People are no Longer Necessary, or Even Desirable
Don’t Call Yourself a Programmer
Ordinary people are no longer necessary for the business world. It only needs people with a few specialized skills, to help it make more money – everyone else is merely an expense who can be worked to death. It makes little sense to talk of creating jobs in this environment.
This article may seem like a strange choice to illustrate this point. It’s long article about a relatively esoteric field: software. But this is where the rubber is hitting the road now.
With a little imagination you can generalize its findings – mainly that it is you versus the System, with the System holding most of the advantages.
It wants people that fit into it perfectly, and plenty of people are eager to do this – and forget themselves entirely.
Counter to popular belief, a job is not a right, it is a privilege. If you don’t have the skills to barter with, you can’t expect anyone to employ you. You are not going to hire a pulmber to wire your house. Fortunately for most of us, we have skills that make us employable. However our skills determine how much we will be paid. A doctor has the skill to save lives and is paid accordingly. A waitress, on the other hand, isn’t doing anything you can’t do for yourself at home. That makes the skills less saleable.
@Ellen – if your argument is that you only get what you have the skill (power) to take, and that this is good then you have no complaint against the unemployed individual who, realizing he has a skill for shotgun operation, murders you and raids your refrigerator to feed himself. You might take this into consideration before dismissing ‘unskilled’ workers so flippantly.