“Something about the U.S. economy is not adding up….How can an economy that is growing so slowly produce such big declines in unemployment.”
This is a fair assessment. What then is the cause of slow growth and unemployment. Full employment is not an objective of businesses. Companies strive to keep labor input and other costs at a minimum. Private sector job creation in numbers that match the pool of people willing and able to work is constantly being eroded by physical productive capital’s ever increasing role. Over the past century there has been an ever-accelerating shift to productive capital––which reflects tectonic shifts in the technologies of production. The mixture of labor worker input and capital worker input has been rapidly changing at an exponential rate of increase for over 235 years in step with the Industrial Revolution (starting in 1776) and had even been changing long before that with man’s discovery of the first tools, but at a much slower rate. Up until the close of the nineteenth century, the United States remained a working democracy, with the production of products and services dependent on labor worker input. When the American Industrial Revolution began and subsequent technological advance amplified the productive power of non-human capital, plutocratic finance channeled its ownership into fewer and fewer hands, as we continue to witness today with government by the wealthy evidenced at all levels.
The solution is investment with the requirement that productive capital ownership be broadened, so that ALL Americans, can over time build a viable capital estate and earn income through their capital worker contribution, as the rich minority does now and has always done.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2012/03/15/government-wrong-on-jobs-and-wages-again/
