The Culture War and the Jobs Crisis
This is a long article and far too intelligent for the average reader. But it kept my interest and I read it all – and as they say: nothing succeeds like success.
It is a summary of the author’s book The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics. It makes liberals (like me) hopeful when he speaks of the Culture War – a feeling we have almost forgotten. But then pours on the cold water when he talks about the Jobs Crisis. He ends this way:
Does the new and enlarged Democratic coalition have the capacity to re-engineer capitalism to produce sustained economic growth while working toward social justice?
This is a lot to ask of our political system – or any political system. It’s a lot to ask of the human race – which has never been able to get its act together properly.
I, for one, am suspicious of any talk of re-engineering capitalism – whose present motives are baffling – and does not seem to be interested in its own survival.
The outlook for jobs is grim. If I were younger (55 instead of 75) I would become a programmer again. But I would have the same old problem – I would ask “What’s in this for me (as a person)?” And the answer would be the same – Nothing! The world (including the Computer world) is not set up for people.
Once you find the good feeling place of your choices and can stay there, you start
to activate the Law of Attraction. Important more challenging is always that we have been reduced to improve.
What you bring to the party are your documented skills that are transferable and can be applied in this prospective job to make this company successful.