Large Scale Theories
Modern economic theories are all based on large scale macro models of reality, like innovation, productivity and competition creating jobs, etc.
Sweeping generalizations, large scale theories and explanations of how the world works, large scale constructions of the mind trying to contain the world and its interactions. All of our language and thought is essentially generalizations, models, pure logical - mathematical models imposed on reality according to what we think is going on. This is what has been giving science and technology and knowledge and information so much value and importance (the importance of college degrees) in the last 100 years. These theories, the idea that there are so many other new patterns and rules to discover, use and use economically to generate a profit from them has been a guiding principle for so very long. But these have peaked, this is the real peak not PEAK OIL BUT PEAK KNOWLEDGE - INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY as in no longer being able to generate all these new economic sectors. It won’t happen, it is over, it happened in the 20th century, now it is essentially over. We need more information (and information workers/scientists/service economy workers) like a hole in the head.
And yet these large scale models are doing the opposite of what they should do, they are limiting the range of options that we can see, they are constricting reality into a very few digital values as opposed to a reality that can be analog and contain may shades: an example, everyone is searching for jobs in health care or as lawyers, while in the meantime there may be many jobs in completely unnoticed or irrelevant sectors, like truck driving or helping old people at home, who knows, just saying.
This is why educated people worldwide may not find jobs, or surely way below their level (as in they all having a hugely oversized theory/knowledge/know how applied to a puny simple 1 transistor world basically consisting of power relationships, you fight and win or lose, or simple reactions to pain/pleasure circuits, end of story). They have a lot of theories and information available but the economic system can really offer only those few types of jobs available (they are always the same few tens of activities that have always been around, there aren’t all of these thousands of highly specialized jobs needed, it was all a deception, a make believe that the kids fell for, and now will pay dearly). Or they may find jobs in fluff - optional sectors where they are judged on purely aesthetical - artistic values, where it is impossible to measure the value of any work, because there isn’t any real work being performed, but just fluff, so any day can be judgment day, good luck with that.
But the truth is, there are really no Large Scale Theories of economy or sociology or the world, only so many point events, so many casual random interactions, that have no real necessity or laws or patterns except the instantaneous power relationship, event and interactions that generate the event.
And our mind - brain in all of this is an infinite recursion machine, thoughts that become the content of other thoughts that become the imagined contents of what others are thinking or would be thinking, that become a kind of subtle chess game of who or all against all, a never ending array of thoughts, “thought generating machines” through an “infinite recursion machine” and an array of infinite machines in our mind - brain creating ever more recursions, interactions, connections, causes and effects, all imaginary, true or false, who knows ?
The capitalists and rich are suffocating in cash, they are choking in cash, they have so many trillions of dollars between banks, central banks, the FED’S printing press going crazy, sovereign funds, derivatives, private investment entities, Chinese holding trillion dollars, Oil nations choking in cash from oil, you name it, this world is so totally full of cash you wouldn’t believe it. They are going crazy with all of this cash on hand and no good “return on investment” to make: by the way the whole subprime loans and real estate crisis in the USA (and other places) was based on way too much cash available needing to desperately find a way to discharge.
So you can do it man, you can ask for Free Salaries and Cheap Rents, they would give it to you anyways, they would give it to hundreds of millions because even after giving it to all, they would still be choking on cash. Real cash, especially because there are tens of millions of idle, often educated workers available worldwide as a potential workforce that is kept at rest (therefore real goods and services could be produced) because they are trying to figure out a way to make a profit from “labor”. But the era of profit from labor is over essentially, the large non-linearities, chaotic - random (chaos theory anyone ?), large instabilities (also created by this cash going all over the place creating a never ending array of effects and instabilities), large economy of scales through the use of technology, communcations, internet and off shoring labor, etc. have eliminated and will continue to eliminate as much work as possible therefore profit from work.
So you all got really nothing to lose asking for what is really needed, Free Salaries and Cheap Rents: maybe they won’t give them out just for the fun of it, just to be uselessly cruel, but I phantom that they would give it all to all because it is more important to create “growth” as in greater consumption and more interactions that would then create some profits anyways than nothing at all as it’s going today. If they say no dice, who cares, you tried, surely no one, absolutely no one will get anything more by cutting costs, medicare, cutting government jobs, blaming unions and labor and everyone else (as in a war between the poor) as the right wing wants and has brainwashed everyone to believe. In fact the rich capitalists will become even more frustrated, choking on ever more cash until they just burn it all, or create some mega wars to discharge all the huge capacity the system is accumulating, as pent up wealth waiting to discharge like crazy.
Just ask yourselves, how is it that the Central European Bank finds 20 billion euros all of a sudden “to help Portugal” ? How did that cash pop up out of nowhere ? because money is infinite, can’t and won’t run out, it is a proxy of human relationships - interactions - behaviors.
Of course the right wing wants to generate labor by generating problems, so create problems that creates labor that solves the problems to create even more problems etc. No accumulation of efforts here, nothing constructive being created here, just activity that is based on ever increasing conflictuality, “problems generating” machines.
From:
kunstler.com/blog/2011/04/blowin … smoke.html
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