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Europe Has A Solution For The Unemployment Problem: Fake Jobs
The jobs gap that has characterized the global economy since the crisis has cost some $1.2 trillion in lost wages and nearly $4 trillion in GDP. Employment growth worldwide has been just 1.4% since 2001, well below the 1.7% pace that prevailed prior to 2008. The result: there are 61 million fewer people employed globally than there would have been if pre-crisis trends had prevailed.
In the eurozone, where unemployment stands at 11.3% and where some countries — Spain being a prime example — are struggling under unemployment rates that approximate what the US experienced during the Great Depression, the ECB has been forced to effectively abandon its “single mandate” of promoting price stability in favor of a stance that’s more in-line with the Fed’s dual mandate that encompasses both price stability and maximum employment.
Against this backdrop, many Europeans are struggling to find work, but have no fear, Europe has a solution: fake jobs. The New York Times has more:
At 9:30 a.m. on a sunny weekday, the phones at Candelia, a purveyor of sleek office furniture in Lille, France, rang steadily with orders from customers across the country and from Switzerland and Germany. A photocopier clacked rhythmically while more than a dozen workers processed sales, dealt with suppliers and arranged for desks and chairs to be shipped.
Sabine de Buyzer, working in the accounting department, leaned into her computer and scanned a row of numbers. Candelia was doing well. Its revenue that week was outpacing expenses, even counting taxes and salaries. “We have to be profitable,” Ms. de Buyzer said. “Everyone’s working all out to make sure we succeed.”
This was a sentiment any boss would like to hear, but in this case the entire business is fake. So are Candelia’s customers and suppliers, from the companies ordering the furniture to the trucking operators that make deliveries. Even the bank where Candelia gets its loans is not real.
Candelia is one of a number of so-called “Potemkin” companies operating in France. Everything about these entities is imaginary from the customers, to the supply chain, to the banks, to the “wages” employees receive and while the idea used to be that the creation of a “parallel economic universe” would help to train the jobless and prepare them for real employment sometime in the future, these “occupations” are now serving simply as way for the out-of-work to suspend reality for eight hours a day. Here’s The Times again:
These companies are all part of an elaborate training network that effectively operates as a parallel economic universe. For years, the aim was to train students and unemployed workers looking to make a transition to different industries. Now they are being used to combat the alarming rise in long-term unemployment, one of the most pressing problems to emerge from Europe’s long economic crisis.
Ms. de Buyzer did not care that Candelia was a phantom operation. She lost her job as a secretary two years ago and has been unable to find steady work. Since January, though, she had woken up early every weekday, put on makeup and gotten ready to go the office. By 9 a.m. she arrives at the small office in a low-income neighborhood of Lille, where joblessness is among the highest in the country.
While she doesn’t earn a paycheck, Ms. de Buyzer, 41, welcomes the regular routine. She hopes Candelia will lead to a real job, after countless searches and interviews that have gone nowhere.
“It’s been very difficult to find a job,” said Ms. de Buyzer, who like most of the trainees has been collecting unemployment benefits. “When you look for a long time and don’t find anything, it’s so hard. You can get depressed,” she said. “You question your abilities. After a while, you no longer see a light at the end of the tunnel.”
This comes as Europe's long-term employment problem deepens and triggers what we have described as a sell-fulfilling prophecy wherein unemployment leads to lower aggregate wages which in turn spells lower consumer spending, crippling the economy and discouraging companies from hiring:
Yet long-term unemployment — the kind that Ms. de Buyzer and nearly 10 million others in the eurozone are experiencing — has become a defining reality.
Last year, a staggering 52.6 percent of unemployed people in the eurozone were without work for a year or more, the highest on record, according to Eurostat, and many of those have been jobless more than two years.
“If you have a significant part of the population that’s not integrated, they won’t increase their spending, which dampens a possible recovery,” said Paul de Grauwe, a professor of European political economy at the London School of Economics. When a large number of people go jobless for long stretches, “you also subdue optimism, which will weigh on an economic turnaround"...
"It’s worrisome because we’re talking about many people who have been out of work for a very long time,” said Stefano Scarpetta, the director of employment, labor and social affairs at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. “Their skills can become obsolete. They get stigmatized. They risk being disconnected from the workplace and society, with negative implications for them, their families and the economy.”
