plays a little food for thought, so that one comes out patterns detrimental to one.
on the question whether it is worthwhile to fight unemployment
This article intends to deal with a thought experiment, which took hundreds of years before its beginning. The thought of a right to laziness is, almost never from the people has been perceived as legitimate, but promised to work through all the pre-modern times and in most cultures no good. Work, Greek: ponos, which is suffering, toil and trouble. Work, in Latin: labor, which is difficult and "the staggering under a heavy Load. "Only in Protestant beginnings of capitalism has herauskristalisiert the current appearance of the work. In the Middle Ages there was a variety of religious holidays, 38 in France and 52 in Bavaria, which with the" liberation from the yoke of the Church reduced to all of 17 were. The exemption in this case was just another way of bondage. Despite the modernization of production facilities and the general improvement of working conditions (unpaid) overtime on a daily, often depends on whether man keep his or her job is.
ashamed Often people who have lost their jobs to their fellow men deceive. They often activity before, by leaving in the morning with her briefcase the house. Bill Clinton said in 1998: "Any work is better than no work." The work is regarded as meaningful, is what man does man. And only paid work is real work. Everything else is pushed into the hobby and leisure activities. Michael Liebler of Radio Z in Germany, writes in response to Chancellor Schroeder's statement that there is no right to laziness: "If I pick a steak in the pan, then the work. But:! Objection A selfish work that just me itself uses. But if I fry steak for 10 people, then this is probably the work that Schroeder finds good? No, steak fry is in the realm of Arts and Leisure may enjoy it, even if he toils decent. The unemployed, the conventional wisdom, should kindly suffer from their excessive leisure "
But the unemployed can be helped -. On one or another kind of modern forced labor for starvation wages is to make those (r) the unemployed, which is (r ) does not coincide with the first-best "dirty job" satisfactory. A few years came after the book "The Global Trap" on the market now claim many of the described mass unemployment of 80% would never come. At present, even with all the violence on the part of governments tries, the fetish maintain full employment, where they are supported in this effort by economists, such as the claim that the existence of low wages was necessary, given that unemployment was the result of high wages, especially among unskilled workers. The former New Zealand Finance Minister Ruth Richardson called collective agreements or laws with Mindeslohnelementen and an expanded welfare state as a "conspiracy against the unemployed". The Würzburg economist Bert says that today "appears to have only the choice between two evils: unemployment and unequal distribution of income."
"Arbeit macht frei "(*)?
It is to recognize that a MacJob not a good (re) is entering the labor market, but a Abschlittern in a kind of modern slavery. In-German entrepreneurs is flexibility terminability simple and trouble finding labor. With so-called personnel management - companies, this is already realized. Cheap labor without a contract and without political power and organizing are just waiting on the roadside and picked up again to be sold - as required. And the economists? Speeches by StandortqualitätÉ and mean described above, the Commerce speaks here of a "pool of skilled professionals."
The statistical Government's aim of full employment, it is not the issue after the economic sense or even the quality of work. Even a "MacJob" as a bag tractor may therefore be considered as socially valuable work. Work is now far from being free, but sometimes even poor. The power company has to pay is still not ready for necessary work. men for the work of housewives and give mothers and fathers do not pay it. Instead, it is the social rejection of such work straight to the paradoxical privilege of overloaded parents, at least to find another part-time work. That work is far from work, including the treatment demonstrated a non-profit Activities. There is no rating system that such work could still be as attractive as it would have a more and more entsolidarisierte society so urgently needed also to define an output side of quotations.
Here's to the laziness
Despite the finding that most of the custom work demeaning, uncreative and even harmful to the health, trade unions are screaming for more jobs - not surprising, is a human in this system, which is based on the Sale of Goods is based only worth something if he or she has the opportunity to purchase something. And this requires the possession of money which in turn and so on. As early as 1848 La Fargue wrote in his sarcastic manifesto "Towards a right to laziness": "A strange addiction dominates the working class of all countries where there is the capitalist civilization, a drug that the ruling in modern society, individual and mass misery to follow added. It is the love of work, the frantic, until all individuals and their offspring going work addiction. And yet, the bourgeois economists and philosophers, one and all nauseating praise to the God of progress, the eldest son of the work, sung. "
also get the economists, as the market economy itself, from their fat, "Works, works, proletarians, and increases the national wealth so that your personal misery. Works to become even poorer, have more reason to work and to be miserable. This is the inexorable law of capitalist production. [É] The fact that the workers pay the deceptive cries of the economists believe, and body and soul to the demon prescribe work, they themselves to those industrial crises, where the overproduction of the social organism placed in abnormal contractions.
Yet La Fargue sees the problem not with the capitalist class but rather in the system. In his opinion, is the working class to the motto "Work and abstinence . Fallen and so would lead the capitalist class to enforced idleness and luxury, for inefficiency and over-consumption convicted and if the transfer for the laborer abrackert his body and shattered his nerves, it is no less for the Bourgeois fertile in suffering: he has to his former modest needs doing to coercion, the him unlearn the past two centuries has become habitual industriousness, and is an unbridled luxury, stuffing with truffles, and syphilitic excesses arise. He must also avoid a huge mass of people of productive work, in order to get blackheads . As examples of the police are called blackheads called, which take over the work to protect the accumulated luxury.
The problem of the global economy, which was even then its beginning is so marked: "basically, the problem is to find affluent consumers, the problem of finding these increases with dwindling wages of the workers and there. European workers, shivering with cold and hunger, refuse the substances they weave to wear, even the grain that they build to consume itself, so to see the poor forced manufacturers annually hundreds of millions and billions in value in all four corners of the world to export to nations who do not know what to do with it. "As an example of what he meant La Fargue here could serve the era of colonization, in which the colonized countries were not only exploited but also were forced to buy the goods produced in Europe again. This pressure was not one, as is usual these days, more subtle but real violent. Thus, the Indian plastics industry literally destroyed in order to get a market for the UK to produce manufactured cloth.
Furthermore, the technical with the progress achieved to improve its opinion after not occurred, not least because of the insistence on human labor, "O you idiots! Because you too much work, the industrial technology is becoming slow. To force the capitalists to perfect their machine of wood and iron, one must increase the wages of the machines of flesh and bone and reduce the working hours of it. "What kind of machines we would have today if this request had been achieved at that time? This would conflict with the objective of an environmental tax reform changes - should be here, people are considering whether a Entsteuerung work, and hence more use of human labor is ever appropriate -. and whether an environmental reform is not without more work to get along La Fargue said at the time, a radical (re) distribution of social wealth would make it possible to shorten the ban on daily working hours under 3 hours. More modern versions are the French initiatives to reduce working for the same pay.
But even basic security models could enable us to break the social position on laziness. What is interesting about these demands is the thought of how this time would be used by the individual. Man Imagine me, since then there would be these 3 - hour day. Getting used to the current consumption and leisure industry can play us with the idea that the rest of the time would be wasted easily. Possibly, but when that time would have been used since then as many people as artists, inventors and would eventually become too political, would have searched for improvements, ideas and fantasies had time to improve this world to think and perform. Today, however, lull people with a mash of work and consumption, which has a reciprocal effect, even one, occurs during the humanistic progress to a halt, backward running and growing inequality. Finally, a quote from the mastermind La Fargue: "O Laziness, mother of the arts and the noble virtues, be thou the balm for the pain of humanity!"
Stefan Künz
From: suspect No.4, Journal of the Green Alternative Youth Vienna
(*) was the slogan of the Reich Leader SS Heinrich Himmler. Inscription, among others, the inputs of the concentration camp Auschwitz, Dachau and Sachsenhausen.
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