Radio news just now, talking about "job growth" and listing medical as first in their list of where such number goes up is happening.
Now why might we be seeing more need for medical jobs in now our fifth year of pandemic?
Meanwhile, ex-administration official they bring in to talk to the issue, skips right past this; talks about growth in hospitality jobs "after" pandemic "lock-downs".
To explain job openings in 2024.
Because of course he does.
Walked away before segment ended, but 99% confident that despite opening with a gesture toward "growth" in medical jobs, the #NPR "what does this mean for inflation" news person let their guest expert's explanation by way of diversion to the bottom of the list… go unchallenged.
Because of course they would have. This is the fourth estate of #RentierSociety, after all.
Also, notably, second on the list? Oh, look, "government" jobs. Orly? What sort of "government" jobs are those?
Via Labor Dept:
"Health care added 72,000 jobs in March, above the average monthly gain of 60,000 over the prior 12 months. In March, job growth continued in ambulatory health care services (+28,000), hospitals (+27,000), and nursing and residential care facilities (+18,000).
…employment in government increased by 71,000, higher than the average monthly gain of 54,000 over the prior 12 months. Over the month, employment increased in local government (+49,000) and federal government (+9,000). "
Over the past 12 months, healthcare has lead job growth, with three-quarters of a million healthcare jobs added across the industry, at the same time as hospital capacity (staffed beds) has remained stagnantly below 2020 levels:
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Followed by local gov't, at over a third of a million jobs added, majority of which were non-education jobs.
Leading non-education jobs in local governments (per 2022 Census): police and hospitals.
So March job growth is healthcare & police. 🤔
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This is #RentierSociety.
A country that spends more money per capita on healthcare than comparable countries, with poorer outcomes, including greater premature mortality, wherein a progressively sicker and more disabled population is a #RentBounty harvest of inelastic demand, hires more healthcare workers to extract those rents—and this is lauded by the #KayfabePanto…
While quietly police employment climbs.
But sure, let's talk about growth in hospitality jobs. i.e., bread and circuses. Yay‽
Economy's booming because of all the sickness those of oligarch #classposture get to harvest #RentBounty from!
Huzzah!
Thank Vibe'n that restaurants & entertainment industries also happen to be hiring, or else how would we distract from fact that over one in four new jobs in past year were in healthcare, and another estimated 50 thousand new jobs nationally, at minimum, were newly hired local police?
(~13% of local gov't jobs are police, local gov't jobs increased by 376K in past 12 months.)
If the two premier sources of wage-labor job growth in your vaunted economy are too embarrassing not to skip right over and talk about something else, maybe line goes up ain't the way to organize a society.
The painfully pointed irony of a sickwork—not even legitimately "sickcare", as multiple folk tried to characterize the problem in the decade before our pandemic era—jobs program being called a "healthcare" industry.
Might as well call lumberjacks "climate care workers". (Sorry, was that my cynicism showing?)
Sickworker, here, operates as does farmworker—one who works on the sickness of society, as field to be sown & reaped.
Where diseases are crops.
When #lumpentheory speaks of #conveyancée #classposture under #RentierSociety, this includes all material relations where the individual is rendered as a conduit for extraction of #RentBounty harvest.
Not simply one's landlord—where the rent-bounty relation is made explicit, nor even one's creditors—but also every industry whose existence is predicated on the mere existence of one's body as source of exchange-value, however that exchange-value may originate.
Thus we have the sickwork industry.
On further consideration, have taken notes from etymology to dub such sickwork industry, discussed at length above, with a new term:
⚚ aglithaculture ⚚
Literally, cultivation of affliction.
Here, by way of etymology, also capturing the senses of ableist shame and medical gaslighting.
To differentiate aglithaculture from any claim to medicine, note above use of stylized caduceus—carried by heralds as a ward against profanation or trespass into their domain; yet later associated with alchemy.
Note that symbol used above is unicode alchemical symbol "Staff of Hermes", as distinct from the unicode glyph of the two serpent "Caduceus of Hermes" still often misused by medical establishments in place of the Rod of Asclepius.
One might think hospitals and other facilities are telling on themselves for so regularly using a symbol for commerce where one would expect a symbol for medicine.
Yet the alchemical symbol better speaks to sickworking as a mercurial drawing of wealth from impurity.
Unlike a "healthcare industry", even a "sickcare" industry, ⚚aglithacultural industry is inherently a colonial relation.
To celebrate that job growth is line goes up, when that job growth is lead by sickworking jobs, is akin to celebrating the expansion of agricultural jobs following a homesteading rush.
As Liboiron tells us, pollution is colonialism. Goes back as far as public health laws about how far from the colonial fort to dump human waste. Aglithaculture thrives on colonial sanitation.
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.