What is to be done?

First America backs the Islamists. When the Islamists come to power, America says they’re violating human rights. Then America use that as a justification to buy weapons. This is how they create jobs. Why can’t we create jobs by vote?

1. Enshrine human rights in the constitution. Uphold the rule of law. Without human rights, I don’t think it’s possible to know the will of the people. Those in power would silence any opposition.
2. Create jobs by popular vote. Expropriate means of production if the people vote for enough essential goods to be produced through the government that the government doesn’t have the resources to do it otherwise. Do not expropriate means of production unless necessary. Do not expropriate means of production to let the government produce non-essential goods. The government can produce non-essential goods. It cannot expropriate means of production to do so.

The purpose of this proposal is to free the poor from dependence on the capitalists in various ways: capitalists can’t stop creating jobs because line not go up, capitalists can’t stop selling essential goods because line not go up, capitalists can’t move capital abroad because line not go up, etc.

What it doesn’t do is ban buying and selling.

3. Use labor vouchers to decide the proportion in which to pay government workers.

The issue is that the actual buying power of any currency depends on the amount of goods available for sale on the market, not the denomination of notes being used to pay workers. I am not decreeing either salaries or prices. I am decreeing increased production and sales of goods that the voters say they want more of. If a greater supply is available, the price will naturally fall. This is different from the normal practice under capitalism, which is to stop producing and, depending on whether the capitalist needs to liquidate assets quickly, stop selling goods when the prices fall too far. This possibility is barred under my proposal. No matter how far prices fall, the economy is going to keep producing more until the price of money rockets sky high. When the price of money is high, and the government hands it out by decree, salaries are high. Goods are cheap regardless of the actual denomination of notes being handed out.

4. Develop mechanisms by which multiple projects coordinate the production of intermediate products. For example, all the construction projects that require steel bars could pool resources to support a project that only produces high quality steel bars and delivers them to its supporters. This would make all their work easier.
5. As an example of point 2, applicants who want farming jobs would be assigned land by the government. Then their work would be subsidized by the government as long as the people vote for it. If they mismanage the property, it will be taken away and assigned to other applicants.

There should be general legal guidelines about what counts as “mismanagement”. Such accusations will be resolved through legal challenges. Reasonable evidential standards must be met before applicants can be convicted of wrongdoing.