03-11-2015, 09:48 AM
I feel sure there is something very odd about this. Merkel's out of the blue decision to accept 1 million refugees came as a shock, I think.
I also think there is some validity in the corporate cheap labour argument, which I sense is behind the large scale and ongoing immigration in the UK, and we have seen this impacts on wages over the last 3 decades - namely a polarisation of the labour market.
I was also interested that Cameron agreed only to take refugees in this latest crisis from refugee camps bordering Syria and refused point blank to take any of those flooding into Europe.
Anyway, here is the Greenhill paper referenced above.
PS, I seem to vaguely recall that Noam Chomsky discussed this years and years ago in his small book, What Uncle Sam Really Wants. I think he outlined the plan back at the turn of the last century where the decision has been made to export workers jobs from the west to eastern Europe, where the wages were a lot lower at the time, but that the arrival of communism disrupted that plan. Following the collapse of communism cira 1990, this old plan (I think anyway) was dusted down and China was chosen to be the new cheap labour pool leading to the destruction of large numbers of jobs in the US and Europe etc. Add to this the reliability of automatons and robots, who needs unskilled labour anymore? Off with their heads.
I also think there is some validity in the corporate cheap labour argument, which I sense is behind the large scale and ongoing immigration in the UK, and we have seen this impacts on wages over the last 3 decades - namely a polarisation of the labour market.
I was also interested that Cameron agreed only to take refugees in this latest crisis from refugee camps bordering Syria and refused point blank to take any of those flooding into Europe.
Anyway, here is the Greenhill paper referenced above.
PS, I seem to vaguely recall that Noam Chomsky discussed this years and years ago in his small book, What Uncle Sam Really Wants. I think he outlined the plan back at the turn of the last century where the decision has been made to export workers jobs from the west to eastern Europe, where the wages were a lot lower at the time, but that the arrival of communism disrupted that plan. Following the collapse of communism cira 1990, this old plan (I think anyway) was dusted down and China was chosen to be the new cheap labour pool leading to the destruction of large numbers of jobs in the US and Europe etc. Add to this the reliability of automatons and robots, who needs unskilled labour anymore? Off with their heads.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14