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Ruthless Critisicm (September 2012)

Von • Sep. 10th, 2012 • Kategorie: International

Ruthless Critisicm (September 2012):

The big number: The latest unemployment statistics are announced

Today, like every month, it is said that the disaster on the labor market continues, that America’s number one economic problem is more pressing than ever, and no “improvement of the situation” is in sight. But obviously America is not suffering that badly from this ongoing number one problem. How could it? The jobs and livelihoods of those who depend on work are not the purpose of the economy, but are byproducts of the profit calculations of the entrepreneurs: a wage exists when it is good for profit and doesn’t if it isn’t.

American multinationals increase their competitiveness and earnings by continuously reducing their costs: they get more and more productive work from the people they pay to have it done, so that they have to employ fewer people and pay less in wages. It simply has nothing to do with the livelihoods of those who lose their jobs. But their no longer existing work is also missed by nobody, neither the companies nor the state: if their services for profit are no longer in demand, then they lose nothing from their non-employment; for the wealth at stake, their work would be useless. As long as they are not rebellious, their plight doesn’t disturb any of the relevant authorities.

That the unemployed are counted and not, like elsewhere, simply forgotten, is an honor that the community does for them. It calculates the temporarily or permanently superfluous citizens who still have the potential to be national labor power and thus expresses an unwavering political ideal: for the administrators of the nation, it would be preferable if the 12.8 million superfluous people were still usable for profit. If they could be used profitably, more profits would be made in the USA than currently, tax sources would swell and contributions would flow into state coffers. Of course, it would be absurd if, for the sake of this ideal, sight was lowered from the sole purpose for which work is done: Work or livelihoods without profit – or even at the expense of profitability – is out of the question.

The honor of not being forgotten is not a promise to the unemployed, but a demand: If they are not used, then they are not profitable, i.e. their claims on income from work are an employment barrier that needs to be fixed: the American wage is too high, the performance and availability of labor power is too low. The unemployment figures prove it! Democracy is not ashamed of its forever unsolved problem, but month after month spells out the employed and unemployed who represent the already significantly lower standard of living.

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