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Joe:
Subject: Re: QUESTION: Is acting to offer "meaningful work" a proper role of government?
I answer the question with other questions.
* What if there NO work for anyone? Can we imagine existence in our western world WITHOUT work, or the concept of work?
* What is meaningful work?
* Is the meaningfulness of work the same to all those who work, or want to work?
* Must one work in order to have a meaningful life?
* In the 21st C. and beyond, when robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) threaten to replace workers in the workplace as we know it, what might be left to classify as meaningful work?"
* And what next after (AI). But who creates (AI)? Mankind, or (AI) itself???
* Does "...acting to offer..." mean encouraging private sector employers to "offer" work?
*"... proper role.." How is that phrase being defined such that there is a common understanding for all?
* is it a government's role at all to act to "offer meaningful work?"
* aside from civil servants ( bureaucrats) who assist elected representatives -- the government-- carry out 'governance,
can a government provide work for anyone?
* what does government of, by, and for the people mean in a western democratic populace?
WHAT ABOUT Jeremy Bentham's (1748--1832), James Mill's (1773--1836), and John Suart Mill's Utilitarianism?
[ Vide Bentham's "An introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1789." in The complete Reference Collection, The Learning Company, Inc. copyright 1994,1995, to 1997.]
Should we still judge the goodness or quality of a government's actions by the usefulness to society of the actions or measures that that government enacts?
* Today, given the concept of corporate Globalization, the notion that, for, or on behalf of the interest of the electors, a liberal-type government's role is to control the large corporations, that notion seems to have been reversed: the large corporations actually control those very same governments.
Example(s): When an automobile manufacturer, a GM, announces the closure of its plant, or Bombardier, a transportation (train, bus,street-car) manufacturer, turns to the Federal government for funding to keep its plant open, does the government say to these large companies, "sorry, stand on your own feet?"
Who calls the shots???
Cordially,
Glenn Harewood
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