Greetings good citizen! The latest from the President elect is he's going to 'create jobs'.
Left to our collective imagination is just how bad is it out there, really?
First thing most of us don't think about is since your ability to vote is linked directly to the annual town census, how many millions didn't vote in the recent election/debacle because they lacked 'proof of residence'?
Then there is the [heavily manipulated] Labor force participation rate, literally MILLIONS of YOUNG MEN are living off their parents because there ARE NO JOBS.
Remember the conundrum of capitalism, if you can't live on what your employer pays you it's not his problem, IT'S YOURS
Since rent travels in lock-step with mortgages [in case you ever wondered how landlords arrived at how much the dump that hasn't been reno'd in forty years is worth they want to rent YOU] You are answered. The 'prevailing current mortgage payment' is the basis for all rent pricing decisions.
That's why two or even several minimum wage jobs isn't sufficient for a majority of millennials to leave their parents house.
My 21 year old is making 'move out' noises but they are exactly that. He ain't goin' nowhere until one of his buddies hits the lottery.
It won't be him, he doesn't play. He thinks it's stupid...but if he could get back just a nickel on every dollar he's spent on Magic Cards he'd have his 'first and last!'
So there lies the 'Tip of the Iceberg', tens of millions of kids who have been waiting [some more than a decade] to 'get their feet under them' and start a life 'on their own.
All money is 'funny' and it's the 'abuse' of this property that leads to the kind of 'inflationary cycle' that prices hundreds of millions out of the 'future'. Remember, King of the Hill doesn't stop once you achieve 'more than you can spend status', they forever watch one another and keep building their stack higher in a perverse competition nobody cares about but them...[which is a little misleading, the gold-diggers care too because axiom number two is ever and always 'it's easier to take it than to make it!]
That and 'A fool and his money' isn't exclusive to the young...supposedly 'wiser heads' have found themselves in the unfortunate position of being 'old enough to know better but too horny to care!'
So it is the 'stockpiles' of the 'Freakishly Selfish' that drive prices ever upward because there is no mechanism to 'retire' money that has been used/spent.
Under A Simple Plan, once spent, the money is erased from your account, NOBODY gets it! [You've already been paid for your labor by your 'true employer' society. There is no need to pay you twice.
The 'business' that produced the product doesn't 'need the money', resources are FREE, Mother Nature DOESN'T HAVE A CASH REGISTER!
Understand, when we 'convert' to the new system, all of that paper will go 'poof'...so will the electronic accounts it's stored in. What you HAD is gone. BETTER, you won't have the ability to, er, 'bequest' your remaining funds when you die because the ability to transfer funds between individuals is strictly prohibited. When you die, your money dies with you!
The 'inability' to transfer funds between individual is born of the fact that many lack the necessary management skills to hold on to their money. By limiting where money can be spent it eliminates MOST TYPES of 'poverty'.
Drugs will be legal and you'll be able to buy them with few restrictions. There will be dosing standards that can't be exceeded but some people will find themselves unable to fulfill their obligations because they were 'too stoned' to report on time for their job.
Once, we turn our heads, happens to the best of us...twice, you're going for treatment...strike three and you're OUT [as in exiled.]
Once should be enough for most people to clean their act up. We may not do anything the first time but your 'free ride' is officially 'spent'.
But I digress. I share that to provide you with a 'clear picture' of what I propose. Understand, even the 'airy fairy' gift social model will sprout teeth and claws if/when it starts to fall apart.
I'd rather 'lay it on the line' upfront than have the [inevitable] 'I didn't know' come popping out when Joe/Jane Slacker finally figure out the guaranteed job works BOTH WAYS!
YOU ARE GUARANTEED A JOB AND YOU DAMN WELL BETTER DO IT!
They won't be 'stupid jobs' like selling phone service to people who already have phone service...which is what happened during the Clinton years.
Or selling postal services to people who don't ship enough to feed an ant and don't qualify for UPS/Fed ex shipper numbers which is what happened when Bush took over...ironically Obama has done NOTHING, maybe because the oligarchs realized they were chasing their tail! [but I doubt that.]
Yeah, I've seen/worked some of those 'made up' jobs and both endeavors folded up like cardboard shacks once market saturation was achieved. [Mostly because they were 'unprofitable'...a big 'job killer' under capitalism. Did you know that almost all public infrastructure jobs cost more than they yield [including/especially schools]?