Of course, in today's global economy, it's difficult to propser even if you're a make-believe company which is why it shouldn't surprise you to learn that "Animal Kingdom", a fake pet store, is on the verge of fake bankruptcy:
She looked at a stack of invoices, including some orders from virtual companies that had not been paid. “If this keeps up we’ll go out of business,” Mrs. Banuelos said, handing the papers to two women with instructions to follow up. “What’s our strategy to improve profitability?” she asked the group.
But never fear Potemkin companies, because you are not alone. There are other entities out there who are going bankrupt on paper while making things up as they go along in a "parallel" universe — those entities are called "central banks."
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Pretty soon there won't be enough wool ski masks with no eye holes to go around.
The only thing I fear about this shitshows inevitable outcome now is that those responsible won't get their street justice.
They should do what China does.
REAL jobs, building fake cities !
This is all just so insane. Fuck, maybe I'm in a padded room right now and I've been imagining the last 15 or so years.
Just think that this is the Dystopia of the future where nobody does anything productive as robotics have taken over everything and "businesses" like this have to turn people away as the population panics trying to find something, anything from which to carve the slightest sense of self esteem and a raison d'etre.
Gonna suck even worse than today.
No idleness, serf.
Pretending to Work Makes Free
The Banality of the Banality of Evil
Jobs where people do nothing, have no responsibliities, and can never be fired?
In the US they call that "working for the government."
Craigslist, where 90% of the post are fake scammers / spamming from 3rd world nations...
It's important to remember that Satan enjoys anal sex, so please try to avoid it. Thank you.
How did you ascertain that bit of knowledge? Not through virtue of personal experience I hope.
(Couldn't resist.)
Actually if you view his video he claims to have been a gay porno actor.
pretty much what i was thinking- but a mix of brave new world, resident evil , soylent green and the matrix where the slave classes (ie pretty much everyone cept the overlord bankers/umbrella corporation heads and those with specialized skills) are fed their soma drug and a place to go to pretend to work during the day--all part of the system to keep the uneducated masses placid... (this is before they figure out how to plug people into the matrix directly) and the masters can use the masses as they need for slave labor if necessary. (they feed the masses to the masses, of course). increasing welfare societies and these fake jobs are the beginning of a sad kind of future for humanity perhaps.
If you are, then you're the newbie next door, I've been locked in my padded cell since the 80's.
Welcome to the matrix neo...
Your are not a slave but simply a duracell battery producing energy for the collective.
Fine, but I want my fake job to be in the porn industry. If we're gonna make this shit up, lets at least have some fun at it.
I want to be a fake professional baseball player.
I want to be an employee at a fake central bank, where I can play with fake gold bars all day and create pretend money all day
Wait, you're telling me that's all they do at a REAL central bank? Fuck.... I'm so confused right now.
It's time for a fake brokerage so I can earn some fake money from fake investments so I can buy some of that fake SLV.
Awesome!
Be kinda like getting a hand job on my first date
She never showed
Fine! You are Long Dong Pairadimes on your final shoot in the Middle East servicing a series of harems then the production crew when all of a sudden you flatline. You are rushed to the nearest "hospital", where the Top Medic camel pronounces you DOA, Definitely Over Acting.
Which turns into the dream sequence of you being used by the young male bearded super hairy body doctors as an experiment for a new life saving technique of inserting meat tubes in your orifices.
Don't worry, you can pretend to like it!
You realize now, to your horror, that you are strapped to an examing table in the DUMB under Dulce, New Meheeco. You are beginning to deeply regret your choice to enter the porn realm. Your hairy body doctor isn't so much hairy anymore as scaly....
Major Belly LOL
And he then realizes that it's not just "Shades of Rod Serling", standing there saying exactly that as he reaches up, starts unzipping his scalp and out steps the Reptilian overlord who "Just Fucking Want To Know Where My Fucking Gold Is" while in the background smell of molten Tungsten permeates the atmosphere.
You're as terrified as any man who has been caught being filmed in the masturbation scene by his mother can be, when she walks in and asks: "Timmy dear, where's your other little red sock.... Aggagagagggagghhhhh!".
