That the neofeudal lords and their lackeys provide the debt-serfs “choices” of forced labor would be comic if the outcomes weren’t so tragic.
We know we’re close to the minute when Whatever Solid Melts into Air when amazing breakdowns are dealt with as common and the “news” quickly goes back to chatter. So over 4 million American employees up and quit monthly, month after month after month, and the response is ho-hum, labor shortage, blah, blah, blah, toy lack for Christmas, oh, the scary, blah, blah, blah.
These are great deals. Over 10 million job openings and 6 million hires and 6 million “separations,” i.e. layoffs and the 4.3 million voluntary quits.
The delighted story promoted by the corporate media is that this huge churn is the outcome of glossy, happy people moving up the work food cycle to better paying jobs. We know we’re close to the minute when Whatever Solid Melts into Air when every breakdown is immediately remodelled into a delighted story in which everything is getting better every day, in every method.
The truth nobody in power wishes to acknowledge, much less address, is that countless employees are pulling out or burning out and they’re not returning. Another pleased story promoted by the corporate media is that as soon as all the gummit giveaways ended, the lazy no-good workforce would be required to take whatever sorrowful task the billionaires require done at low pay and no advantages. (However hey, you qualify for food stamps, so it’s all excellent!)
A considerable share of the workforce has actually declared “up yours” and another share has actually been so stressed out by overwork and constant pressure that they’re done: they can no longer operate at this speed and for that lots of hours.
This infuriates the lackeys, toadies, apparatchiks and apologists of the billionaires: how attempt you escape from required labor! The whole economy is based upon the bleak option of take the job we provide or starve.
The “innovation” (pay attention, neofeudal lords) from SillyCon Valley is to use an impression of “option” in this required labor system: in the gig economy, you get to “select” in between Gulag Camp One (low pay, long hours, absolutely no advantages and zero security) and Gulag Camp Two (low pay, long hours, absolutely no advantages and no security).
Wow! Who understood “option” was so life-changing? In a similar fashion, when you can no longer afford rent, utilities, etc, then you get a “option” of residing in your automobile, if you have one, or making a crate-tent “home” or taking control of the ruined camper left by the man who made the one-way trip to the morgue.
That the neofeudal lords and their lackeys use the debt-serfs “choices” of required labor would be comic if the outcomes weren’t so terrible. The neofeudal status quo is so busy chasing down escapees from the forced-work Gulags that it won’t notice its Wile E. Coyote moment when Whatever Solid Merges Air.
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