The “Green New Deal”: Not Green, Not New, and Not Much of a Deal

… Instead of a Rube Goldberg economy where the government hires enough people to run in hamster wheels or dig holes and fill them back in to keep everyone employed forty hours a week, how about eliminating the part of the price of goods and services that reflects embedded rents and waste (planned obsolescence, patents and copyrights, inefficient overly-centralized production methods, etc.) so that the average person can enjoy her current standard of living with a 15-hour week?

Instead of perpetuating the job culture and relying on inefficiency to keep us all employed, how about moving to a competitive market economy where all of us — instead of just a few rentier capitalists — share the gains from efficiency?

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  2. labortheoryofvacuums said: Interesting critique, I appreciate a response to Stein and the Green Party’s 2012 “Green New Deal” proposal that I originally was in support of. I agree with the GP on many issues but I feel they have drifted.
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