Labor Day!

Happy Labour day! It’s the unofficial end of Summer, a day for picnics and barbecues.

But it is important to remember what this holiday is about. Especially in today’s economic and labour climate. There are so few jobs today, that employers are routinely cheating all employees – not just the illegal immigrant labour

From Wikipedia about the origin of Labour Day:

The first Labor Day in the United States was celebrated on September 5, 1882 in New York City.[1] In the aftermath of the deaths of a number of workers at the hands of the US military and US Marshals during the 1894 Pullman Strike, President Grover Cleveland put reconciliation with Labor as a top political priority. Fearing further conflict, legislation making Labor Day a national holiday was rushed through Congress unanimously and signed into law a mere six days after the end of the strike.[2] Cleveland was also concerned that aligning a US labor holiday with existing international May Day celebrations would stir up negative emotions linked to the Haymarket Affair.[3] All 50 U.S. states have made Labor Day a state holiday.

Other nations have a similar holiday with May 1st, celebrating the origin of the 8 hour work day. But America’s Labour Day has lost much political edge that May Day has as a holiday.

A brief meditation about Labour is frightening. Not long ago most people could find jobs in manufacture and industry. Now setting aside ‘outsourcing’ for a moment, the reality is that technology alone has destroyed the employment engine of manufacturing and industry. Where once armies of employees were required to maintain the production of industry – now robotics and technology has eliminated the need for the vast majority of those numbers of employees.

Filling the employment vacuum is the service sector: sales, cashiers, customer service, cooks, janitors..etc. But technology alone, it threatens service sector jobs as well. Use a Bank’s Automated Teller Machine lately? That used to be a person.

And sure enough, in this economic climate Jobless numbers are suppressed by those former workers that have been so thoroughly discouraged in their job search, they have stopped looking all together. Thereby these people are no longer being counted among the ‘unemployed’.

The purpose of this website is to find a way out of this despair. Magic is empowering, it let’s you enjoy the feeling that you have some control in your life. Sceptics may suggest magic isn’t real, but of course the Chaos magic perspective is so: Nothing is real! Everything is permitted.

I can only promise you that if you try magic, that it will work for you on a subjective level, and that’s what counts.

if you run your own business, no one can fire you. And online, the start -up costs for business are really doable, even without a job.

And, let’s face it, this is no recession . I fear ‘recovery’ may be for corporations and the wealthiest 5% alone. The real recovery that’s needed to get everyone a good job, we cannot count on that. So if you have a PHD, in this economic environment a ‘McJob’ is better than no paycheck, and your own business is perhaps what we need to think of as the engine for upward economic mobility.

Speaking personally – No jobs in Graphic Design, tech support or advertising locally. I may find myself working as a janitor – I will hold my head high should it come to that.

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