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Workerless Society - How Many Exchanges ?
That is the question. How many possible exchanges of “goods” or “services” can there be between people ? Once you exchanged a car (bought or sold or manufactured), a house, food and some other things well, now what ? how many jobs can those exchanges imply ? Some or a lot, but essentially limited also because technology automates a lot of repetitive tasks, and “mergers and acquisitions” further optimizes, consolidates, creates “economies of scale”, lets one office or plant do the job that was once done by 3 or 4, hence 100 people do the work that was once done by 200 because now there are only 2 or 3 big dogs (that make more money and profit) than 5 or 6 previous ones that have been “merged” or “closed”, etc., cuts corners, streamlines processes, you name it, hence implying fewer and fewer jobs for those goods and services that are exchanged (hence the idea of progress ?). So imagine that there are 10 other things to be exchanged, 10 other possible transactions, you buy a coat, you download a movie, etc. how many more possible interactions and transactions between people that imply jobs can there be ? 100, 500 ? say 1,000 and say a 1,000 people “work” within those exchanges - transactions, that only makes 1 million jobs. Not many, considering that worldwide we need hundreds of millions of “jobs” (also, the economy is global now, one world one economy, there are no more separate countries although this other make believe BS is so convenient). SO what gives ? How are you going to create all of those jobs ? Will they be created by the magic of the “Invisible Hand” of the market ?
That is why “Services” has become so important, because with services you can exchange a lot of unnecessary things, make believe things, assign value to things (as in value added) that essentially have only imaginary or perceived, invented value, like bottled water, just put water in bottles, put a tag on it and sell it, you can have millions of new water brands (so maybe the greens are on to something here, how many plastic bottles are you going to fill the world up with ? but that is good and cool because with the accumulation of plastic on earth that will become the new material upon which natural evolution will perform its tricks, new plastic life forms, completely new organisms working with completely new principles all using plastic). Same with tablets and Software and Education, you name it, actually, you invent it, make it up, put a brand name on it, you created a new exchange, a new sector and “new jobs”. It essentially means selling Nothing for Something, selling some make believe stuff to someone who thinks that he is actually buying something, it means selling nothing for something (and the cycle can repeat many times, and the indirections and denotations can repeat many times, the chain of nothings for “something imaginary that becomes something that makes believe it is real” can be very long), the loop can cycle quite a number of times, but in the end you have to finally sell nothing for something of real value, something real like a house, a car, food, a coat. And at this point the jobs become real, but for every real job and real exchange you have a huge load of fake jobs and fake exchanges. But especially, all of this economy is based on fooling people into buying fluff, and as long as people are willing to make believe and buy into it, all is ok, but as soon as they decide, well maybe I don’t really need that other new fairy tale, well then you are in trouble.
And that is the problem: how much make believe can we keep on inventing ? how many new college degrees in flufforama services economy that will result in all of these “new jobs” paying “a lot of money” can we keep on tricking people to buy ? I say not many, but especially, as soon as someone starts doubting the value of things, a whole lot of other things start losing value also, just like all the banks and financial entities today.
As a corollary, the reason why real estate, houses, rents and health care keeps on costing more is because they are somehow tied into real exchanges and real needs, people really need them that is why those costs can keep on going sky high while tablets and software and movies and many other information products tend to cost less and less, as there is and will be a saturation of these items, that are not real necessities, and in order to sell must cost less and less until you can’t even sell them anymore, hence the myth of the services economy generating jobs is just that, a myth, it won’t happen anymore. I know of some places where buildings that were once offices have been turned into apartments, this kind of goes to show exactly what happens: no one knows what to do with the offices anymore since they don’t know what to make people do in the offices and why they should be paid and what on earth activity should be perfomed (that could make a profit ?) while simply converting them into houses makes more sense, since housing is a much more real necessity.
But the entire idea of “creating jobs”, the entire crisis (if it really even is one ? or is it the same old random confusion and cycles that have always been societies and economies ?) is really based on “What do you want People to do all Day Long” ? what large scale goals or projects does a society desire, or want ? If you really want to create jobs, exchanges - transactions, if you really want to force excess exchanges in order to create activity and jobs, etc. the only way is for a central government to force them by creating huge large scale projects that need so many manufacturing entities, so many real services and real exchanges and this is done by creating skyscrapers, high speed trains, rockets to mars, and many many others.
But even so, no matter what, they will never cover the need of so many jobs, so for the rest just give out free salaries and free houses, huge luxury McMansions to all 7 billion people worldwide.
But alas, it is all in vain, we can keep on inventing ever more clever explanations, causes and effects, it’s true and all logical, but it is irrelevant, the world will operate independently from anything and any theory, it is an automatic ideological machine that keeps on executing its program, the financial entities governing, the banks, the FED, the stock marktets, etc. All believing in magic, like the entire idea of profit is magic, put 1,000 dollars in the closet and open the closet after a year and you expect 1,100 dollars, the entire mentality is a magic based mentality, the same with all of this myth of Research and Innovation, put the guys in a laboratory or a new Startup and they will create a new killer application of flufforama and some new unnecessary item that will make people sell the new nothing for something real, etc. In Peking, the apple store had to close, there was a riot over trying to buy the IPHONE, go figure.
Actually, the logic of any cause and effect, any language construction is always true no matter what, we can create an infinite number of blocks of texts like this above since it is all logical and true from the outset, but mostly totally useless. It is not that any government will read this block of texts and say, ok, tomorrow we will start a new space program and give out free salaries, etc. everything is 100 % independent from anything said, any logic. The saturation of information, concepts, etc. just start to erase letters in your mind, erase words, make it so thoughts can’t be constructed anymore, eliminate information, causes and effects.
Free your mind. You better free your mind instead.
That is why all the social skills, social BS is so important, since you have to sell Nothing for Something, you have to be a good seller, you have to be good at convincing people that they are buying something “valuable” when the value is only in the eyes of the beholder. And also, this system has given individual Will Power, and individual people much more power because their quirk decision can mean success or failure of some item, and I hate the idea that other people have to decide, I want a dictator that tells all what to do, that is why I want a computer to govern societies, man must just be another circuit within an automatic machine…