A cool idea I found: economics

The RICH Economy
by Robert Anton Wilson 
RICH means Rising Income through Cybernetic Homeostasis

Basically: Unemployment is a natural effect of improved technology. The more efficient machines become the less workers you need. Employment and work are not self-evidently "good" uses of time. Most people hate working. We work in order for the products of work. Needing less people is not a bad thing. People not "working" isn't a bad thing either. The wealthy do not really work. So why is being unemployed a bad thing? Our current economic system is set up to reward work and punish unemployment. Our economic system made sense back in the pioneer days, in modern times and in the future this makes less and less sense. Robert Anton Wilson lists 3 new economic policies to change our understanding of unemployment and the affect massive unemployment has on the world. Consider these ideas alternative to hiring people to dig a hole and then fill the hole - government employment.

IDEA #1:
The National Dividend. This was invented by engineer C. H. Douglas and has been revived with some modifications by poet Ezra Pound and designer Buckminster Fuller. The basic idea (although Douglas, Pound, and Fuller differ on the details) is that every citizen should be declared a shareholder in the nation, and should receive dividends on the Gross National Product for the year. Estimates differ as to how much this would be for each citizen, but at the current level of the GNP it is conservative to say that a share would be worth several times as much, per year, as a welfare recipient receives -- at least five times more. Critics complain that this would be inflationary. Supporters of the National Dividend reply that it would only be inflationary if the dividends distributed were more than the GNP; and they are proposing only to issue dividends equal to the GNP.

 IDEA #2:
The Guaranteed Annual Income. This has been urged by economist Robert Theobald and others. The government would simply establish an income level above the poverty line and guarantee that no citizen would receive less; if your wages fall below that level, or you have no wages, the government makes up the difference. This plan would definitely cost the government less than the present welfare system, with all its bureaucratic red tape and redundancy: a point worth considering for those conservatives who are always complaining about the high cost of welfare. It would also spare the recipients the humiliation, degradation and dehumanization built into the present welfare system: a point for liberals to consider. A system that is less expensive than welfare and also less debasing to the poor, it seems to me, should not be objectionable to anybody but hardcore sadists.

IDEA #3:
The Negative Income Tax. This was first devised by Nobel economist Milton Friedman and is a less radical variation on the above ideas. The Negative Income Tax would establish a minimum income for every citizen; anyone whose income fell below that level would receive the amount necessary to bring them up to that standard. Friedman, who is sometimes called a conservative but prefers to title himself a libertarian, points out that this would cost "the government" (i.e. the taxpayers) less than the present welfare system, like Theobald's Guaranteed Annual Income. It would also dispense with the last tinge of humiliation associated with government "charity," since when you cashed a check from IRS nobody (not even your banker) would know if it was supplementary income due to poverty or a refund due to overpayment of last year's taxes.

I personally think that these are great alternatives to our current reaction to unemployment. 

Rushes towards complete destruction

I don't know why the politicians hate this country. They vote against improving education. They vote against public health care. They vote against what is best for the people. They vote for wars and pay increases for themselves. They vote for lower taxes for themselves and the businesses that donate funds to their campaigns.
  Now there is talk for war with Iran. We always fight 3rd world nations. We never concern ourselves with our budget. Our wars are not free. The more wars we have the more people die. The more money we borrow from China. The stronger our enemies grow. You cannot fight and destroy ideology. The Catholic Church knows this best of all. They used to own most of Europe. Then the protestants changed that. Violence doesn't make you right and will not preserve you.
  Many people think that America is invincible and that America will last forever. I do not. I am a realist. I know when to abandon ship. We are not there yet, but we are coming close. We've  lost our desire for hard work. We've lost all the qualities that made America great. Now China has them, except for freedom.
  We kid ourselves, we haven't had freedom for very long if ever. We forget the Red Scare when citizens were hounded for being communists. We forget the civil rights movement was only 50-60 years ago. We have freedom because the rest of the world hasn't caught up to the Internet, yet. We like freedom, but we will not be given it. Freedom isn't free you have to take it. The legislators want to take all power and freedom and convince you that your rights are privileges. They do this to control you.
   Those with power, want more power. They want to conserve their power. They want you to give them your power. You must not do it. They will convince you that they are right. They will convince you that opinions are facts and make them laws. Laws are agreements that those in power have with others in power. You obey them because you choose to. In reality if enough people ignored them the laws would have to change. Such as the civil rights movement. It was against the law, but the law was against the people.
   Power grabs are much more insidious than before. They have the media to create a dream world. You won't even know that they have power over you. They have you believing that dreams are real, that real is dreams. The less powerful you think you are the quicker you will give away your power for someone to save you. Only you can save yourself.