And that's when his meat probe begins it's long "journey into darkness" as Hemingway so eloquently termed the once in a life time memorable experience
As Rod Serling unzips his scalp phallus you plead to God, which is interesting because you are an atheist, to be anywhere else. Then Hillary C enters the room.
As KlintonsKunt envelopes your face with seven layers of flab, untold layers of toilet tissue, and semi-dried Huma spit; your only breath comes direct from a publically flatulent anus, you gulp in methane as slime pours down your nostrils...
(I wanna play, too!)
I want to be a hashish tester.
so the nerds were right after all, the only jobs left are playing X box and masturbating.... anyone got some pot ? hell with it... perhaps i should just start smacking it up.... .
It's all falling down and not a second too soon.
If you think not having a job is depressing, imagine failing at fake business.
Are you kidding? You'll win the Nobel Peace Prize!
Ya'know, that's not at all unreal.
I work with people who are "struggling" through life. Drug and alcohol dependency, dual diagnoses, etc.
It's terribly sad to run across folks who are deeply depressed and I mean clinically, in need of the proper psychotropics, who've tried multiple times to commit suicide.
To fail multiple times committing suicide?
Oh fuck me.....
Human psychopathology is the most interesting subject matter I have ever discovered in my lifetime. Read Baron Von Krafft Ebing's _Psychopathia Sexualis_. Read _Freud The Biologist of the Mind_ by Frank Sulloway. Read Gregory Bateson or Humberto Maturana.
Pscho-stuff..
Me: "You're weird."
And I have/had a cousin that was written about in Helter Skelter (blew his brains out in his mothers Barbie Dream House about four years ago (she's since moved to a shack in Medford, Oregon.).)
Hippy-dippy wierd.
imagine showing up there for a job interview and being told you are over qualified.
Imagine showing up as a politician to the oligarchs and being told you are over qualified.
I get why Yellen, and our Leaders talk about Productivity exclusively. Because we are losing half our jobs.
All countries will have to be judged on Productivity, Added Value, Natural Resources Reserves, Farmland, Clean Water, Pollution footprint.
Some kind of Paradigm Shift from Work ethics to Ethos and Principals.
Maybe Conservative Banks will make a Come Back as fake productivity will be Revealed.
Maybe Robots can work with Standard Financial Instruments and Standard Accounting, Simplified, and Streamlined... to meet most of our needs in FIRES Industries.
Las time I was in Lille a decade ago, all I saw were Muslims. It's not a prosperous area. Certainly not a "Mecca" for jobs.
Yep, Rijsel is a bit of a dump these days. Which is mighty sad because it was quite a bustling industrial town not very long ago.
Muslims you say? We've got them everywhere, but look on the bright side:- think of them as Foods (mostly docile, breed fast) and a potential resource when things get a bit tougher.
In the 80's, my wife's home town smelled like shit, literally. They had a papermill, a chemical plant, a couple of fisheries and canning plants, there was a dock that unloaded god-awful shit from ships, and thre were so many planted pine trees that pine pollen would lay many low during the season. Her home town had a population, in 1983, of about 5,600, the papermill employed 7,000, the chemicla plant employed 1,300, the fishery employed 600 and the cannery employed 400.
Today, her hometown has 25,000 people. The papermill is gone, the chemical plant is gone, the fisheris are gone, canning is gone, and the dock is a harsh, empty place. Her hometown was absolutely destroyed by flood then yellow fever, back when it was the Capitol of Florida...now it's been destroyed by Government.
The only jobs there are highly coveted at various seafood restaurants and MikkieD's. My nephew works in the AF, my oldest niece, his wife, works as a nurse...all the rest are meth heads and welfare addicts, save one young lady that is desperately trying to get her shit together (I have little hope for her.)
This town literally had a split down the middle by railroad tracks...and the other side of the tracks were the black people. When I arrived there in 1978 the park in the middle of the town still had segregated water fountains. I had never, in my life, seen a 'White's Only' sign anywhere. (I'm a white guy.) It was appalling.
At the gas station next door, across the street, from the park I mentioned to the owner that it was really weird to see a 'White's Only' sign in this(that) day and age. Turned out the gas station owner was the mayor of the town for the last ten years and the next thirty or so. He asked who I was and I said I was Hubert's son in law. He said "you're the kid that married Debbie ain't you?" I said yes. He said, "You're from California, we do things a bit different here, get used to it and you'll go places."
