12 May

Most jobs aren’t about producing things. Most jobs are pointless, society produces so much already that there’s very little need for many of us to work. A job is the way those with most of society’s wealth ration it out to the rest of us. They hold the wealth, and you have to ‘work for them’ to get any of it. This is also why conservative politicians talk so much about ‘jobs, jobs, jobs’, it’s not about society needing to go back to producing things, we have way more than we need already. It’s about restoring control over the flow of wealth. They hate cash ‘handouts’, such a revealing word - who is ‘handing out’ the cash? It’s society’s wealth, it doesn’t belong to the wealthy. And they hate welfare, because that also removes some of their control over who gets a share of society’s wealth. Why the cashless welfare card is popular with them, it gives them back more control.