lol, I hate that the world was designed around the idea that we would constantly move, constantly switch jobs. I just want to grill :grillman:
For professional class people it’s probably more rational to move jobs every two years or so in your early career for wage increases, which more than likely means moving. Basically they assumed everyone works a similar career to them, and everyone cares about social ties as little as they do.
Even those people began moving less and less as the jobs clustered.
If white collar upper middle class tech jobs can stay remote - there is a chance a good number of tech people may move “back home”.
Or the push for remote work may cause even more jobs to outsource for cheaper.
Neoliberal ideology. It excuses the shit conditions, pay, benefits, non-unionization of service industry or gig jobs as a temporary ill as the entrepreneur-worker-consumer moves up the ladder. If you bring this up explicitly to people immersed in the ideological soup, they literally retreat to "those jobs are supposed to be temporary/transitional).
This has indirect ideological roots in this country in particular with the free labor ideology of the original Republican Party. These guys believed capitalism and free land grants in the West would produce the Jeffersonian utopia of the virtuous Republic of yeoman farmers. They conceived of wage labor as degrading personal virtue but a temporary evil as the free laborer built up his wealth to buy land or become a skilled craftsman. This is of course a utopian, reversed conception of how capitalism actually functions structurally, where capital in fact drives the artisan and smallholder from the field and proletarianizes them over time.
Neoliberal ideology works from a very similar utopian standpoint. The neoliberal Homo economicus is the peak postmodern human. They are supposed to seamlessly shift identities from worker to consumer to commodity to entrepreneur to manager based on the whims of the marketplace, to move fluidly up the ladder by building up their “marketable skills” until they can “be their own boss” and achieve autonomy through investments on the stock market and shrewd sale of their labor-power. Its in practice a restoration of Victorian-era, pre-Fordist labor conditions where employment was extremely unstable and migratory due to being closely dependent on constantly-shifting prices of commodities and raw materials.
America is still in the midst of a housing crisis, and it’s not just because of record-high housing prices. It also has a lot do with a lack of millennials on the move.
Because moving costs money you fucking dildos. And blue collar jobs no longer pay living wages, which means you can’t rely on gainful employment in a new area unless you already have a job lined up.
Our economy depends on a bunch of people acting like they’re on a reality house-flipping show. If we don’t flip this house, several thousand people in Des Moines will lose their pension.
In the future it’ll all be speculation. The wealthy will fixate on arbitrary commodities and society will react by trying to build everything around that. But it’s fleeting so there’s a constant shuffling of labor and resources so that there is no rest. If you and everyone you know don’t buy enough plastic palm trees and the president doesn’t tweet a hamburger + dice to offset it, then an entire sector of the economy shuts down overnight.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/topic/housing-industry :astronaut-1:
“Oh no the people we pay too little are staying at places that have rents they can afford as a means of survival. How can we make it seem like their fault?”
Liberal economics is a modern version of augury and has the same empirical value as reading a rabbits liver. Change my mind.