Never did like that guy. And didn't accept the horrific invitation to join the local social club.
Spent the 80's and 90's as an outcast from the democrat scene, which was fine with me, I used to be republican.
How's the story end? Don't keep us in suspense, bro.
..and it's not just Lille / Rijsel. Calais, Dunkerke all have muslim enclaves and refugee "havens", come across a bit and over the border and even bloody Kortrijk has gone the same way.
Don't even get me started on Charleroi. Rijsel is pleasant in comparison... but it's all good - if they're not 'Foods' then they make up the demographic distortions of a post industrial society and introduce their own unique distortions into the civilization.
Doesn't matter if the jobs have been offshored to a different Bubble-continent now does it?
(And yeah, I want to hear how that story continues too)
The latter half of your story read like a bad fan fiction about the opening minutes of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, or a similar movie.
That you were in fact describing the reality of day-to-day life in this community is bone chilling.
Some people post about the Civil war and how the North wanted to ruin the economy in the South and had a post war program to continue to run the people in the South into the Ground.
Today Globalism and Free Trade are most of what is mentioned. Unions often did get too expensive in the North and the West Coast I would guess, compensation out the roof and few good private executives able to negotiate with the smart, clever, benefit savvy Unions.
Of course Private Executive Compensation has since got out of control to full retard level as the Unions died. Unions now are not the problem.
But I wonder about any hateful plan behind this.
TPTB seem to care little about the people or damage done to communities.
It would be great to see where the jobs are now. Good paying full time jobs. Charts or maps of cities or regions. Obviously if it is a tight knit Mormon community, then that might indicate Networks exist which advantage certain people. Union Shops might also keep us from jobs like in New Jersey or some place.
Maybe BusinessInsider has charts on this, but ZH might not post them here for various reasons. I'll have to look.
Just wait until the real labor camps start hiring.
"Welcome to Candelia #23. Remember: Work sets you free."
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
"We of the ReadyReserve and FEMA welcome you to Vandelay Industries #17. We would also like to remind you that work frees you, but working harder frees you sooner."
God almighty ! ! ! !
This world has indeed truly gone insane ! ! !
"Europe Has A Solution For The Unemployment Problem: Fake Jobs"
Nothing new, the greeks have been doing this for decades, paid for with money defrauded/stolen from bond buyers and lenders in the EZ.
BULLSHIT, Prober!
Most of the "money" that the Greeks "borrowed" was created out of nothing as debts. The groups of people that actually "lend" their own money, that they earned inside of the economic systems, are relatively trivial. Similarly, those people that "buy bonds" with their own money, that they earned inside of the economic systems, were also relatively trivial components of the overall systems based upon making billions and billions of Euros out of nothing as debts, which frauds were being enforced by governments.
Your view of how the political economy works, Prober, is a ridiculously superficial one. Unfortunately, judging from the up-votes that you have received for you comment above, as well as other similar comments you have made under other articles, too many other people who read Zero Hedge also have that distorted and over-simplified view of the political economy, where their own tiny keyhole of perceptions regarding what is going on are what they believe must be the whole story.
What you are stating is but an tiny aspect of the bigger picture, which you then are asserting as if it were the whole story, like the parable about the blind mind deciding what an elephant was, after each one touched a different part of that elephant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
EVERYONE is living INSIDE of a political economy based upon a foundation of ENFORCED FRAUDS. Those few people who use their savings to invest in bonds, or lend to others, are TRIVIAL in the overall bigger picture of what was really going on.
(As I replied in my agreement with bytebank, below.)
Fake jobs, kinda like bureaucrats?
Yea, except without the hookers and blow.
Everything else is fake why not your job? Or my job? Who even still knows what is real? What is the difference?
Fake money. Fake jobs. Fake statistics. Fake boobs .. we all make exceptions.
The history of the enforcement of frauds was not fake. The violence that backs up the lies was real enough. The PARADOXES of "fake money, fake jobs, fake statistics," etc., develop because it is actually possible to control civilization by systematically enforcing frauds. The established systems of legalized lies backed by legalized violence are both real and surreal, due to the ways that backing up lies with violence drives those lies to be treated as if they are true, despite that those lies never were true, and never could be made to become true, no matter how much violence backed those lies up.
