roachboy

see this is the problem, really. the idea that there can be a "recovery" of any kind with this type of unemployment abroad in the land is entirely absurd. the only viewpoint from which it makes sense is one that presupposes the activities of the stock market reflect the well-being of all, as if there is only one economic class in the united states and that understood along lines that the beginning of lake wobegone stories make fun of.

the underlying problems that the new geography of capitalist organization--which is not that new, but we're only waking up to it---include the increasing irrelevance of nation-states. one of the central problems created by this irrelevance is the limitations this places on a nation-state's abilities to act to assure its own socio-economic well-being. you'd think that faced with un-and under-employment numbers of **anything** like those outlined in the article that the united states would be acting, and acting quickly, to spur new job creation as a matter of great urgency...spot funding activity in economic sectors, supporting new start-ups, easing credit for expansion, mandating that technological infrastructures be modified so as not to exclude actual human beings from working---all this in addition to the public-sector oriented actions that i hear about but have so far seen nothing come of.


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addendum: let's say that there's a kind of scaling cycle characteristic of contemporary manufacturing concerns, that they move to a medium-scale and then end up fragmented, more often than not a distribution hub that remains viable through its control of intellectual property (god i hate that category)/patents and maybe assembly points, but **definitely** clients---and that these larger-scale fragmentations tend to conform to the new world order of a race to the bottom in terms of wages, working conditions, social responsibility on the part of suppliers etc...because supply pools allow from the endless replacement of suppliers one for the other, all context is stripped out of the relation of purchaser (firms, once-upon-a-time manufacturer) to supplier...so no responsibility at all really....anyway: you'd think that even if this were the case that such a scale-cycle exists that it'd **still** make sense for national governments to actively plan and/or fund smaller-to-medium size concerns in all kinds of areas as a way of generating employment and revenue and that maybe around this planning area new types of education could be worked out that'd make flexibility something more than a word you read in management literature.

there are things that can be done.

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