Geoffrey MillerVerified account

I don't think that's mass unemployed kind of work - it's usually done by construction/engineering companies with experienced workers. But there are other things the unemployed could do: deliver groceries to the elderly, pick up garbage off streets, plant flowers and trees, etc.

Are we rolling safety and certification standards back to 1930s levels? Good luck taking people off the street and putting them on "shovel-ready" projects right away when you need a Class B commercial license to drive a dump truck, for instance.

an unemployed waitress or an underemployed Uber-eats delivery guy will probably be liabilities on a road construction crew....just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Yes, but don’t worry we hate actual work. Building stuff is far less virtuous than adding diversity officers and neighborhood activists.

You know the world is in trouble when _you_ ask something like this!!!