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nice work, ace. classic. so what you're saying here so far is that there's nothing about this current situation insofar as employment is concerned that's not understandable as normal for Magic Capitalism, that infinitely expandable and contractible imaginary system in which everything is always fine because the boundaries that we're talking about move in and out arbitrarily. so in this world, the 30 year pattern of fragmentation of what once were basic manufacturing operations is of no real consequence. it doesn't even register because now normal can be expanded to include that, no problem, because in the end normal is arbitrary. so looking at detroit, say, where housing values have collapse entirely because the fucking economy has more or less disappeared, what you're saying is:
1. this is normal.
2. what isn't normal is the fault of the government
3. the consequences are really the fault of the unemployed who can always get jobs at walmart.
so what you're offering is the same old conservative capitalism-cannot-be-a-problem so the problem is either the government or you. so exactly the same "thinking" that got us collectively here in the first place.
in general, we have the simple reality of the change of organization and by extension geography of manufacturing.
we have an educational system which has never caught up with these changes really, so which continues to produce an outmoded class profile, an outmoded labor pool. but conservatives dont care because they dont fucking live in the same neighborhoods as are really affected by this and besides its their fault anyway.
the effects of this had been forestalled by all kinds of goofball devices, not least of which was conservative economy ideology itself which functioned for 30 years as the lingua franca, the "washington consensus" blah blah blah---and about the consequences of this ideology, conservative economic ideology has nothing, at all, to say.
this is compounded by the consequences of the conservative-inspired debt bubble, an economic idea that has to have been put into place with one or another idea of the end times behind the scenes somewhere.
then there's the credit contraction--uh, yeah---in commercial lending that's in the way of anything like expansion of jobs so long as the private sector is the main source of money.
and we have a centrist administration that continues to act as though conservatives have fuck all to say about anything that's any different from the thinking that got us into this mess in the first place.
no wonder you prefer to pretend nothing's broken, ace.
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