May 10, 2021

Willingness to work is being pushed more and more dogmatically to the forefront by conservatives as their explanation and justification for the economic mess which they were instrumental in creating. It says, not us, it's them who created this problem.

It always has been a theme in shaping the conservative cause. The conservative cause is a war against the lower classes. Conservatives need vulnerable persons to blame for their criminality. Conservatives supposedly have no choice but to tear down the social order to save mankind from vulnerable persons in the lower classes.

The first thing Trump did when elected was to close the borders to everyone entering from ten countries with Arab elements but including Venezuela, which is mostly Christian. The speed was a statement indicating that the country was on the verge of being destroyed by its supposed enemies. Arabs and Christians from the wrong countries were assumed to be that way.

As a statement rather than a fact, the message was supposed to carry far beyond the immediate. The message was supposed to state that the war against the lower classes had a real purpose. Survival of the country was supposedly at stake.

Unreal and exaggerated claims are an attempt to combat objective reality. The more ridiculous the purpose, the more effort that is required to impose it. There was way too much effort in Trump's attempt to convince us that vulnerable persons from oppressed countries were on the verge of overthrowing the U.S.

As time goes on, conservatives are forced back to their standby excuse for destroying the lower classes—the claim that the vulnerable nobodies are unwilling to work. (Being unwilling to work is the substitute claim for being on the verge of overthrowing the country.) The fakery, in any of it forms, is an attempt to rationalize the war against the lower classes.

The standby claim of unwillingness to work needs to be picked apart, because lies destroy a wide swath of essential realities. The relationship between labor and management has been a critical part of economic analysis for at least two centuries, while the unwillingness to work claim replaces all related realities with an empty shell that has no possible analysis.

The impetus of the claim of unwillingness to work is relied upon due to the fact that having a job is the first concern of all corrupters. No job, no place in human existence. Corrupters make sure of it. So they also make sure they and their friends and supporters are always employed. If then, vulnerable persons at the bottom of society are unwilling to work, they must have something wrong with their thought patterns that must be corrected through the social engineering that conservatives do.

To make jobs unavailable to their enemies, conservatives make sure that the minimum wage is below the minimum living expenses required for employment. Those contradictions cannot be solved by the vulnerable persons who conservatives shove out of the social order.

So liberals keep trying to increase the minimum wage, while conservatives keep trying to prevent it from happening. Conservatives say that workers will only put themselves out of work if the minimum wage is increased. Why isn't the same logic applied to CEOs and management who make tens of millions of dollars? Why aren't they putting themselves out of work? Whatever the reason is, why don't conservatives fix that problem instead of fixing the vulnerable nobodies?

The question of who is willing to work and who is not willing to work is not a relevant question until the jobs are available in a constructive economy. That situation does not exist. So it is the irresponsibility of the decision makers that created the result. The motives of the nobodies are not relevant until the decision makers get responsible in their management of the economy.
 

 
At this time, conservatives in state governments are refusing to accept federally appropriated unemployment funds saying job openings are not being filled and workers need to be forced to do so by refusing to pay them available assistance. The main reason for the unfilled jobs is that they are mostly minimum wage jobs, where the income did not keep up with expenses, particularly increased housing costs. A worker can't go to work at a job that doesn't pay living expenses. That problem existed before the pandemic, as businesses were putting up help-wanted signs right and left for two years before the pandemic. It means robbing the unemployed persons is not going to fix the problem.

In other words, the social engineering that conservatives do is devoid of rational analysis. Creating a force and imposing contradictions onto vulnerable persons is the only process that conservatives know. Trying to add rationality to the subject would expose their incompetence and corruptness.