Website owner: James Miller
Facts of life: Competition in a world of limited resources.
Scarcity of good, well-paying jobs and competition for them.
The central, most important concern of humanity around the
world is that of finding and holding onto jobs. In all
countries (whatever the political and economic system of the
country) there is that scramble for jobs. In all countries
there are relatively few good jobs and there is competition
for them.
The underlying, important "fact of life" for people around the
world is the need for food and shelter. That generally means
finding and holding onto a job.
To get the good jobs you must climb above those around you in
some way; you must distinguish yourself; you must rise above
the masses. Thus, competition with your fellow human; you
must shine over him, look better than him, do better than
him. Some people raise themselves above their fellow men by
fair methods (such as hard work). Others use methods not so
fair or so honest.
To hold onto a job you must please your employer and this often
means you must bend your moral principles in one way or
another, do things you know are wrong, because that is what
he requires.
It seems that wherever you live in this world there are more
people than jobs; that a job is a hard thing to find and a
thing you don't want to lose once obtained. It is sustenance
not only for you but also for your family. It is not just
your needs that are dependent on that job but also the needs
of those that you love, those that depend on you. Their needs
as well as yours are dependent on that job.
At its fundamental level human society is ruled by laws of
survival and competition that are, in essence, much the same
as those that rule the natural world of wild animals --- the
laws of the jungle. He who does not have a job is on the
outside in a cold, cruel world.
Feb 1990
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