Jobs and Excess Labor
Nov 14
One Job Away From Being Unemployed
To begin with, let all the employed not forget the disturbing images of the homeless and destitute here and abroad roaming the urban backwaters searching for a place to eat, sleep and survive.
With that in mind, one can only wonder at the absurdity of an ever-growing labor pool competing for a finite or diminishing amount of employment opportunities.
Declining Wages and Excess Labor
- The current recession, and even the current decade has shown that wages for both skilled and unskilled labor has and will continue to spiral downward because of an over abundance of labor
- Legal and illegal immigration in this country and high birthrates combined with great migrations from the agrarian countryside to industrial urban centers around the world have led to destabilized economies
- If that is not bad enough, consider the quandary of this government and others in generating and creating opportunities for its excess labor resources, especially in states and countries least able to afford and implement such expenditures
- The Underground or Shadow Economies will surely flourish without employment planning
A Common Goal For Market Economies
- A prerequisite for any market economy should be a cohesive relationship between employers, employees and their communities
- That will not happen without determined prior planning and substantial injections of both private and public financial resources
- That planning must insure overall populations that remain small, stable and educated
- With wages and salaries that reflect the inherent and equal value of every individual, whether owner, management or labor
- All would share to some extent in both profits or losses
Communities and governments must be willing and able to use public monies and regulation to create education and training facilities.
Together education and training can nurture and reinforce limiting populations, stabilizing the supply of labor and therefore maintaining higher wages and salaries, so every potential employee can fairly compete for a living-wage position.
Labor To Be Considered a Public Good
By changing attitudes towards labor and viewing jobs as a public good, to be protected and esteemed rather than just another tool in the chain of production, businesses, companies and corporations will begin to see dramatically increased output and profits.
That is a great benefit not only for employees, but also employers, communities and society as a whole.
