Why is There Unemployment ?

Why do companies not employ more people? Why doesn't the government get everyone jobs?

Unemployment is good for big busine ss, and even small business. Neither you nor they can deny it. The higher the rate of unemployment the more people there are looking for work, the more people there are looking for work then the more likely they are to put up with poor working conditions and poor pay, they more willing they are to put up with poor conditions and poor pay the easier it is for big businesses to grow as they do not need to worry as much about worker strikes and unions.

This exploitation of the workers, because they are to afraid to stand up for there rights, allows businesses to pocket the money they should really be paying out and use it to further there own goals.

Secondly if this is true why not ar e companies employing more and more people? The answer is simple. If you were a company like McDonalds why would you bother to employ more young people (legal slave labour) when you could simply buy a machine such as a Fry-Basketing Machine (it puts the chips in the baskets so they can then be cooked). The machine although it may cost more money cannot refuse to work, does not call in sick, is not late, does not need breaks, can work all day and all night, and is generally reliable. Finally once you have paid for the machine you no longer need to pay it (other than electricity etc).

This is a huge saving, and companie s such as car manufacturers have done it to their assembly lines effectively cutting their number of employees by more than half. This means that this money can be used to further buy more machinery to replace more workers until only the barest bones are left in place. The companies are aiming for the highest output for the cheapest cost and not even governments can legislate that a certain number of employees mjust be employes, rather they must beg the companies to do it and offer them tax incentives, money which is later taken from the pocket of the tax payers and workers.

The answer is simple, the majority of us live in democratic states, we elcect the government who allow the companies to do this to us, and yet do we complain? No we dont we have been fooled into believing this sytem is good.

Capitalism replaced the previous sy stem of social heirarchy, now rather than simply being forced into a position on the social ladder, we have been given the delusion of choice.

The beutiful trick of capitalism, t here is no social heirarchy we can all take our rightful place on the social ladder according to how much wealth we possess. However we have all been fooled as yes it is correct anyone can end up a Bill Gates, however how many of us do? Nearly all people are born into a socio-economic group and we can never escape it, you will never accumulate the wealth necessary to escape it. That has already been seen to, you can work all your life and still you will not create enough money to escape the cycle unless you are extremely lucky or born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Otherwise you have to work all your life never being paid what your work is worth because under capitalism your bosses are trying to climb the social ladder, however they have a benefit they own a business and have many more desperate people below them than above them.

The greatest trick ever played upon western man has been to fool him into believing that communism is bad, that socialism is bad (Please note that here i do not refer to any of the fake socialist or communist governments that have existed or do exist in the world, rather i mean communism and socialism as people such as Marx, Engles, or Lenin envisaged it). It is true that communism and socialism are the enemies of capitalism. Like God is the enemy of the devil.

Look at your history and the legend s that exist in our societies, they show the truth it is foolsh to think that things have changed simply because we have been told they have. Legends tlak of a time when all were equal, equality between the races and between the sexes. some historians and much of society say they are simply myths but does it matter if they are, even if all they are is nothing more than stories does it not mean that we should not aim for such a society.

Jesus would almost certainly have b een a socialist if he was here in our world today, did he not condemn the money changers (ie basically the banks) and tell everyone that they were to love one another as equals.

yet somehow the Vatican have manage d to lose this message (Please note that the Vatican was established as a seperate country in World War Two by the Italian Fascists, who stood against all that the Bible proclaims)

I did not mean this rant about our disgusting polluted corrupt society to turn into a political statement or a religious statement. All I would like is for anyone who bothers to read this to think about our society and all that we take for granted. DO NOT simply dismiss this or even believe it rather question what you are told, what you think, look for the primary sources behind everythign and interpret it for yourself.

Response to the above

[I had intended this simply to be a response to the rant 'Why is there unemployment?' In the event, it has evolved into a rant of its own.]

How surprising it is to find that there are so many laughable little commies still around!
The lessons of the failed socialist experiments of the 20th century are simple:

Socialism/communism is the philosophy of paternalism. The state (or collective or whatever you want to call it) looks after individuals according to their needs, while the individuals work for the greater good of all. This may be appealing for the sad and childlike who cannot cope with adulthood now they have lost the supervision of their parents, but for most people it is a fatally flawed system. I have no interest in being told by anyone what it is that I need, and am positively enraged by the idea of working for the greater good of all - I couldn't give a rat's arse about everyone else.

As evidence that my attitude is prevalent I offer the pathetic state of affairs in Eastern Europe before the fall of the wall. I had the misfortune to visit East Germany and Poland on a number of occasions, and found that, as expected, society was in chaos.

Because there was no reward for labour and industry, no-one did any real work. Workers were paid regardless of their effort or the quality of their product, so they spent their days making a criminally low quantity of shoes (or whatever) that were virtually un-wearable. Worse, because production and distribution were controlled centrally, the shoes were ugly to the point of inducing vomiting. Of course, when it came to giving back to the workers the fruits of their labours, the lack of any market mechanism meant that supply never even approximated demand. Ugly East German shoes could be had by the gross, for example (though only in a size 10), but nowhere behind the iron curtain could a pair of trousers be purchased. This is the inevitable consequence of letting the government (or state, or collective, or hippie commune) make decisions that should be left to individuals.

The worst of it, though, is that communism spells the death of fun. I could recount the misery I saw in communist countries but I won't. Just read the comments posted on this site by the commies - you'll see what I mean. On the healthy side of the equation, there was a thriving black market in every communist country I visited: capitalism can be temporarily suppressed, but you can't kill it. It works too well.

I like my freedom; capitalism if the philosophy of freedom, therefore I am a capitalist. I feel sorry for all you sad little pinkos.

Finally, I appluad the fact that the lunatics who have contributed to this discussion to date at least have the courage to admit that their allegiance lies with Marx (though it is often unclear whether they mean Karl or Groucho): as a citizen of a country with a newly elected socialist government I daily hear its decisions justified with the rhetoric of 'building a fairer society', or 'redistributing weath equitably'. Though it hardly bears noting, like all communists and socialists their ultimate aim is not to help anyone, but rather to legislate to the point where every possible act is either compulsory or forbidden.

Why is there unemployment spreading the world?

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