Young people being trained in the context of fake jobs, where there will probably never be any real jobs, are young people being trained to accept the overwhelming systems of the biggest bullies' bullshit dominating everything. "... we all make exceptions" because of the history of successful warfare based upon deceits and treacheries, morphing into the history of successful finance based upon enforcing frauds.
"Who even still knows what is real?"
It is an extremely complicated, indeed, hyper-complicated situation! Anyone attempting to figure out "what is the difference" between relative lies and relative truths has to try to comprehend the ways that lies can be backed up with violence, or frauds enforced. EVERYTHING in our political economy is based on privately controlled banks being able to make the public "money" supply out of nothing as debts, while that fraud is being enforced by governments. Meanwhile, pretty well nobody who is socially successful is going to admit and address that is the foundation of the established political economy system, that young people are supposed to be learning to get a job within.
Since there has been a long, long history of civilization being controlled by backing up lies with violence, enabling those lies to become to dominant social stories, almost everyone who is socially successful has learned to become the best available professional liars and immaculate hypocrites, in proportion to their position within the social pyramid systems that were built on that basis of being able to enforce frauds.
The thread to follow through labyrinth of the GRAND PARADOXES that civilization is controlled by entrenched systems of lies backed by violence is that there MUST BE DEATH CONTROL SYSTEMS, & THERE ARE!
It made sense that there had to be some death control systems. It made sense that the most socially successful death control systems were those operating through the maximum possible deceits. Therefore, it makes sense that we live inside of a society where almost everything is fake, EXCEPT the force that backs up those fakes.
Young people are being brainwashed to believe in the biggest bullies' bullshit world view, regarding how human beings and civilization operate, i.e., by them getting productive jobs, when actually the production of destruction controls production. Of course, in a thoroughly paradoxical, but still consistent way, even those whose jobs are to apply the legalized violence to enforce the legalized lies (such as the banksters' frauds), also tend to believe in utter bullshit about their jobs too.
In my view, it IS possible to untangle the paradoxes that civilization is controlled by systems of enforced frauds. However, doing that requires profound series of intellectual scientific revolutions, due to the degree that pretty well everything has become almost totally FAKED. What continues to be "really real" is that the only connection between human laws and natural laws is the ability to back up lies with violence.
Civilization has created cultural systems of artificial selection, which were driven to develop by natural selection pressures, in extremely PARADOXICAL WAYS! The essential problems continue to be now what they always were, that there must be some death control system, while those which were the most deceitful were the most socially successful.
To diminish the degree to which civilization has become pretty well FAKE EVERYTHING, in which the financial enforced frauds are the most important manifestation of that, would require that the necessary death controls were done in ways which were less deceitful. However, there are no practical ways to do that. Rather, there is pretty well nothing but systems of the biggest and best organized gangs of criminals (governments controlled by banksters), surrounded by controlled opposition groups which stay within the same basic bullshit frame of reference, that asserts there should not be any death control systems, or at least none that human beings are consciously aware of operating.
The existing death control systems are NOT FAKES, however, those have become runaway criminal insanities, due to the ways that they have become so totally based upon deceits that they no longer have any rational relationships left to what they are really doing, nor how and why they developed to do those things.
In that context, the news published on Zero Hedge continues to seem more and more like the satires published on The Onion. Stories like the one above become SURREAL, to the point where, at first glance, they appear to be satires. However, they are "real" because of the ways that enforced frauds have developed into runaway social psychoses.
That is how I regarded your comment, bytebank. You are correctly pointing out the degree to which everything else is fake, so why not fake jobs. However, I have attempted to explain how and why that kind of appearance of FAKE EVERYTHING developed during history, and therefore, why the realities regarding the death control systems, no matter how PARADOXICAL those become, are still the thread of analysis to follow through the maze of the social situations where everything is based upon enforced frauds, and therefore, everything appears to be FAKES! Although the laws of man have no other connection to the laws of nature than the ability to back up lies with violence, human laws still DO HAVE THAT REAL CONNECTION!
So.... I'm wondering. Are they using these fake companies to lower their real unemployment numbers?
do the potemkin bankers throw themselves off fake roofs, you know to get ready for the real jump, it seems much higher up without the safety net.
or do they at least teach jumping form and or dificulties, i.e. double twist with a head splatter.
