The Welfare-Industrial Complex – Welcome to America!

12 Apr The Welfare-Industrial Complex – Welcome to America!

 

–https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-welfare-industrial-complex-is-booming-3a7ad15c

 

On his channel, ThisIsJohnWilliams predicted an American economy based primarily on entitlements:

Why would we need a “welfare-industrial complex” anyway?

According to a new report from the federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics this week, the US economy added 303,000 jobs for the month of March while the unemployment rate fell slightly to 3.8%. In what has become a familiar pantomime, reporters from the legacy media were sure to declare this a “blowout jobs report” while Richmond Fed president Tom Barkin described the report as “quite strong.”

This report showed, however, that the jobs economy continues to follow a pattern that began in December of last year: namely, full-time jobs are disappearing and the “job growth” reported so enthusiastically by the media is virtually all part-time jobs. Moreover, nearly a quarter of new payroll jobs are government jobs. If we look more closely at this report, what we really find is that the total number of employed persons has fallen by nearly 400,000 jobs in four months and that 1.8 million full-time jobs have disappeared over the same period.

–https://mises.org/mises-wire/march-report-recession-full-time-jobs-here

Shh. You’re not supposed to pay attention to that! Part-time jobs that don’t pay a living wage and government jobs? No, you’re supposed to think the private sector is churnin’ and burnin’ with full-time roles and if you’re unemployed, well, it’s your own damn fault.

The WSJ predicts the growth of government, health care, and social assistance jobs and then, kaboom, looky-looky at the jobs report:

Growth came from many of the usual sectors that have powered gains in recent months. Health care led with 72,000, followed by government (71,000), leisure and hospitality (49,000), and construction (39,000). Retail trade contributed 18,000 while the “other services” category added 16,000.

–https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/05/job-growth-totaled-303000-in-march-better-than-expected-and-unemployment-was-3point8percent.html

In February of 2023 when I was interviewed by the London Daily Post, I warned of an uptick in part-time jobs:

Do you believe unemployment is on the horizon, both for the US and the UK?

Unfortunately, I do. I know that’s not what people want to hear, but I think it’s an inevitability at this point. In the States, we were told by the mainstream media that mass layoffs were not coming. Then when they did, we were told it would only be Big Tech / Silicon Valley. Now that it’s become obvious that Big Tech is not the only sector suffering, we’re told that somehow, we still have a worker’s market and the unemployment rate has remained low. It’s nuts! I’ve been warning people since last year to prepare for the pendulum to swing away from the employee back to the employer, and I hope they listened. In the UK, you’ve seen a push towards hiring part-time employees, which can absolutely leave a significant gap in pay for workers. In America, most of the open roles propping up the job market are connected to fast food, leisure, hospitality, and so on, and a lot of them are part-time positions. So I think for some, the prospect of working two or three part-time jobs to make ends meet is very real. The bottom line is that companies exist to make money and if trimming staff and/or reducing hours is the way they choose to stay profitable, that’s what we’ll see.

–https://londondailypost.co.uk/stagflation-the-labour-market-and-you/

I’ve also warned about 15 minute cities, as well as what I refer to as 15 second prisons, i.e., a resimercial building where people can live and work all in the same space. Just ride the elevator up and down and never leave. 😵‍💫 If John’s thesis is correct, it would look something like this: Parents work from home or are in the same building where they can be a simple elevator ride away. ➡️ Kids learn from home through AI. ➡️ Teachers are replaced with said AI because AI is less expensive and can also be programmed to teach whatever is desired with no pushback.

Is this the way of the future? If so, how does this impact the coming generations? Kids shut up in a room learning from AI bots rather than hanging out with friends and having a typical childhood experience? Being able to discuss and debate and learn in real-time from, gasp, other humans? What kinds of skills would these kids learn? And then what happens to them when they get out to the job market? Or is that the point, as John suggests, with his reference to UBI – you simply become a drooling useless eater like something from Idiocracy?

–https://consaracytheories.com/f/are-schools-disappearing

And that’s why you “need” a welfare-industrial complex. You structure foreign policy around forever wars and domestic policy around relentless surveillance. You provide an “education” of nothingness and put everyone on UBI. Sit in a coffin apartment, play on VR, eat a cricket burger, and shut up. You tell people it’s all about social services, social assistance, social welfare because those terms sound benevolent but then . . .