How did that happen ?!?!
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…