this cone head's
Rx
for europe's gathering
wage class-tas-trophe
is a brutal
trap filled
fantasy binge

after all the nice bits
about job outflow and inflow rates
he gives us these wonder weapons

tenure tracks instead of
the two tiered system
of casual and secured employment ?

decentralization of wage setting
instead of national multi sector wage concertaion?

its a dismal path
he wants to guide les geefs along

one that will doubtless prove to be
strewn with broken board room promises

promises of reciprocity
as in

"give us the flexibility
and
we'll increase your productivity
and .....your wages "

haven't the jobbled vanguard
of this good earth...
the wagery of north america
already traversed these very same
highways to the stars over the past 30 years ????

simple sum up:

along the way
the social win win link gets busted

just as concertation led
to reduced union powerby
swamping the militant minority
by milding out thru melding in
the wage bargaining system
so
this apparently opposite move
leading back from concertation
to localized atomization
baragaining
is a logical
utterly coherent follow up step
in a process
toward ever higher corporate returns

both directions
were ultimately politically certified
because
they had profit plus potential outcomes
for the MNC 's

hey !
why assume any other intended outcome
when the faustian insatiability
of the corporate profit max quest
trumps all else

...
"the means of production are just too efficient, there aren't enough decent jobs to go around"

mark II
after writing up so much sense
to end with such utter nonsense

why baby why ???

as time passes
the growth in productivity
in one household product sector
leads on to increased final demand
for the next higher wish sector
in an unending
spiral up
of wants and desires

the socialization of consumption is barely under way
we still can eat out
the the second half of our meals
farm out the rest of our routine
care giving

btw at first
these may prove quite hard to mechanize

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"in case you were wondering
my ambition is to be a reality tv star"

talk about
the growing relative scarcity
of positional jobs
as society gets bigger and more consolidated
is not new at all now is it ...

and
hardly the real issue either

a plentiful supply
of decent paying
decent houring
low skill requiring wage jobs
is not limited by
technical progress
its created by
technical progress