Conrad Black, The Financial Times, August 29, 2012.
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| Chinese sweatshop: Where the jobs went. Source |
Whether the US has really outsourced as many as 50 million jobs, I
cannot confirm. But certainly the West as a whole must have lost at
least that many jobs to outsourcing and offshoring since the
1994 Gatt agreement
that opened the West to competition from four billion of the Rest
willing to work for pennies an hour. In Spain and Greece officially
recognized unemployment exceeds 25%, youth unemployment is over 50%,
while in the US, black youth unemployment exceeds 90%. Overall, US unemployment, according to the old
U6 measure is still well into double digits
and the number of those in the US and Europe who have dropped out of
the workforce because of the futility of continuing the search for work
runs into the many tens of millions.
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| US U6 Unemployment: 14.6%, October 2012. Source |
The idea that just a bit of Keynsian deficit spending is all that's
needed to bring the jobs home again is fantastic nonsense that could
only be entertained by a
Nobel-Prize-winning tenured economics professor
with a guaranteed income for life. The only way that money printing and
deficit spending could return jobs from the Rest to the West is if it
were to drive the US$ and the Euro down against the Renmimbi and the
Rupee by 90 %, while wages remained constant and the cost of living
soared.
But even that would not solve the problem of mass Western unemployment.
Faced by rising wages at its Chinese slave plantations Foxconn, the
manufacturer of the iPhone and many other hot electronic items, proposes
to
replace workers by the million with robots. What we will have then is a world in which most labor is not worth its hire. Even a starvation wage will be too much.
This was foreseen many decades ago by the geniuses who brought about the cyber revolution. Thus, in 1960,
Norbert Wiener, a child prodigy from Columbia, Missouri, and the inventor of cybernetics wrote:
Robotics and the paradox of slavery
A slave is expected to have two qualities: intelligence, and
subservience. These two qualities are by no means perfectly compatible.
The more intelligent the slave is, the more he will insist on his own
way of doing things in opposition to the way of doing things imposed on
him by his owner. To this extent he will cease to be a slave. Similarly
the machine with a higher-order programming will do things that we many
not have foreseen in detail. The result is that in the employment of
such a machine we are bound to find sooner or later that the purpose of
the machine does not conform to the detailed mode of action which we
have chosen for it. ...
With a machine of this sort ... where we do not fully understand we
shall be under pressure to confirm and to a certain extent the machine
rather than ourselves will be the lord of such performance. This imposes
upon us new obligations and new responsibilities. The machine will
still be literal-minded on the highest level, and will do what we have
told it to do rather than what we want it do and what we imagine we have
told it to do. Here we dig into the moral problems which earlier
generations have faced on the level of magic. WW. Jacob's story The Monkey's Paw, Goethe's poem The Magician's Apprentice,
and the Arabian Nights legend of the fisherman and the genie call this
matter to our attention. The Monkey's Paw gets its owner a small fortune
at the cost of the mangling of his son in the machinery of the factory
in which he works. The Magician's Apprentice has learned the words by
which the broomstick was made to fetch water but has not yet learned the
words to stop it. The genie in the bottle, once it has been released by
the fisherman, has a will of its own which is bent on his destruction.
These tales of imagination cease to be tales of imagination once we have
actually made working agencies which go beyond the complete
comprehension of those who have constructed them. There is nothing which
will automatically make the automatic factory work for human good,
unless we have determined this human good in advance and have so
constructed the factory as to contribute to it. If our sole orders to
the factory are for an increase in production, without regard to the
possible aspects of this new and vast productivity and without regard to
the problems of unemployment and the redistribution of human labor,
there is no self-working principle of laissez-faire which will
make those orders redound to our benefit and even prevent them from
contributing to our own destruction. The responsibilities of automation
are new, profound and difficult
But the capitalists, the Jobs's, the Gates's the Goldman Sachs's and all
the other people who fund US Presidential elections and profit from
globalization and the robotic revolution have no concern for those
mangled in the machinery. If there is no self-working machinery of
laissez-faire
that insures that maximization of profits for the owners of capital
redounds to the benefit of the people as a whole, who among the owners
of capital cares? The attitude is clear: if labor is needed, outsource
to the Third World or bring to the West workers from the Third World who
are young, fertile, ambitious, energetic, and ready if necessary to
work in the underground economy at less than minimum wage.
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| Politically correct Britain. Source |
The Western nations are headed for unavoidable extinction. Betrayed by
an elite without a sense of national belonging or loyalty, the fertility
of the nations of Western Europe and their New World offshoots has
collapsed. Oh, sure, the Western nations will continue in name. But they
will be populated by a different people, the indigenous inhabitants of
Western Europe and the European population of the Americas are declining
and increasing despised remnants, betrayed by leaders increasingly
alienated from, and
contemptuous of, their native population.
Today's leadership consists in the promotion of a perversion of
liberalism, together with criminalization of the expression of
traditional morality, loyalty, responsibility and religious belief.
Trouble from the plebs? Just give 'em more rights, women's rights, gay
rights, animal rights, the right not to work and other rights they want
just as long as they remain distracted and continue the process of self
destruction. As
Konrad Lorenz remarked:
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined
the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
Or as the T.S. Eliot put it:
If you give people what they want, you begin by underestimating them and end by corrupting them.
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| Britain's migrant baby boom Source |
And a system of universal corruption is not a civilization but the end
of civilization, and when a civilization ends, the people go with it.
The US birthrate is
well below the replacement rate—
-- even lower than during the Great Depression. In Texas, white births
in the minority. Meantime, in England Pakistani, Bangladeshi and
Nigerian mothers are doing well, each producing
twice as many children as native British women.
Over 25% of British births are now to foreign born mothers,
and many more to foreign born fathers and the sons and daughters of
foreign-born parents. Within a generation, the British will be a rapidly
shrinking minority in their own homeland.
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