This the shift ‘the economy’ introduced to societies. To strip away their collective focus, and re-home it in…

This the shift ‘the economy’ introduced to societies. To strip away their collective focus, and re-home it in millions of disparate ‘jobs’. Making the public (collective) employees (individual). Employers or ‘business’ then run the entire society. /1 https://t.co/VLqU9NmhWu

This is the real reason we don’t fight climate change or Covid. It’s nobody’s job to do it. Our jobs are about making coffees and stacking shelves. Also why public health action was quickly shut down against Covid, it disrupted the job-economy. /2

There is no ‘public’ in a job-economy. Just a market of individuals. The only power is ‘business’, the employers of jobs. Societies’ entire collective energy and focus is stolen from all collective problems and projects and redirected to ‘jobs, jobs, jobs’. /3

When conservatives use slogans like that, some think they’re preaching a boon for societies. Employment for all! It’s actually a social-political rallying cry, a fundamental shift of social authority to business. There’s no necessary reason society’s labour and resources…/4

…need to be harnessed to what employers want to do. To stacking shelves and making coffees. Those same resources and energies could be used to restore degraded land, and stop pandemics. But there’s no ‘job’ in that. The economy is a trick, a hijacking of our societies. /end