Quote (Skinned @ Dec 10 2016 01:04pm)
Redistribution of goods produced in a rational way obviously. Let people keep more of what they earn for one. Second Not overproduction of one commodity to the detriment of other needed ones. This would more or less eliminate recessions which now are caused by surplus and not scarcity. An example is the housing bubble where houses are overproduced heavily, which is still happening, where we have banks hanging on to empty homes and letting them turn to shit to protect the value of the private property they own, meanwhile there isn't a single shelter bed open in my city tonight and call around it is probably true there, all so banks can retain their wealth and not see diminished wealth on their other property holdings because their value is relative to how many empty houses they can hold hostage from poor families living in the street or just squatting in the plethora of endless homes produced, which to you would be criminal, effectively making homelessness a crime. The dot.com recession is the same thing. Our means of production are post-scarcity, we even subsidize wealthy landowners to not grow crops, including several GOP senators, who are just getting fat and delicious, you know the meat has good marbling.....they don't understand that dudes aren't going to be looting stores when it happens again...they are going to be devoured. All scarcity is artificially created for the benefit of the 1%.
If you want to talk cost of living I work for a business that is nonprofit, gives away a million dollars of health care a day, and pays its employees above market rates. People with greater skill sets make more than people who do more menial tasks. We aren't supporting any billionaires who don't advance the mission at all, just own shares.
Too many free lunches being bought for rich guys.
You know what produces that rampant oversupply? Too much money being created. Not that that has anything to do with you addressing my original point addressing "Red states fail to provide a reasonable standard of living and need help?".