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Last updated on June 17th, 2017 at 07:13 am
Terry Lane, on permanent loan to Melbourne’s Age from the museum of communism, is depressed:
As the voices of dissent falter under the weight of the free market, power is shifting further away from the working class.
Out here on the pseudo-neo-ersatz-Marxist-extreme left the mood is gloomy. We know that news of factory closures and the export of jobs to Asia should cheer us up because Karl predicted it would happen …
There is now no voice of dissent in the political realm – unless you count the valiant Greens – arguing for a different way of living. Less competitive and more co-operative. Less greedy and more concerned about the welfare of sacked windscreen-wiper makers and fly-screen weavers and seatbelt assemblers.
If Terry is genuinely concerned about the workers’ welfare, he should be rejoicing. Take a look at these numbers, Mr Gloomy:
A record 61.2per cent of the working-age population now hold a job, with the latest unemployment figures showing the rate still at a 29-year low … The labour force participation rate—those either in work or looking for a job—has also reached a record 64.6 per cent.
Who knows where Lane’s apocalyptic unemployment notions came from. Perhaps he thinks we’re still ruled by Gough Whitlam.
