The Myth of “JOBS”
Actually, come to think about it, our present society, system, economic system has nothing at all to do with jobs and work at all ! It is mostly independent of “Jobs” and “Work”, doesn’t even need “Jobs” and “Work” and needs to “create Jobs” and “Jobs” and “Work” in general like a hole in the head.
Many just can’t cram it in their thick heads that our present Technological Economy doesn’t need more jobs, more work, doesn’t create more jobs and work, needs more than anything else, consumerism and consumers, needs options and games, needs ever more free time to waste on options and games and wild consumption because the system produces free production by the boatloads, produces and can potentially produce way more than can ever be consumed by the boatloads. Just think, how can there be so many trillions of dollars floating around in the world banks and all, when so few people do any real work at all, most are just producing fluff (all the Information Workers, producing Symbols which are really ZERO REAL PRODUCTION, they are not cars which is REAL PRODUCTION) and working make believe jobs, go figure.
And the system is tuned and optimized to eliminate jobs, and all of the Innovation and Research and “More education” will only serve to eliminate as many jobs as possible, the system’s real goal is to kill jobs, kill ever more jobs by using robots, automation, optimization, by using “Innovation” to find “new ways to produce” and do things “with less cost” hence, somewhere down the line with less jobs, ever fewer, and in fact this is the real sign of progress and value of all of our Innovation, Technology, Research and Education: how many more jobs can you hack, how much more can you achieve with fewer and fewer people needing to be paid, how much more profit can the few hands governing the production process hog up, by killing ever more jobs.
And yet, all the economists, politicians, thinkers, you name it keep on chanting the fairy tale of “job creation”, "less taxes will create jobs, “more education and innovation will create jobs”, you name, the more false and idiotic the relationship the more they chant it and believe in it. Incredible, our present Technological Economy, and in the future ever more, has absolutely nothing at all to do with jobs, and will have ever less to do with jobs and ever more to do with simple Status Relationships, Power Relationships, just pure power, who owns and controls what, who can hog money on one side or another, independent of any “effort”, or “hard work” or “jobs” all the 18th century thinkers love to keep on blattering.
Just 1 trillion dollars of debts (and the USA, EU and JAPAN have more than 20 trillions of dollars that must be “paid back”) to be paid back must be equivalent to 10 million jobs being paid 10,000 dollars a year for 10 years: exactly what manipulations, what informational or physical transformations will those “new jobs” imply ? Exactly what input → manipulation → output will 10 million people do 8 hours a day, everyday, for ten years that is equivalent to that 10,000 dollars a year salary (which by the way, is a very high salary worldwide) ? Nobody ever answers, nobody knows, everyone believes the “Invisible Hand of the Market” will “create them”, the same hand that is hosing as many possible jobs as it can to increase profit, go figure.
We need Scott Free Handouts, 800 dollars a month to billions of people worldwide and cheap rents, 200 dollars a month to rent a 3 bedroom house all over the world, AMEN. And huge public - private projects, TRILLIONS OF SKYSCRAPERS, TRILLIONS OF ROCKETS TO MARS, WHAT I HAVE BEEN REPEATING FOREVER, BUT NO ONE IS LISTENING, AND NO ONE IS DOING WHAT I DEMAND, DO IT JACKASSES ! JUST DO IT ! GIVE ME MY SCOTT FREE HANDOUT AND TRILLIONS OF SKYSCRAPERS AND ROCKETS TO MARS. JESUS CHRIST, I CAN’T BELIEVE WHAT IDIOTS THE GOVERNMENTS OF THIS WORLD ARE!