Build affordable housing
Modern social services and protections
- encourage unions
- universal healthcare
- universal pre-school
- universal college
- extended parental leave
- childcare support
- walkability/transit oriented cities
Give the money to the people that will spend it to stimulate the economy. Stop giving the money to people who don’t need it.
There are countless proven ways to do this. There are also some good ideas like UBI that would be worth a try. Tried and true ways like raising minimum wage, progressive taxes, providing training and education, subsidizing healthcare/schools/childcare, etc.
A generic version of what many people are saying… support the middle class and poor by making their lives easier. Same thing with teachers. Pay would be great, but actual support in doing their jobs would make a much bigger difference. Most poor and middle class people don’t really want a handout. They want less stress and more security about their future.
Enforce a Market-Basket-Measure based minimum-wage:
live in an expensive city?
Yes, there’s much more innovation-per-capita there ( because more complex interactions are happening, more people sparking other-people ), but the costs are higher there, too, so therefore the minimum-wage has to be higher, the bigger the city.
You also get the rural-living-tax, though, as you’re much more motor-vehicle-dependent, rurally…
Fix the wages law, so parenting can be unbroken, & that would have significant cascading-effects.
Enforce proper education’s availability, so that critical-reasoning becomes normal for 80+ percent of the population, ASAP.
That would undo much of the idiocracy-cult’s traction, & get rationality beck into the world.
Prevent DarkTetrad/DarkTriad people from being electABLE, or having authority in public-service ( including police-services ), & that would make huge difference.
Criminalize bribery, including lobbying, & force all issues to be decided through rational issue-diagrams, not through “politicking”, & that would clean-up our countries, significantly.
etc.
Combined-Arms: hit all the dimensions, simultaneously, & force the enemy-of-our-viability to yield, no matter what.
Otherwise, The Great Filter’s going to be our world’s epitaph, in about 60y.
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