It's what comes out 'the other end' that makes them worthwhile.
Sewage is a class A great idea because before 'plumbing' came along it was more than just horse shit that you had to wade through to get anywhere!
Really went off 'on a tangent' with this post, my most humble apologies!
What I'm pointing to is the crushing poverty that has been the 'by-product' of the global consolidation of MARKET SHARE!
It's what the capitalist 'players' of global monopoly have really been up to. The 'cost savings' of 'artificially manipulated' labor pools is really just an exercise in 'hand-waving'. The 'cheaper there' doesn't really exist.
With the 'consolidation' of market share came a huge boost in automation, driven by relocating old enterprises to 'updated' facilities.
So the 'labor force participation rate continues to fall...and under the current model, there is nothing 'new' to be done.
Understand, the capitalist model is based on providing life's necessities to one another. If you 'automate' ANY of those processes, the robots don't buy what they produce and the 'surplus population' rises.
Surplus populations are a disaster waiting to happen...but our 'betters' appear not to have figured that out!
Allow me to rewind for a moment, under Obama we turned the nation's police force into an ad hoc collection agency...with an emphasis on 'production'.
Under 'debt driven capitalism' paying those debts [even if you can't afford it] is 'the law'. Um, it's not what 'police forces were established to do and 'perceived abuse of legal authority' is what drives most revolts.
Did I mention the 'colossal stupidity' of our betters?
Because the factors I point to above aren't just happening here in the US, the coming 'crisis' is GLOBAL.
Now I ask you, how insane is it to base your civilization on a GAME whose objective is to BANKRUPT all of the other players?
They named the game Monopoly but it's capitalism writ large!
Last two words in any game of Monopoly are a capitalist's favorite 'Pay me!'
Hate to clue you good citizen but this isn't about YOU! [But YOU know that, otherwise you wouldn't be here!]
Thanks once again for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
PS: This planet we NEED to share [with more than just our fellow humans ] is a mighty f'd up place but that's because we let the 'self-interested' get away with too much for too long.
Time to drop the hammer and straighten out what's left before they drive the smokin' wreck off a cliff!
There's still a lot of 'mileage' to be had from this old girl but we need to free her from the grip of the selfish few...
Left to our collective imagination is just how bad is it out there, really?
First thing most of us don't think about is since your ability to vote is linked directly to the annual town census, how many millions didn't vote in the recent election/debacle because they lacked 'proof of residence'?
Then there is the [heavily manipulated] Labor force participation rate, literally MILLIONS of YOUNG MEN are living off their parents because there ARE NO JOBS.
Remember the conundrum of capitalism, if you can't live on what your employer pays you it's not his problem, IT'S YOURS
Since rent travels in lock-step with mortgages [in case you ever wondered how landlords arrived at how much the dump that hasn't been reno'd in forty years is worth they want to rent YOU] You are answered. The 'prevailing current mortgage payment' is the basis for all rent pricing decisions.
That's why two or even several minimum wage jobs isn't sufficient for a majority of millennials to leave their parents house.
My 21 year old is making 'move out' noises but they are exactly that. He ain't goin' nowhere until one of his buddies hits the lottery.
It won't be him, he doesn't play. He thinks it's stupid...but if he could get back just a nickel on every dollar he's spent on Magic Cards he'd have his 'first and last!'
So there lies the 'Tip of the Iceberg', tens of millions of kids who have been waiting [some more than a decade] to 'get their feet under them' and start a life 'on their own.
All money is 'funny' and it's the 'abuse' of this property that leads to the kind of 'inflationary cycle' that prices hundreds of millions out of the 'future'. Remember, King of the Hill doesn't stop once you achieve 'more than you can spend status', they forever watch one another and keep building their stack higher in a perverse competition nobody cares about but them...[which is a little misleading, the gold-diggers care too because axiom number two is ever and always 'it's easier to take it than to make it!]
That and 'A fool and his money' isn't exclusive to the young...supposedly 'wiser heads' have found themselves in the unfortunate position of being 'old enough to know better but too horny to care!'
So it is the 'stockpiles' of the 'Freakishly Selfish' that drive prices ever upward because there is no mechanism to 'retire' money that has been used/spent.
Under A Simple Plan, once spent, the money is erased from your account, NOBODY gets it! [You've already been paid for your labor by your 'true employer' society. There is no need to pay you twice.
