Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Scapegoating the unemployed for being at the mercy of a global phenomenon

Click here to access article by Pete Dolack from Systemic Disorder.

Dolack provides data on unemployment from various areas of the world, and arrives at this conclusion:
What we have here is something much bigger than any individual or single country. Market forces are at work, which undergirds the “race to the bottom” capitalism has foisted on the world. It is demand that creates jobs and if wages are declining and more are unemployed, demand will naturally decline, leaving less incentive to hire. Eventually, corporate profit margins will be squeezed, with the result that production is moved to locations with ever lower wage, safety and environmental standards.