[lbo-talk] Towards a New WPA, was Re: Roubini/labor market stats

[B.]

I can't believe it, but I am agreeing with Carrol Cox here. For one thing, if it weren't for the WPA's Federal Theater Project, we might not have Orson Welles. It gave him his big break, as it were. And he went on to enrich our culture greatly, I'd argue. We can't rewind history to see how he might've turned out had he not had that opportunity. We just know it happened, and it worked -- for him.

There's something supremely noble in an economic system that provides for self-actualization in such a way. Not that everyone has succeeded, or will succeed, at self-actualization. But I'd rather err on the side of trying/experimenting too much with it, than not. 

-B.

SA wrote:

"Would the violinist be employed to play the violin alone in an empty room or would some means be devised to 'encourage' people to go to his concerts?"