Comment by iso8859-1
12 days ago
What I love about them is that they require a lot of investment, and investment means jobs. The decommissioning of the AVR in Jülich is estimated to cost 2.5 billion euros. That's a lot of jobs! It even translates to American jobs, since the relevant authorities (now public, of course) is planning to export the nuclear waste to USA.[0] It's a win-win!
[0]: https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/vorab/juelich-entsorgung-radi...
But if it required less investment, wouldn’t that free up cash for other investments and jobs? I don’t understand why projects which require more labor would be desirable.
It seems like the problem with modern capitalism is too much money and too few real jobs.
There are many jobs unfilled. The biggest problem right now is that unemployed people have the wrong skills for the jobs that need to be filled. This trend will accelerate along with technological advances, no matter which kind of economic system is involved.
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