Destroying people’s ability to pump their gas then “fixing” it with a job program.
Might as well let people pump their gas and then give the “workers” money and time. Consumers would pay the same and the “workers” still get the same money but extra time to hopefully better themselves rather than being stuck pumping gas for 8 hours a day.
“Creating jobs” only works when the jobs are needed for the society.
Creating a job just to justify paying someone is absurd.
Let’s say the gas station worker makes $15 an hour
Let’s say gas is $3 per gallon
That means if the gas station worker wasn’t there the gas station could give away 5 gallons of gas for free per hour and still make the same profit.
Which is better for the whole society? One person making $15 an hour doing a task that 49 other states have no problem doing themselves. Or 1 person from the community getting 5 free gallons of gas every hour?
If you never stop paying that person $15 an hour, you can never move on to better things.
And efficiency. If you spend time in the south, people park at the pump and then just wander off. Scratch off some lottery tickets. Get a soda. Use the bathroom. Write a sonnet. All sorts of shit.
Do that in NJ and traffic would back up onto the parkway and down ten exits.
And every transaction on the one open register: Lemme get uhhhhhhhhh two number twelves… uhhhhhhhhhhhhh a quick pick… uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh two rolls of the Kodiak long cut… uhhhhhhhhhhhh
I have never understood why so many people have an issue with an obvious jobs program.
Broken window fallacy
Destroying people’s ability to pump their gas then “fixing” it with a job program.
Might as well let people pump their gas and then give the “workers” money and time. Consumers would pay the same and the “workers” still get the same money but extra time to hopefully better themselves rather than being stuck pumping gas for 8 hours a day.
“Creating jobs” only works when the jobs are needed for the society.
Creating a job just to justify paying someone is absurd.
Perfection is the enemy of good fallacy.
We aren’t getting rid of gas stations or capitalism anytime soon, this is something that we can do right now.
Let’s say the gas station worker makes $15 an hour
Let’s say gas is $3 per gallon
That means if the gas station worker wasn’t there the gas station could give away 5 gallons of gas for free per hour and still make the same profit.
Which is better for the whole society? One person making $15 an hour doing a task that 49 other states have no problem doing themselves. Or 1 person from the community getting 5 free gallons of gas every hour?
If you never stop paying that person $15 an hour, you can never move on to better things.
And efficiency. If you spend time in the south, people park at the pump and then just wander off. Scratch off some lottery tickets. Get a soda. Use the bathroom. Write a sonnet. All sorts of shit.
Do that in NJ and traffic would back up onto the parkway and down ten exits.
And every transaction on the one open register: Lemme get uhhhhhhhhh two number twelves… uhhhhhhhhhhhhh a quick pick… uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh two rolls of the Kodiak long cut… uhhhhhhhhhhhh
And we can add in what feels like half the gas stations I go to in Eastern PA. Especially now that more people are being forced to commute again.