Local lady at the County Fair demonstated the process....
http://abc7.com/news/woman-injured-in-free-drop-attraction-at-san-bernardino-county-fair-dies/754243/
Weird. Making people feel totally great about themselves all the while taking their minds off the fact their entire lives are in the fucking shitter - but only after 5pm. Hmmm
Will the landlords accept fake rent?
Do the guys get a free piece of wet liver to take home?
TungstenBars
This is all just so insane. Fuck, maybe I'm in a padded room right now and I've been imagining the last 15 or so years
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YOU GOT IT - THAT'S WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love it.
To paraphrase the late Jean Baudrillard, we have fake fake jobs exist to prevent us from recognizing the disappearance of fake real jobs (to prevent us from recognizing the disappearance of real jobs?).
Seriously though, this is just a symptom of failure to admit/accept/acknowledge that all economies are repricing labor itself - downward. It's only been happening for about ... 30 years now.
(The only labor that is still bid is that (as ZH has repeated again and again) of industries/institutions which can (a) pay themselves (FIRE), (b) finance themselves (government, NGOs, major corporations), and/or (c) serve the luxury market.)
It's the cause that vexes people. The notion that labor itself can lose its (utility) value is rather unpalatable and therefore ignored.
We're still mining rock, crushing it, selling it and using it to make ready mix cement that the government buys to build elaborate shooting ranges and tank parking lots. We by and resell steel and steel components, and have a division that took that steel to build 450 FEMA rifle towers (yeah, we really did). We take in concrete and get money to dump it, then crush it into powder and sell it as road base. Yep, we get paid to take it and even more to sell it.
There still is real industry and manufacturing going on. You won't find it on Wall Street. It's the local mom and pop's that made desperate sacrifices, along with their employees, back in 2006 that are still in business. Those sacrifices paid off and they became free of debt and extremely lean...not to mention voloptuously hungry.
We're in such good shape that we not only totally bought out a competitor in an area, that we are now leasing an area of land to them that they used to own.
IN spite of the Fed and our War Criminal Government, there are still mom and pop's that still listen to people like me when the shit is about to hit the fan.
We are a lean, clean, locally social, machine, employing 250+, $35m Revenue and $4m profit, with active envolvment, company-wide in local charities. This years audit should be complete in nine days and be morally, enviromentally, legally and ethically, clean as a whistle.
If only our war criminal government could brag the same.
"We're still mining rock, crushing it, selling it and using it to make ready mix cement that the government buys to build elaborate shooting ranges and tank parking lots. We by and resell steel and steel components, and have a division that took that steel to build 450 FEMA rifle towers (yeah, we really did)."
Why the fuck would you admit that on this site?
"We are a lean, clean, locally social, machine, employing 250+, $35m Revenue and $4m profit".
No, you are the .guv's bitch, and from the sound of it you ride on the taxpayers backs.
I guess a thanks is in order? All right, thanks asshole for building the FEMA camp rifle towers, supplying government shooting ranges and government tank parking lots with cement, all while enjoying a profit, someone has got to do it? Right?
"If only our war criminal government could brag the same."
Bwhahahahhahahahhahahahhahahah
The reason it's unpalatable is that most people know they are considered means to an end by their masters, and that when robots are able to do all the work the masters will take great pleasure in exterminating the proletariat.
If I thought the end of work would result in everyone getting a no strings attached national dividend to live on, I'd welcome it. It will actually result in the 99 per cent being shoved into gas chambers by their robot replacements.
The “Potemkin” workers are not getting paid? Why, they need to get unionized! More breaks, less work. Why does a potemkin company have to show a profit anyway? Don't they have a printer? Print up some "potemkin bucks".
Sim City escapes the computer matrix. It's the 2nd level of the 13th floor.
does the fake boss get to bang the fake personal assistant, or is it all just a Potemkin wet dream?
"Candelia"? I guess "PotemCo." was already taken.
aaaaah, that's what they have done to the White House. It's a Potemkin presidency. It's like a Black Truman Show.
Now it all makes sense. In case I don't see you...good afternoon, good evening and good night
There goes the neighbourhood...
It's all fake. I know I'm not the only one who knows that.
