What does full employment mean, anyway?

 What does full employment mean?

A job for anyone who wants to work. Work should be useful but most of all work should be respected and a working person should be able to see his/ her place in the society and vice versa.

Okay there are a couple of things wrong with that, right.

One, many people who want to work can be taken advantage of because a job is a necessity, it’s how we take care of ourselves, contribute to our families and provide for our community through taxes so its importance can be used by employers for exploitation, low wages, abuse, etc.

Second, our economy and employment is determined by those in control of our economy- local, state, federal governments, corporate elites and others who decide not only what services should be provided but how much money should be dedicated to any particular need. So, if you use homelessness as an example, local governments and communities decided at first that homelessness would go away once the after effects of the Great Recession went away but instead it grew and grew, mainly because governments and unwise community leaders didn’t take into account how nearly impossible it is for people who lost homes, cars, jobs to recoup and recover from such devastating financial collapse. Individuals didn’t get compensated for their losses nor were they given jobs to get back on their feet. No, they were left to struggle and pull themselves up by their bootstraps as that is the way society has already determined what needs to be done. So, here we are a decade and a half later with a problem that again needs addressing, except now it’s a crisis. But no one. wants to put the money or energy into a problem where you have to get your hands and principles dirty as well as overhauled because for the last decade and a half tremendous amounts of money have been invested by local and state governments into building ungreen, high cost housing and unnecessary commercial enterprises, so they can pat themselves on the back, call it progress.

Meanwhile, the federal government has been busy making war and democracy in other countries while voting rights across the country have been curtailed, womens right to choose has been eliminated, gun violence, racial violence, police violence have all increased.

Its priority setting at its most mundane. Priorities are not what the politicians say they are, but what the money actually goes to. If you throw around five dollars to everyone but what is needed is five hundred, you’ve essentially provided only eye candy to the public.

With the way we've accepted things such as limiting the one basic necessity of real life living, taking care of ourselves, we've put ourselves in the same position as domesticated animals. Were led around by the various media platforms into beliefs about what ambition, and need mean, what jobs are important, etc.

Get rid of the slavemaster notion that use of criminals, immigrants, low income wage earners can be had almost free, despite their major contributions, such as in forest firefighting, picking crops, mass production. Full employment should be part of an overall plan to unite communities, work for yourself and community, which familes, friends, working side by side. Full employment should be abling work, satisfactory work as each individual sees what the community needs, as each community sees what individuals need, all working together.

We've let the powers that be control us, divide us, manipulate us with bad economics, bad solutions to pressing societal problems they refuse to fund solutions for, and a host of other restraints placed on us in order to keep us frustrated with each other and isolated from each other.

Make full employment a reality.