The Lion from Nemea and the unemployment
Cacildo Marques
The hero Heracles (that is Hercules for the Romans) it was seen in the incumbency of destroying the lion that devoured whole cities, as it happened with the population of Nemea. The common people could not defeat it, because its skin was to the proof of iron, bronze or stones.
Because Heracles strangled the lion of Nemea just using the own hands. But nor all of the cities and nor all of the times have heroes like Heracles and, a lot of times, indestructible lions bite whole populations without any appear threats to the satisfaction of its voracious appetite.
The lion of the days today is the corporate use of the technology against the survival perspectives deigns for the humble people. This lion doesn't eat their victims literally, but it devours their jobs, throwing them in the despair and, in certain cases, even in the poverty.
The technology in itself exists to perfect and to impel the human progress. What has of harmful is the power to use it to harm certain types of people and to favor other, without it is been in a declared war or in a game open of conflict of classes.
A lot of occupations views little time behind as indispensable they are, of one moment for other, declared obsolete. People that were specializing in a work type along their adult life can, suddenly, to discover that their apprenticeship doesn't have more change value and their professional knowledge doesn't pass of museum piece. Without psychological structure and without access to positions that would guarantee them a new training, those people will thicken the unemployment statistics and they will lose the most vital references of their existences.
That it doesn't require himself nor be waited of the companies or of their administrators that, individually, find solution for the problem. The goal of the company is to win money, as well it verified Goldrat, the physicist that if it turned consultant of companies, and the one of the executive is to maintain or to improve his position in the job market. These facts impede that the initiative to solve the problem of the unemployment in mass appeared with the change of the production process leaves of those social subjects, once any peep back can mean the transformation in statue of salt with the sudden loss of the competitiveness. In that sense, the market is as an intense current and to park the boat it would be necessary to tie it to the margin, with the inevitable consequence that the race will be lost.
The solution, therefore, it cannot be microeconomical, that is, it cannot leave of that or of that company, of that or of that section. It is necessary to solve the subject in joined extent, through norms and national and international politics. The parliaments and the governments are the main ones responsible for the urgent elaboration of a strategy that guarantees to the people the necessary combat mechanism to the natural selection in that such essential area of the human life that it is the work, to example of other instruments that live together with us there are centuries or there are decades, as house, school (the main, according to Bertrand Russel), religion, Social welfare, vaccinates, electrification, contraceptives and basic sanitation. Those creations of the human mind are armors against those bad weather that do of the nature a type of Chronos, that generates children for soon afterwards to triturate them and to swallow them. The whole enthusiasm of the human social intelligence (the magnanimous, no the pusillanimous), from its appearance, has the one been of giving the that task (Herculean, why not?) of taming the cruelty of the natural selection.
It is necessary that the creators of opinion (or the creators of symbols, as ambassadress Jeane Kirkpatrick said) they are aware to deny the job warranty to the citizens it is to abstain of using the intelligence in which she has of useful. Far away from wanting tie the employee to his boss again, easy and anti-libertarian exit, which the society disputes at this time is a rational structure of allocation reallocation of employees, in way to abolish the dark and animalistic illustration of the involuntary unemployment once and for all.
JORNAL DA VILA SONIA - Mar/18/2000
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