"We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us"
Old (new) joke in socialist economy
Gefälschte Arbeit macht frei.
can someone explain me what is she living on ?
welfare ?
if i got the welfare benefits she is getting i would not care about getting a new job or faking a job. I would simply enjoy free time i have got
Fake fiat?
So when the fake economy has a fake depression and everyone loses their fake jobs, will the fake government create fake-"fake" jobs program to keep the people busy?
Turtles all the way down!
lol
Welcome to The Matrix!
only 1% of the german population is working
the other 99% sre living on welfare from collexted tax of the 1%
a recent study prooved: people with money suffer from pain in the back
the reason is the have to lift their heavy sacks filled with gold and fresh ezb-printed money
Fuck it. Why not just plug these people into the Matrix and be done with it? What is the fooking difference?
Y'all keep resisting the fact that a new paradigm is forming whether we like it or not. Refer to Kurt Vonnegut for a primer on labor and its downward spiral, and how it was handled by government and other employers.
"Player Piano", captures a near future society in a dystopic state due to the fact that human beans, 90% of them have nothing to do.
We're going to have to invent other things to do with our allotted 90-120 yrs. on earth, finding other ways to 'work' or we need to lose about 4 billion people to extinction.
at first this seems goofy, but at least these people are doing something for their handout and maybe even learning about business.
It's not goofy. I have a peer in the extended family who managed to make it very large in the stock market on a single stock, 3 homes in various parts of the country, retired from his VP job at a Mutual Fund, likely near a centimillionaire or close, who advises $5 million clients in his after work life.
Talked with him at a family gathering and, having a lot of respect for his intelligence, (his skull can hardly contain his brain) asked him about his thoughts on how his grandchildren, children, and great grandchildren are going to earn a living, and if he gets together with a group of men similarly well off to discuss the future.
He replied that none of his family have to worry about the future, financially. They will be trust fund offspring for the next 100 yrs. When he and the other guys get together all they talk about is how to protect and enhance their wealth thru Private placements, and their health.
He is not concerned about the 99%, being firmly ensconced in the 1%. I thought he might apply his intelligence to the problems of the 99% forgetting he, like other multimillionaires have made certain their progeny are substantially above the upper upper milddle class.
His solution as to how the 99% are going to make out with all the jobs being taken over by computers and robots and a living wage and benefits being harder and harder to come by, even with formerly solid careers in accounting, the sciences Education and business administration disappearing, his answer was: Entrepeneurship.
In other words, inventing their own jobs, likely several times over in a career lifetime. (here I tuned him out since he obviously has not spent much time thinking about this solution, which is impossible for the vast unwashed). Even his own kids have not been able to get careers going and relying on him to get them jobs, businesses, government work, like Judges.
The formidable task ahead for the young, middle aged, and those not born yet is going to result in the United States becoming like all others, a third world country, like Britain, where most people live a meager life on the dole.
We are locked into a permanenrt state of being where the 1% will have it all and the rest of humanity is on their own.
Good insight. There was a time not too long ago when I thought I might be headed to some rarified heights of financial independence and it was amazing how little you can care about the world, politics and so forth. It was then that I realized that 401k's and IRAs were the "poor man's" retirement and that it really did not matter what the governmnt did or did not do since I was on my way to be a viceroy of the universe or so I thought. I did not care about dems or rebubs giving money to both parties. An election outcome would not affect me.
Well, it all did not work out as I planned. So here I am trying to figure out which way the "wind" is blowing and hoping I don't get trampled under foot by events outside my control.
People will invent their own jobs. We have before, and we will again. The job I do didn't exist when I was a teenager.
Is that going to work for everyone? No. But then even though I've had a good education, I certainly wasn't smart enough to invent all of the stuff that had to be in place in order for my job to exist - even though I'm more or less competent to do the job itself. That was a cooperative effort, headed by people who have made out well during the Information Revolution - Gates, Ellison, Jobs, Andreesson, etc. So how is my situation really that different from one of the "vast unwashed?" As far as I can see, the only difference is that I had enough intelligence and education opportunities to be qualified to do a job in the 'new' economy.
I think we need a more encompassing plan to build a global economy that works for everyone, including the "vast unwashed," and there's nothing impossible about doing that. In some sense, every job that doesn't directly contribute to fulfilling the basic requirements of life - clean air, water, and food, secure shelter, energy, clothing, medical care, and education, is from a certain perspective 'fake.' It's an entertainment expense.
