with shovels to do the work of one bulldozer! He is on to something big here (though maybe Marx and Pol Pot thought of it first)

This is really the heart of it. Pharaohnic Egypt was a full-employment economy, as are Pol Pot Cambodia and the Kim family's North Korea in our own day. Similarly, the cotton gin destroyed thousands of full-time slave jobs.

[Callahan]

Brilliant!! And we should ban bulldozers because we’ll need at least 50 people with shovels to do thevwork of one bulldozer! He is on to something big here (though maybe Marx and Pol Pot thought of it first)

Yeah but think of all the people you are putting out of work by allowing companies to use those job-killing shovels. Hire 100 people to dig with their hands and 100 more to be shovel police/fingernail inspectors (proportionally adjusted by race, of course, to reflect our diverse society). Then Ellison might think you have a plan.