Bobby. wrote on Jan 4
th, 2024 at 5:50pm:
Many are - the true numbers are hidden.
Employers take advantage of desperate people.
You are claiming sufficent high skilled immigrants are being forced into minimum wage jobs to cause a reduction in per capita GDP, your first error; but the second error is more egregious; ie you blame Marx for a
systemic failure in modern Oz.
Quote:It's all caused by mass uncontrolled immigration -
millions upon millions of immigrants with no housing for them.
Your 3rd error; the govt. has failed to educate its available workers to fill the available jobs (whether high or low skilled) because of erroneous mainstream
government debt mythology.
Hence the excessive immigration, to avoid having to bear the cost of educating your own poeole.
Quote:Australia is being turned into a 3rd world slum like Calcutta.
Maybe (but the Indian govt. is trying to lift percapita incomes in Calcutta); in any case you can't blame Marx for the economic conditions in modern Oz or Calcutta, both of which follow non-Marxist "invisible hand" market/neoclassical principles.
Quote:That's the way the Marxist Govts want it.
Can't you see that our Govts. are evil?
Lo and behold - you DID blame Marx.....speaking of "seeing": your blind "invisible hand" mainstream ideology is evident.
Quote:Nothing can compare with the poverty in former communist countries.
Wrong. Conditions among subsistance farmers - the vast bulk of the population, in Tsarist Russia and pre revolutionay China were MUCH worse than after the revolutions (apart from periods of famine caused by mismanagement/enforcement of "collective farming").
But again, Marx did not envision that 'communism' would be established in such pre-industrial subsistance agriculture economies. So you can't blame Marx for the harsh authoritarian regimes which arose in those countries.
Whereas you can thank Marx for the development of unions ("Marxism") in the West, and for the Western "welfare states" established after WW2.
Quote:People risked death to get over the wall in Berlin.
They would rather die than live under communism.
Well, the communist
planned economy was not as successful as the "invisible hand" capitalist economy, but
we are facing different problems now...communism doesn't exist, and the 'invisible hand' markets are not functioning as intended.
[Interestingly the same "freedom" ideology seems to hold in Taiwan, despite the fact China has eradicated poverty at the fastest rate of any nation in history.
It will be interesting to see if the mainland can surpass the island's gdp per capita - what happens to the desire for "freedom", then?]