Jobsolescence

Jobsolescence: why chronic unemployment is the new normal, and what to do about it

Introduction

The American economy did eventually recover from the 2007 crash, but unemployment stayed high. "Job creation" was the buzz-phrase of the elections in 2008, 2010, and 2012.

Discarded bits

On the Right, "job creator" became a synonym for "large company" in order to justify continuing the failed policy of trickle-down economics. The Left, a bit more realistically, focused on the need for aid to the unemployed -- but even they regarded it as a temporary measure, a band-aid solution, while the Right considered even temporary measures as a gateway drug to "dependency" on "government hand-outs" (something they were all too willing to give to the aforementioned large corporations).