Keith Hudson wrote:
Interesting article on the long-term unemplopyed in America.
Keith Hudson
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THE NEW PROFILE OF THE LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYED
Louis Uchitelle
[snip]
"There are just not new jobs being created in the things these people did before," said Andrew Stettner, a policy analyst at the National Employment Law Project and co-author of a study of long-term unemployment.
[snip]
Well, that's the difference between (1) both an oikos [a household] and
a polis [a community of peers], and (2) an "economy" [a structure for exploitation of
human as well as natural resources]:
When either a family member or a member of a real community becomes
"useless", he or she is still supported nonetheless because of
the human [blood or collegial] ties among all the co-subjects of
their co-constituted lifeworld.
Not at all. Most pre-agricultural societies neglected, killed or allowed old people to die when they were beyond experiential or physical help to the community. To a lesser extent, this occurs in agricultural societies. The excessive preoccupation with keeping old people alive -- even in a vegetative state -- is a Christian phenomenon due to the old person having a "soul". We have been able to afford this during the fossil fuel boom, but not for a great deal longer. The amount of suffering and neglect in state retirement homes is enormous -- at least in England, and nation-states in the coming decades will certainly not be able to afford to look after their old people -- considering that their own families will not look after them but pack them away in state homes. The rise of euthansia as a matter of political debate in relatively recent years is symptomatic of a growing problem. The modern nation-state will no more look after its poor old people anymore than, for example, really helping Africans.
Keith Hudson
In an "economy", when a resource becomes useless it just
drops off the radar screen.
Probably somewhere in some country at least once in the
coming decade, one useless drop-off who in his or her
earlier years did something for someone whose fortunes
in the economy prospered will be discovered in the
gutter by the prosperous person and "saved" [Androcles and
the lion?]
Not many of them, however, I expect....
\brad mccormick
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