How did that happen ?!?!

nameta9 · March 31, 2011, 6:30am

200,000 new “private sector jobs” appeared out of nowhere, were “created” (in the USA) and the stock market went up. Wow! How the heck did that happen ? It must be the “market”, the automatic economy that just generates them through magic. I am wondering what “skill sets” those jobs required, there must be special secret passwords (or buzzwords?) that land those jobs. What “innovation” or “training” or “education” is associated with all those “new jobs”, aside from the fact that they all must be in some “innovative” sectors that I never even imagined existed. There must be a lot of new math and science jobs that all of a sudden are necessary and no one up to now ever noticed given the great need for math and science majors (this need has been present since 1950, every year since then it has always been emphasized, you would think that by now the need would have been satisfied) corporations always talk about, there must be a lot of new equations to solve and engineering that must be done all of a sudden.

And I am sure that those very talented that landed the jobs were all ready “to hit the ground running” and have the right “personality” traits, two buzzwords that maybe mean you will be required to do the jobs of 10 people previously fired, and you have to be ready to always say yes and abide to the new boss at hand.

By the way, the “hit the ground running” myth is another interesting construction: those that do land the jobs probably have to work “hard” and many hours to compensate all of those previously fired, so they see a work environment where there is all of this huge amount of work to do, on the other hand you have millions of idle people at home watching TV. So the guy that works “sees reality for what it is, sees the real work environment”, and can say there really is all of this work “to do”, the idle guys can’t reply because they just watch TV and they are “wrong and don’t know what they are talking about”. Those that are idle are induced into feeling inadequate, not trained - educated - skill set savvy enough, compared to those working that are induced to feel superior by their ever greater advantage. The idle guys feel that they really “don’t deserve to work”, it is their “fault”, hence they do become lazy as in discouraged, hence a positive feedback loop. But this is exactly what is wanted by the corporations, discourage the weak as much as possible and encourage the strong, amplify inequality as much as possible.

The less real work there is to do the more people are “required to hit the ground running” to cover up the reality of work disappearing. As soon as you get down to some real manipulation that must be done, like in manufacturing, like for example attaching the wheels to the new car on the production line, all the fluff and deceptions and make believe education and skill sets necessity disappear: you can actually see what is needed and you can actually debate how to perform it, but this is exactly what the dominating ideology wants to avoid. So all this service economy fluff, all this abstract incomprehensible innovation - productivity - skills, etc. are all set up to hide a basic power relationship, a basic hidden fight of one will power against another will power: the bosses - capitalists decide anything and everything, you obey and execute since you can’t even reply not even knowing how to reply.

Of course, nothing can really be done about it, in the end it is always a fight, a winner and a loser, all the fluff is just a way to let the loser accept that the winner deserves to win, is right, that “reality operates according to the model the winner has imposed and brainwashed everyone with”. And since there will always be an arbitrary fake model, no matter what, there will always be a winner and a loser.

But getting back to my first question, how can I really control that 200,000 jobs were “created”, how do I know that it is true ? Can I check the entire USA and the lives of 300 million people and see for myself ? No way jose’, you just have to accept the numbers as real. So reality is always a manufactured reality, manufactured according to who writes the numbers, numbers that are just invented (just like the unemployment numbers of JAPAN that have always been at 4%, but because they keep millions in offices even if they have nothing to do except to wait for the boss to go home at 10 at night, after which they can leave too, pure status relationships, pure power relationships, really cool, at least it is honest and not hypocritical like in the USA).

Probably the capitalists have to show that the system “creates jobs”, so they suggest their companies to start hiring again, no matter what, especially since the stock market must go up and the need for profit is a natural law of physics. So they hire anyways, just to hose them all, a little later.

A lot of work is created by just shuffling the cards, opening and closing offices and businesses, ever changing organizations, creating confusion, confusing procedures and standards, all kinds of oddball mechanisms, constant hire and fire of all kinds of people for all kinds of reasons, this alone shows how much “necessity” is no longer present in the economic system, it is an EXCESS CAPACITY, resource rich system that doesn’t even know what to do with its wealth.

Maybe the reason I am so obsessed with all of this is the very fact that reality is manufactured, is a make believe entity programmed in the minds of people according to some dominating program, is a pure invention, a pure construction with no necessity at all at its base. The meanings of items, the importance of some things vs others, how they are tied into emotional states, patterns of behaviors, interactions between people is a pure quirk invention, without any base or truth to it. So given the nature of how you can manufacture reality and brainwash people into believing it, you can make them them do anything and believe anything and behave in any way.

The dominating culture, through all kinds of communications, does an excellent job in programming people.

I could have believed that 200,000 REAL jobs were created if obama said we needed 10 Rockets to Mars, a new dense BUS system in the USA, and 10 new High Speed Trains…

nameta9 · March 31, 2011, 7:24am

One example could be the new APPs being programmed for smartphones, IPADs, iphones, etc. So what exactly are the APPs ? They are small programs that give mobile people some services like finding the nearest restaurant, or some small games, or “push the red button” thingies.

