Clandestine Reality

A lot of people have a sentiment not just of stagnation, but that things are actually going downhill, getting worse over time. Despite technology having improved, it now takes 30 years to afford a house.  In a digital age where it’s easier to share information than ever, education comes with gigantic student debts and leads to unpaid internships and an unstable job market.  The social media that was supposed to connect people has left everyone more lonely and disconnected than ever.  Healthcare costs are through the roof, and at the same time most people’s health is in a miserable state.  Obesity, being able to afford a caffeine addiction, cheap telescreens to spy on our every movement while trying to turn us into phone zombies, and the mountains of microplastics that are accumulating as a result of massive amounts of cheap consumerist crap, are declared to be the signs that life is awesome, and that everything is going great.  We are constantly told that the ec...

Unemployment is a direct result of the profit motive in a capitalist economy. When does unemployment happen? What does it actually mean for unemployment to exist? Unemployment does not mean that there is nothing to do! For example, there can be homelessness, there can be sick people, there can be starvation, at the same time as there is unemployment. The streets can be dirty, with lots of trash laying around, the infrastructure can be crumbling or inexistent, etc. One would think that if that as long as those issues exist, there is work to do, and therefore there should not be any unemployment. But if a poor person is starving, or homeless, or whatever, this does not lead to employment opportunities, because in a capitalist system,  the economy is run by private owners, for the profits of the private owners. The poor person has nothing. They are not an owner. So their needs do not lead to employment opportunities.  In a capitalist system, it’s almost like those people don’t ev...