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No, that's completely wrong.
He said it should go UP by 40-50% ie about 6% - which is still low by Australian standards.
Unemployment averaged 8% in the 1980s and 10% in the 1990s.
Okay but increasing unemployment is meant to do exactly what this petty oligarch wants: discipline labor, preventing workers (that's us) from eking out a little more from a very lopsided economic system.
Marx referred to the unemployed aa the reserve army of labor for capital. The bourgeois use it to say: "Want safer conditions? Enough money to pay rent and go to the doctor? Tough shit, there are hundreds of people I can call on to take your job."
The unemployment rate is carefully curated by the capitalist class to prevent low rates and their worst nightmare, full employment.
If unemployment rate is the key, why not create so many worker cooperatives that everybody can have a job?
You got the money for that? They tried it back in thr 70s. The banks froze them out and bought their assets on the cheap after the sabotaging
You will have to bootstrap it.
No, we can just wait for America to fail and let China do it.
Yes, let's also outsource the revolution.
Will China take over America? If not, why would China change the economic system in the West? Without the petrodollar, there should just be significantly less resources available.
Yeah, eventually. Resources would stay the same. Money is fake. That would have no reason to change anything.
Money is not fake in international trade. Resources can be delivered to other countries.
Resources are real, but many doesn't correctly correlate with resources. Look at all the times everything has fallen appart when they try to use money for stuff and people realize that. Look at 08, look at the current covid depression.
Those problems don't help to fix the import problem.