The idea is that the programs are small as opposed to the many thousands of large complex programs produced in the last 20 years for PCs and Servers, and they are simpler, more service based, don’t need manuals etc. So I would phantom they will generate less “work” than the large old programs did, being that they are shorter and simpler.

But especially, it seems that most of these APPs are made through a system of “Free Work”. That’s right, you won’t get Free Salaries, but you will get to do Free Work. The guy writing the App at home tries to imagine a cool one, writes it and sends it to Apple or similar, if the APP is successful, he can get some money off of it, some guys are making a lot of money off of them.

But is this work or already a “hobby factory” ? And all of the Internet content generated by users, what is that ?

nameta9 · March 31, 2011, 8:05am

From:

kunstler.com/blog/2011/03/make-no-mistake.html

“I don’t know how you can avoid the average load of a bus being 9 people or so - except by running the routes MUCH less frequently.
-So maybe that does come down to a question of something like “freedom,” or maybe convenience - as the RW keeps hinting in their diatribes against public transport.”

I answer:

Small cars are good, agreed, and some Japanese and European models they use there are even more efficient than the most efficient in the US.

But:

A new small car costs 10,000 dollars a used decent one 5,000.
You need to pay for insurance.
You occupy a room in your house by using the garage as a house for the car, this resource could be put back to use as living space.
Cars generate traffic jams, time to travel increases.
Cars occupy parking spaces in malls and office parks or whatever, other space that could be used for other things.
You have to drive instead of doing nothing and enjoying being a nice FreeLoader.

Anyways, buses are also a form of creating a feeling of community, security, see people are all the same, nice people just minding their own business and using a common transportation mode: but this flies in the face of the USA mentality of everyone against everyone, common good is always “communism”, etc.

So the reason there are no buses in the US is much deeper than just the MPG, the entire country has been designed to make mass transit virtually impossible, but if it was really desired by the majority of the people, the USA could pull it off fantastically and could create the best mass transit system in the world.

Now go on, and talk about blacks, mexicans, race, welfare queens, who is guilty of what, when and who, beat each other up, go on, that is constructive…

And I wanted to say just one thing: this weeks blog by JHK also demonstrates his need to “punish” those that are guilty, he attacks the individual and not the system and structure of the system, which would be much more fruitful in possibly changing things for the better. I could care less to punish the guilty, the system sucks from the outset, change the system.

nameta9 · March 31, 2011, 4:37pm

From:

kunstler.com/blog/2011/03/make-no-mistake.html

"Granted, the age of labor unions may be over for a while, maybe forever (who knows?), and the age of government money hand-outs on the grand scale to everybody-and-his-uncle, too. But how about just a party of intelligence and courage? Wouldn’t that be enough to start with? A party capable of setting some limits and enforcing them. A party able to understand the signals that the future is sending us about resource scarcity. "

Read between the lines of that paragraph.

Aside from the fact that he wants them to concentrate on single cases of people doing wrong, on punishing the individual, concentrate on random individual cases and never look at the real big picture. Like when the news only talks about Brtiney Spears or some random microscopic affair of no importance.

That paragraph shows the real reactionary, anti-labor, Right Wing Thug ideology of peak oil and JHKs resource scarcity myth: since resources are running out, there will be no more labor unions, expect to be paid less and less and have fewer and fewer rights as a worker. Expect decreasing expectations, etc. The capitalists love this theory, it sets people up psychologically to accept any amount of robbing from them possible since resources are running out and we have “overpopulation”.

This also plays in nicely into the trend of people loving simple cause and effect linearities, simple find the flaw and punish, especially punish people: you used too much gas, now you will be punished, there are too many people, now you deserve to suffer and be punished, etc. They can hardly wait for the millions of people that will starve to death worldwide because there will “no longer be oil”. But it is all false, it is all a deception, very hard to see through it all and connect the dots, but it is a huge sophisticated deception that sounds liberal and progressive and left wing but is extremely right wing, reactionary anti-labor and pro-capital.

All doom and gloom theories play nicely in the hands of the dominating class, the rich, the capitalists, by saying that something bad will happen it prepares everyone to expect less, to be punished, to lose something, even everything. Also the ideology of punish for the pleasure you had, punish because the Technological Economy gave you more than you “deserved”, like TV, comfort, etc. it is all bad, it is all a sin, you shall be punished or nature will punish you, or the “collective choices, like driving cars and going to Walmart” will be punished.

Also the idea that no one ever says that the Technological Economy is set up to eliminate as much work as possible structurally, as an automatic macro trend implies a completely different ball game, a completely different set of political choices: since the economy will no longer produce the jobs “automatically”, but destroy them, then the powers that be, both governments and corporations will have to explicity create them. But no one will ever says this, they will always talk about competition, skill sets, productivity, etc. and keep on eliminating jobs or creating fake ones that will last only a short time until being eliminated again, just for show, just to make believe that companies are hiring.

No hands out, when that is exactly what will be needed in the future of no work and millions of people needing to live.

We need Free Salaries JHK, get over it and stop protecting the rich that get trillions for free from the FED.