In other words, it's optional. It's something we choose to spend time and effort and resources on rather than spending them on making sure that everyone's basic needs are taken care of first. It's not really logical, because it slows the long-term rate of progress by promoting conflict, and it contributes to vast amounts of human misery, but the allure of the future is so strong, it causes the .01% to want to drag it into the present as fast as possible, regardless of expense, as long as they get to enjoy the benefits of getting their Christmas presents from the future early, and essentially for free. They get away with that as long as enough of we-who-could-change-things are content with watching their consumption, dreaming it might be ours too some day, and in the mean-time remain sated with their lifestyle and technology hand-me-downs and the propaganda used to justify the whole shit-show
But the economy shifts its focus because of the mass actions of individuals, not because of policy. So if, as a species, we wake up and decide to start valuing those businesses that work towards providing the basic needs for everyone in the world, and those businesses that are devoted to training several billion minds that no longer have to spend most of their mental energy just figuring out how to survive until the next day - if we figure out a way to 'turn on' all of that idle human brain-power, just watch how quickly the wealth of that new economy surpasses what passes for 'rich' in the world we currently inhabit.
Henry VIII probably thought he was rich too, but by modern standards, in many ways, he wasn't. He had a lot of power, sure. But so what? He didn't have penicillin or Netflix. I wouldn't trade my life experience for his, would you? Our descendants, presuming we're clever enough to stick around long enough to have them, will look back at the 'wealthy' of this era in the much the same way (I hope).
And yes, I realize that not every third world mind is going to suddenly turn into a 'little Einstein' just because they no longer have to worry about food, water, housing, power, security, or medical care and they have high-bandwidth access to the very best educational content we can produce. The vast majority will probably want to be high all day and immersed in virtual worlds. They'll be lining up for The Matrix, once it's offered to them.
Is that really such a bad thing? It would be cheaper than imprisoning them, and a hell of a lot more just than killing them.
In the USA, we have it too -- they are called Innovation Centers/Incubation Centers/Accelerators/Co-working space -- mostly unemployed working on unfunded startups that have snowball chance in hell of making it.
Mass unemployment is a sad phenomenon :(
This shit just gets crazier and crazier. I'm speechless.
This sounds suspisciously like play video games all day till a job happens to come by and grab you by the neck and force you into it. Sheeittttttt.
I really didn't know what Potemkin Sex was, then I got married...
when is the IPO offering coming out? why there could be a whole new exchange in this and a whole new credit system....what? we already have it?
Either fake jobs or just staying at home and receive benefit .
The future might just be more shared jobs and fake jobs .
The employment future doesn't look bright when there are the following changes that will happen in the near future .
1) The three dimensional printers might revolutionize the current production line . Already guns have been produced succeefully and even a house .
2) Robotization of a lot of menial jobs .
There is report of a robot in Japan that can cook 300 recipes and there are robot girls sold in China and Japan for sex purposes .
http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/20090/robot-girlfriends-go-on-sale-...
Wouldn't be surprised if they are required to do this to keep their 'benefits' It's sad either way.
Fake jobs for a fake economy.
What happens if you don't pay your fake taxes?
Ms. de Buyzer should be home opening up her legs to produce children tht is why evolution puted all that hardware inside her crotch
but it seems that in western societies, wemen want to do everything except what they were designed to
For my part, I'll stave off boredom with games of Chess and gardening - YouTube tutorials to play piano; and join the Navy in hopes of another war. If none comes, I'll ride the ships, writing poetry and learning whatever trade they'll ply me to. I"ll Sit in Churches, wishing I could have the Pastors' wife, and waiting for Kingdom come, all the while vacillating between my appalling lack of masturbatory control - and my inability to seduce even one women. Top that off with the conscience thought of many an Evangelist: that most of humanity will spend an eternity in hell-fire, and I may become dejected, to say the least. A woman - foolish enough to settle down, would lift my spirits. She'd have to be content with little, or course, not upset by fits of melancholy and impressed by silence, that comes from the voice of the poor, the cowardly and the comfortable. She'd imagine me grave, and inflate my already exaggerated sense self of worth with her lies.
Though, the ZH community’s likes' will be a happy substitute until then.
God Bless