Employers Have Won. Now What?

Can’t find a meaningful job even though you’ve been looking for months, applied to hundreds of openings, read in the media about the fantastic economy? You are not alone. There are tens of thousands of people like you. I’ve come to conclude this is by design.

Put another way, after there was a tiny positive bump for labor in 2020–2021, rich corporate plutocrats who own most the politicians through campaign donations, Super PACs, lobbying firms, etc. have done everything they can in the last few years to absolutely crush labor, and they have just about completely succeeded. You could create a huge list of names. The big ones you are thinking. But behind the scenes a bit more are people like Jerome Powell, Janet Yellen, Philip Swagel, Jared Bernstein, Heather Boushey and Kirabo Jackson, and the vast majority of “”. Also politicians in both political parties. Even those who don’t primarily agree with the direction things have gone, and are headed, are passive to alter things.

Bordering on collusion, the effort has been to keep interest rates high, corporate profits and shareholder profits as the primary economic focus, and companies to collectively keep almost every corporation, every company, business, perpetually understaffed. With this being the new normal. Smoke screens have been thrown up to confuse you, about all the “jobs created”, which if you…