15-02-2014, 09:42 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:I remember a friend was working in the government department in charge of employment in the late 1970's early '80s and he was told from on high that they would be abandoning any 'full employment' goals. Being only a middle ranking worker drone in the public service department at the time he couldn't understand it. Capitalism loves a nice big pool of unemployed to keep pressure on wages low. The very last thing a government for capitalists want is full employment. And the fact is that there simply are not enough jobs to go around for every one that wants one. We need to re think our whole attitude and relationship to work, labour, income and leisure.
I fell sure this was a Thatcher government "initiative" - as you say, keep an unemployed pool high to keep them keen and press wages down. For me, the same thing is happening with the influx of cheap labour from eastern Europe and the southern hemisphere. The whole strategy is to depress accepted wage standards down to the very minimum - with almost zero protection on the exploitation side of things.
Likewise, everyone has known for years, probably decades, that there are always far more applicants for jobs - usually dozens upon dozens -- and far less jobs available. This clearly suggests that the whole government strategy on their treatment of the unemployed is utterly sinister.
Spread fear, keep workers mean, keep wages low ---- it's all about control.
And all the political parties play the same game. Because they are all the same, with political differences being mostly a shadow play.
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