Putting People, And Society, To work, Prosperously

THE MORE PEOPLE WHO HAVE JOBS, the fewer the number of unemployed, the healthier the economy. The better paid the lowest paid are, the larger the consumer base is, and more people engaged in spending and consuming, and the larger, and healthier the economy. Expand the consumer base through high employment and well paid employment workers, and you expand the consumer base, you increase demand, and supply follows thereafter. this can be called "demand side trickle up economics", or 'economics which works", in sharp contrast to supply side trickle down Reaganomics, which has been proven to be a sham, merely an excuse to transfer wealth from the poor to the rich, through tax policy. Indeed it dies increase wealth, but only among the top one percent, and on one else. As proof, consider that since Reagan, supply side economics has been used, and that during this time, this time, the past thirty five years, the richer have gotten richer, and the poor have gotten poorer, along with the shrinking middle class. Now, as usual, the republican conservatives in congress want to cut taxes on the wealthy, and raise them on everybody else to compensate, another attempt at supply side economics, pure sham, pure evil. The wealthy control this country, and they control our political leaders through bribery, in the form of campaign contributions. Of course the wealthy corporate interests want supply side economics. They assume they can stimulate demand later, through advertising, and consumer debt, while getting their tax cut money now. Anyone who is hired for a job in hired through sheer necessity. Taxing the wealthy does not cause job loss; businesses need workers. Raising minimum wage, and working class wages in general does not cause job loss; the workers are needed, through necessity, at any wage. Raising wages turns subsistence workers into middle consumers, expanding the economy, increasing spending, growing businesses, generating more prosperity for all. In America, it is simply too damned hard to get a job. too many hoops to jump through, too many drug screenings, references, resumes, too much age, gender, and racial discrimination. In almost every sector of the economy turnover is high, job satisfaction and job security are low, and people generally stay at the same job for a few years at most, changing careers more often than the president prevaricates, astonishingly. A healthy infusion of workplace democracy, worker ownership, shareholder workers, stakeholder workers, revenue sharing, and decent health care and pension benefits would stabilize the work force, the economy, producing greater economic equality, which was the original intention of capitalism, in theory, and hence, increase prosperity for all. Our current of slave-wage labor generates as much demoralization among workers as slavery itself. During the late nineteenth century in America, when the industrial revolution was raising up factories with specialization of labor, the hourly wage system was seen by most as "slave labor". Since then,, society has been trained to accept it as normal. It isn't. Adam smith, the intellectual father of capitalism, spoke about extreme labor specialization turning humans into mindless machines, which it does. There will come a time, if civilization evolves into true civilization, when most of our current attitudes and practices regarding to labor and economics are considered primitive and barbaric. may that time arrive soon.