The “Job Market” Exists to Hurt Us
The necessary subtext and background noise to outline in any conversation of hiring workers and searching for employment, and even the concept of employment itself, is the fundamental nature of the capitalist context of employment. First, however, we bring you a refresher.
Capitalism is the political and economic system (read: all economics being inherently political) which organizes itself for gains of capital, or finance, and where production in all its forms tangible and intangible is controlled by two distinct classes, known sometimes as the capitalist class and the political class. These classes, roughly speaking, constitute corporations and government respectively in such a system, with some varying degrees of overlap dependent upon the minutia of which capitalist system we consider. In other words, what constitutes capitalism is the economic and political control of capitalists and politicians searching for financial gains (i.e. their own).
Yet the quest for profit under capitalism is dependent upon other components to benefit such persons of interest. If one controls political production (i.e. the creation, interpretation and enforcement of laws and rules) then one requires a population from whom these laws and rules must be inspired. Similarly, if one controls economic production, one requires a population from whom the labor of production must be…
