Over the past few years, I’ve been more-or-less pushed into the sidelines of society. It has given me something of a unique perspective. It is easier to see some things from the outside.
For today, I’ll focus on jobs.
It is worth noting that capitalism requires unemployment to operate. People must feel desperate, must feel that there is a real possibility of homelessness and starvation so that they are willing to accept grueling working conditions for low pay.
It seems like everyone knows that there are currently only a handful of jobs actually available. The cause is the same cause as most problems facing society: greed and corruption being the primary “controls” over power. But the media likes to blame to different things: one group blames immigrants (by which they just mean people who are not white) and other blames the other group (failing to recognize the problem existed when they were still in power).
So when reports come out telling us all what we already intuitively know, people are fired for speaking the truth. And the other side claims there is nothing they can do because they are not in power (and they largely lost their power because they chose to support genocide).
The result is that there are more and more people without reliable income. People are encouraged to be afraid. They are encouraged to scapegoat their neighbors. When their neighbors are disappeared, nothing improves. If those people had really been “stealing” anyone’s job, wouldn’t there at least be more jobs? The fact is that those in power require a lot of us to be in poverty.
This machine runs on our blood, sweat and tears. This machine does not serve us. None of this should be news to you. Sometimes, even the regular media will report this. What they don’t report is what we should actually do. The answer is actually very simple: nothing. As in, do not feed the beast — a general strike has worked time and time again. This is only one vector of approaching one of the problems in society, but this is a simple and effective solution. The vast majority of us keep this machine running, although it does nothing but harm us. If you want change, stop feeding the beast which is out for our blood.