The 'business' that produced the product doesn't 'need the money', resources are FREE, Mother Nature DOESN'T HAVE A CASH REGISTER!
Understand, when we 'convert' to the new system, all of that paper will go 'poof'...so will the electronic accounts it's stored in. What you HAD is gone. BETTER, you won't have the ability to, er, 'bequest' your remaining funds when you die because the ability to transfer funds between individuals is strictly prohibited. When you die, your money dies with you!
The 'inability' to transfer funds between individual is born of the fact that many lack the necessary management skills to hold on to their money. By limiting where money can be spent it eliminates MOST TYPES of 'poverty'.
Drugs will be legal and you'll be able to buy them with few restrictions. There will be dosing standards that can't be exceeded but some people will find themselves unable to fulfill their obligations because they were 'too stoned' to report on time for their job.
Once, we turn our heads, happens to the best of us...twice, you're going for treatment...strike three and you're OUT [as in exiled.]
Once should be enough for most people to clean their act up. We may not do anything the first time but your 'free ride' is officially 'spent'.
But I digress. I share that to provide you with a 'clear picture' of what I propose. Understand, even the 'airy fairy' gift social model will sprout teeth and claws if/when it starts to fall apart.
I'd rather 'lay it on the line' upfront than have the [inevitable] 'I didn't know' come popping out when Joe/Jane Slacker finally figure out the guaranteed job works BOTH WAYS!
YOU ARE GUARANTEED A JOB AND YOU DAMN WELL BETTER DO IT!
They won't be 'stupid jobs' like selling phone service to people who already have phone service...which is what happened during the Clinton years.
Or selling postal services to people who don't ship enough to feed an ant and don't qualify for UPS/Fed ex shipper numbers which is what happened when Bush took over...ironically Obama has done NOTHING, maybe because the oligarchs realized they were chasing their tail! [but I doubt that.]
Yeah, I've seen/worked some of those 'made up' jobs and both endeavors folded up like cardboard shacks once market saturation was achieved. [Mostly because they were 'unprofitable'...a big 'job killer' under capitalism. Did you know that almost all public infrastructure jobs cost more than they yield [including/especially schools]?
It's what comes out 'the other end' that makes them worthwhile.
Sewage is a class A great idea because before 'plumbing' came along it was more than just horse shit that you had to wade through to get anywhere!
Really went off 'on a tangent' with this post, my most humble apologies!
What I'm pointing to is the crushing poverty that has been the 'by-product' of the global consolidation of MARKET SHARE!
It's what the capitalist 'players' of global monopoly have really been up to. The 'cost savings' of 'artificially manipulated' labor pools is really just an exercise in 'hand-waving'. The 'cheaper there' doesn't really exist.
With the 'consolidation' of market share came a huge boost in automation, driven by relocating old enterprises to 'updated' facilities.
So the 'labor force participation rate continues to fall...and under the current model, there is nothing 'new' to be done.
Understand, the capitalist model is based on providing life's necessities to one another. If you 'automate' ANY of those processes, the robots don't buy what they produce and the 'surplus population' rises.
Surplus populations are a disaster waiting to happen...but our 'betters' appear not to have figured that out!
Allow me to rewind for a moment, under Obama we turned the nation's police force into an ad hoc collection agency...with an emphasis on 'production'.
Under 'debt driven capitalism' paying those debts [even if you can't afford it] is 'the law'. Um, it's not what 'police forces were established to do and 'perceived abuse of legal authority' is what drives most revolts.
Did I mention the 'colossal stupidity' of our betters?
Because the factors I point to above aren't just happening here in the US, the coming 'crisis' is GLOBAL.
Now I ask you, how insane is it to base your civilization on a GAME whose objective is to BANKRUPT all of the other players?
They named the game Monopoly but it's capitalism writ large!
Last two words in any game of Monopoly are a capitalist's favorite 'Pay me!'
Hate to clue you good citizen but this isn't about YOU! [But YOU know that, otherwise you wouldn't be here!]
Thanks once again for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
PS: This planet we NEED to share [with more than just our fellow humans ] is a mighty f'd up place but that's because we let the 'self-interested' get away with too much for too long.
Time to drop the hammer and straighten out what's left before they drive the smokin' wreck off a cliff!
There's still a lot of 'mileage' to be had from this old girl but we need to free her from the grip of the selfish few...
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