>> There is a big difference between 80k jobs created by the government and 80k jobs created by the free market.
So let's start with the obvious - I was not trying to propose "big government" as a solution here, sorry if this was not clear enough - I completly agree that using government as a substitution for private ownership mostly does not work.
My main point was "power accumulation" in hands of few or even one. Elon Musk is good example here - his accumulated wealth give him real power to decide what life of thouseds of people will look like (for better or worse). You may claim that this is not politcal power, but it still is power nontheless. And thus lifes of thousends wages on his mental state which at any moment can go full Caligula.
I know this will sound idealistic .. but I do not like to live in a society where we leave so much power in hands of one individual. This also applies to politicians.
I know trying to solve this problem will probably throttle economic development but as lord Farquaad said "it's a Sacrifice I am Willing to Make" :).
>>Those 80,000 jobs may not have a social impact as far as moving the world in the a desired direction but what jobs do?
>>Does a plumber? A teacher? What if they are not teaching what the party in charge wants taught?
This sounds a bit nihilistic - extrapolating this line of though leads quite easyly to conclusion that nothing matters (and as Camus has written we are then only left with one important question to answer).
>> Are we going to put someone in charge of determining if a job has meaning and eradicate the job if they don't?
Aren't we already doing it with capitalism and statism? :) Or did I missed ChatGPT-XXX taking over the world already (I swear I was trying to pay attention :))?
But in all seriousness - I only propose limiting power of individualsm institutions and corporatios, not giving it to government.
>> What happens when a different political party wins election and starts eliminating positions that the prior party thought had meaning?
And what do you think happes when new CEO takes over company? Because I have seen far worse cleanings done through corporations that were taken over by competition than the biggest governments cleanigs of institutions done by new party taking over government (I happen to have some inside access to local govermants organizational data and know some people that worked for big companies that were raided).
>> Hitler was able to do what he did because the government had so much power.
Still the underling problem is power accumulation - governmant from my point of view was only means to obtaining it. I believe that we are living in times when new doors opened for power accumulation that will grant some individuals almost comparable power. And I would gladly sacrifice parts of economic development potential to do that.