The circulation of money is something i dont give a crap about; What i care about is the circulation of goods, the facilitation of which is the original purpose of money. From the way economists talk these days, you'd think the purpose of money is its own circulation.
Tuesday the twenty-third is the beginning - for me - of yet another "course" at a group called Action 4 Employment (yes, the name has a number in place of the word "for") where (i just received the form) the first step will be to review my Cvrricvlvm Vitae for the .. fourth time, this year ?
Yet it is amazing, in a bad way, how people will blatantly ignore whatever is written in it, mark my words and may i be wrong.
Example : Jobcentreplus, four weeks ago (again) : "hello mr. Bokken(not my real name), i see here you have listed you were a PA for the head of the Left Wing in the government, and handled confidential information; how would you like to clean dishes for a living ?"
Moving to England has destroyed me. This was the worst idea i could possibly come up with; Or maybe i would have fared just as badly in Italy, but one thing is for sure, i should have stayed in Boston, no matter what i had to do to make it happen. This, is not America.
And so i find my unedited posts starting with "the circulation of money..." where i would have written how the anachronistic monetary system we all use cannot survive overpopulation, the age of information, a salaried population and a slew of other sociogeographical changes that have come about since the 30s. And at the same time i am getting turned down for jobs peeling potatoes and answering telephones. If i had a dollar for everytime i read the phrase "must have excellent communication skills" i would be well off to owning a Core i7 system by now.
To make a point about the recession, i like to quote how the Mafia takes only ten percent, so with them in government i would have an extra 18% of money left after taxes. Taxation at 28% for the lowest strata is ridiculous already, when considered that the average rate of pay has declined in three years from almost £8/h to barely £6/h, resulting in a wage that earns you two-thirds of what is poverty level, so the fabled change has to happen, now.
When i first came in the UK, in 1990 (a country i more or less expected to find unchanged, it was), there was a pub on the corner of Tottenham Court Road i used to go to that would charge £2.85 for a pint of Guinnes. Today, they charge £3.20. That is fucking ridiculous. England used to be mythical for how expensive it was. In the same days, a can of Coke in Italy was 300lire, while now its 2000. that 7 times the moneys. So, a pint of beer should be £20, wages should be at anything between £20 to £35 an hour, basic, and everything would be OK. No one would be offended by a £460 weekly rent for a studio flat.
The reasons for these discrepancies are evident to me - and i wouldn't blame you for not knowing them - but if they aren't to you, i am sorry but i will not explain. Not got time, you see.
My real problem is that the society that created me, who demanded well learned young boys who could tackle any problem and understand the intricacies of class relationships, simply does not exist anymore. Just as the proud Athenian warrior who bravely chatters nonchalantly to his Trojan opponent as bronze-tipped ashen spears fly by his head has been replaced by the grunt, whose education level is better when is lower, the workplace reflects the same ideology: "We don't need them smart, we need them stupid".
I recall a saying by famous German dictator, "don't give me men of intellect, give me men of violence".
So, what is it relevant to if i know the Dust Bowl and how the Ghost of Tom Joad relates to our modern education system.. proper-waged jobs don't exist anymore, they have all been replaced by more efficient low-wage workers Not only does automation dehumanize the work rhythms, but also overpopulation drives the need for work as it becomes no longer an activity, but a commodity.
Think how the recession is once again helping the rich against the not as rich: as my money influx lessens, i must resort to shopping at Tesco discount supermarket. Less earnings for the local butcher means that he will have to fire the girl who works for him and then she will too have to go to Tesco for food.
Poverty is the best thing a rich man can hope for.
Earlier in our history it was not thus, for we worked the land - i know, a lot of idiots with a degree will think that this is a simplistic view, although it *is* shown how in 80 years we have gone from 70% self employed to 30% self employed, but in substance what we need to survive is not money, but goods.
I can't, for the life of me, get any food if not from a shop. I have no access to wildlife and even if, i have no weapons or hunting skills, and am also not legally allowed to hunt. Then it makes me mad at* the stupidity when a conglomerate says it has created jobs -
(*poetic licence)
Jobs are not created - they are controlled.
A timbering factory doesn't create jobs - the trees create jobs -
More specifically, they create work potential, by letting you work on cutting the trees, you have some activity to invest time on, and the invested time can then be exchanged for goods from those who need timber but spend time on a different job, and this, is called Work.
If a company "creates 300 jobs" they in effect are "controlling" 300 jobs that could have been performed without the need of a company in the first place - i don't need the company, all i need is the trees.I have trees, i cut trees.I Work.
Services are even more stupid: the whole concept of "service" is translated to "superficial". ie, i am so rich i can afford to pay someone else who does this "service" for me. We as a technological society have an overabundance of services, which are a drain to society and do not produce anything - forgive my marxism - and thus are a false hope of Work, as in practice we have too many skilled workers and no real Work to put them to. Sure we can have a Wage, but what future does a Wage hold?
Will i ever buy a house with it, much less two? Will i be able to retire and own a business?
I assert that no, Wages do not bring about a successful life, simply because there is no chance of career - because there are no careers - they have all been filled up: over a territory of control, all the resources already have long since a controlling entity attached to it, and they aren't budging... and from the way i see it, i doubt there will be many new resources coming to the fore.
Forget what they say in school that the more talented become the upper crust, it's the ruthless and criminal.
Do you know what it takes to be the successful manager of a large company? Do you know what it takes to be the PA of a politician, the Director of a production unit, the Sales Advisor of a group, the Buyer of a society?
Takes nothing, that's what.
Maybe i have been "excessively" educated but i haven't yet found anything challenging in any work situation i have been, yet. As today, keep your eyes and ears open, your hands and clothes clean, and do your homework, and *holy cow* the job always turns out right, for some reason. The only times i had any trouble was when confronted by dishonesty and crime, but when the business is serious it's all plain sailing.
So what is it?
I have know of the recession since 2007, long before it was in the papers. All the sudden, people just didn't have the money anymore. Because, they had no way to earn it. EVERYONE was trapped into a slave wage situation.
Why didn't the smart people who are much smarter than me by definition, since they *are* in power while i am obviously not, not noticed that the waged population was becoming excessively large, then increase the minimum wage *severely* to make THE WORKERS a commodity, and not THE JOBS ??
I was going to say something about the banks, but it would be fucking stupid. The problem is more extensive, it's how we got to be a world of slaves. If i owned a farm, i would care nothing about the money - if it went, you'll get some more. And you still have the farm. But seems people have already thought of that, and arable land is all taken up. And every other resource.
We are, gentlemen and Ladies, Royally Screwed. Me more than You.
Nov 2010 (my b-day, couple days off), 5:18 AM,
Good Luck.
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