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Infrastructure work requires specialized training... that I don’t have. And most people don’t have.

We could certainly build a construction corps. But I don’t think many people in my neighborhood could be part of it.

Modern construction is far more technical than in the 1930s. Failure isn’t tolerated. Environmental impact statements are needed.

It’s insulting to the highly trained construction workers to say the average person could be conscripted into doing their job.



Re-institute the Manpower Board then, the government’s management of large amounts of manpower means they have a vested interest in their training. Look to the military, kids turn into marines, fighter pilots, engineers.


Only 30% of young adults meet the requirements for military service.

Most previous mass mobilizations focused on young men.

I still can’t imagine what sort of work my neighbors and I would be doing.

Not building roads, that’s for sure. Lots of bad backs.




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