[jjsheridan5]

Even bringing back Civilian Conservation Corps would be much better. If you have people too unmotivated to find a real job, create a government job moving dirt from one place to another, or picking up trash, rather than just sending them a welfare check.

This is the equivalent of yelling at the sun telling it not to rise in the east anymore. Throughout all of human history, people, especially men, have been better off with work, than without work, for both personal and practical reasons. Whether we like it or not, we are going to have to adjust to a world in which this is not realistic, and where people are going to have to find purpose and value in life outside of their "labor". It won't be painless, but you cannot think that having 49.5% of the population digging ditches, and 49.5% filling them in again, is either plausible or desirable.

[Pollster1]

Throughout all of human history, people, especially men, have been better off with work . . . you cannot think that having 49.5% of the population digging ditches, and 49.5% filling them in again, is either plausible or desirable.

We agree that people are better off with work. I don't think make-work is desirable, but it's a whole lot better than paying them to be parasitic. I'd rather see people develop skill as entertainers, as artists, in massage, or as something else productive that robots cannot do as well.

Our standard of living now is so much higher than it was 200 years ago because of machines. Rather than saying "well, a machine can make furniture, firearms, and fabric and do farm work so much better, so I'll sit at home on welfare instead of doing those jobs", the people displaced from those occupations found work that didn't exist before. We can do the same again; it just takes motivation.