Commoditization of Labor
BY PGF2 years ago
Chart via Charles Hugh Smith.
Quiet quitting is giving up on your job and your company without actually resigning because it’s been made clear that it’s a hopeless endeavor to effect change that satisfies the human desire for the accomplishment which drives self-worth.
All job slots are being turned into a commodity. Fill a role, and follow the rules. Try to advance; no is the answer. Try a lateral move; no. Make a suggestion; follow the guidelines like a good monkey is all you get. Procedure-driven cost reduction has turned work into a nightmare for younger workers. A profit-driven race to the bottom doesn’t include learning, growing, or contributing. A worker is a unit of production cost in the global communist drive to equalization of all assets, of which an employee is merely an interchangeable byte. This communist equality in the workplace includes salaries, options, and ever-repressive systematized drudgery based on computational algorithms to maximize profit. The American job place is demeaning to the spirit which God has given men to conquer in dominion that which He has blessed them to take charge over. The divide is not generational; the businesses have changed to garbage in – garbage out workaday soul-crushing slogs. Every employee is a mere cog in the global communist New Order. Creativity is frowned upon as cost competition with foreign sweatshops demands throwaway products, services, and people. Companies complain they can’t find workers, and customers complain that all the products, services, and people delivering them are ineffective or worse. The companies want them that way; they have no more small business competition nipping at their heels. Lobbyists have solved that pesky problem; what do global corporations care for the customer? And therefore, an employee is also a throwaway component. Every specialization is being absorbed into the global equality blob of gray meaninglessness. The worker never sees a customer’s smiling face at a wonderful product or service delivered; all they hear are complaints that they have no power to correct. Imagine spending half your day apologizing for C-suite masters you’ve never met because your work peer is somebody who doesn’t speak English working for a bowl of rice a day in some place you can’t pronounce or find on a map. And then, they tell you to train your foreign replacement, although they don’t say it that directly. The younger generation can’t express these things because they’ve been purposefully dumbed down. Oh well, give ’em the shot; the New Order doesn’t need them anyway.
On September 13, 2022 at 12:00 pm, Aaron Yetter said:
Hard to care when everyone is paid the same rate after your first 3 years. Doesn’t matter if your a slug or give a 100%. Now the new hires are starting at full rate.
On September 13, 2022 at 1:24 pm, PGF said:
@Aaron Yetter, I had thought to edit the post to point out that it will only get worse. In a communist system, when all is supposed to be equal, there is no incentive to produce. The classic Libertarians are only partly right. It’s not only money or greed; although those are good motivators for a person, it’s also a purpose. “All within the State” crushes the soul into a purposeless existence; the State is not God. If one has no gain, nothing to show for their efforts, they won’t work. People do many things for reasons well beyond money, proving that gain can be spiritual in a soul-satisfying sense. Beauty is not only an eye-pleasing aesthetic, and communism creates nothing, and especially nothing of beauty.