Human Wealth Output

Human Wealth Output

How much wealth does an average human create? Even in ancient times with primitive tools humans easily made more wealth than they consumed. Today with modern tools a human can easily produce ten times more than his ancestors or more. Let’s examine the Cuban exile example and ask this question. Has permitting 800,000 Cuban exiles to move here and work shrunk our economy or increased our economy? Have Cubans cost the government more or less in tax expenditures compared to tax receipts?

We don’t have to answer those questions because you already know these rhetorical questions have obvious answers. The fact of the matter is if I could dig a tunnel to Cuba from the Keys and sneak the Cuban people out in a biblical-like exodus, American wealth output would immediately explode and Cuban GDP would drop to zero. But these Cubans would take up all the jobs, right? That’s what xenophobes will cry believing that there are but so many jobs and once they are filled that’s it. That’s ridiculous! Even in a slave labor income taxed environment that reduces job creation, as well as urban land hoarding which reduces construction and renovation jobs, there is always enough work to hire able-bodies men and women. In fact it is just the above-mentioned job killers along with their profit reducing paperwork requirements and regulatory (strangulatory) laws that not only shrink the numbers of jobs but also reduce overall wages and benefits. That’s because when the government and private interests (the especially privileged) greedily enforce stupid economic policies they artificially keep the number of jobs lower than the workers willing to fill them. Too many people chasing too few jobs are a recipe for poor wages and benefits.

Why do they reduce jobs like this beyond greed if it causes so much poverty and so many social costs? It is because desperate people are easier to control and they are left with little time to think on a higher level about society and how they are being governed. They must somehow put food on the table and complete their low-paying job requirements while completely exhausted. This is simply the economics of 21^st Century slavery. The masters have new addresses in places like Washington, DC and other national and state/provincial locations around the world. These government/multinational corporate plantation masters have figured how to use the revolution in communications to allow the tracking of all of us slaves so they can compile our labor output and decide how to spend it. The plantation has just been greatly expanded by using electronic cyber fences. Some might believe that having our masters decide how to spend half of our labor resources a wise thing. Why was the levee in New Orleans not upgraded while billions were spent blowing up Iraq?

So now, Cubans caught on the high seas are returned to Castro’s gulag but why if they would actually make our economy stronger? It is because it would expose the lies about the above slavery setup. They are sacrificial lambs to the belief that jobs are finite. If the ball and chains of our government/corporate masters were removed the fact is every new worker here would produce easily ten times more than consumed to maintain his basic needs. That nine out of every ten dollars he is producing will be buying other things for his comfort and needs which must be filled by other humans working at different jobs. Think about it people. This is not rocket science when you think about it. Think about it even though our masters have tried to leave you with as little time and energy as possible to do so. Think about it.

Tomás Estrada-Palma