Is there indeed a general market saturation?
Are the old big industrial nations only growing slowly, because their sales markets are saturated?
Why have
wages fallen for 30 years, why have there been relatively modest
economic growth in the old industrialized countries since then?
Politicians of the globalization lobby are also rarely embarrassed
about this delicate question for an answer.
Regarding the weak economic growth, they argue that just for the sake
of market saturation, no big jumps would be possible. Consumption
needs are largely covered, automation in production is steadily
increasing, and thus increasing mass unemployment is an inevitable
fate.
Is consumer demand really covered?
In this comfortable view is embezzled that the general public still has unfulfilled desires. Who would not like to afford a better car or a nicer apartment, who would not rather consume organic food than nameless cheap goods?
The thesis of market saturation, I consider an absolute Schmarren! As long as new desirable products are invented, as long as the population does not indulge in pure luxury, there is no market saturation!
Therefore, the
talk of saturated markets with inevitably low economic rates is
nothing more than a lame excuse.
Even
with ongoing automation, there must be no mass unemployment, because
at the same time the demands grow and new desires arise.
Of course there is no infinite growth!
Growth limits are solely due to the scarcity of raw materials and the necessary environmental protection. But even from this arise no insoluble problems, but rather a compulsion to reason.
With a birth control, the population explosion could be contained and with the factor of working time would be to hold a sprawling consumerism in check. If production really reaches its natural limits, one would only need to shut down general working hours - in this way, it would be possible to achieve a better quality of life while maintaining prosperity.
A
general reduction of working time would only be a problem - it does
not work for the currently glorified global
dumping competition.
Only if one eliminates this meaningless undercutting fight (for
example by the revival of customs borders), shortening of working
hours does not cause higher unemployment numbers.
The fact that the 35-hour week failed in France and Germany is solely due to the practiced free trade (ie the waiving of import duties). Globalization is forcing a constant reduction in costs - social standards, high environmental standards and more humane working hours are just the stuff that makes the location more expensive.
Excuse
me!
There is no equality of opportunity - even when it comes to forming
opinions. While the capital (corporations, speculators, lobbyists,
media, governments) can afford the best translators, I have to settle
for a simple language program for financial reasons. I hope, however,
that the text is nevertheless reasonably understandable and that no
major mistakes have occurred. Thank you for your understanding.
Manfred Julius Müller, 24939 Flensburg (Flensburg has approx.
90,000 inhabitants and lies on the German-Danish
border)
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Background
and analysis:
• German
Political Encyclopedia: independent &
non-partisan
• Do
doctored statistics and state propaganda form the basis of our
democracy?
• Poverty
research: Which countries with high birth rates are really doing
well?
•
The
infiltration of democracy by the Cancel Culture movement
…
•
The
nasty tricks of the anti-democrats!
•
The
taming of capitalism!
The capitalist Reformation! 42 theses for a fairer world!
•
In
Germany wages have been falling since 1980.
Why?
• Germany:
The brazen proclamation of skills
shortage!
• Globalization:
the ignorance of the facts
• The
political and economic consequences of an
brexit
An
analytical consideration from German
view.
• "We
have to explain Europe better!"
• When
will the Dexit? (the withdrawal of Germany from the
EU)
• The
capitalist empowerment law
• taboo
subject protectionism
•
No
more export dependency!
© Manfred Julius Müller, Flensburg, Februar 2011, Nachtrag 2017
Manfred J. Müller has been analyzing global economic processes for 40 years. He is considered a pioneering thinker. For example, 20 years ago he called for a kind of supply chain law that obliges manufacturers and dealers to only import fairly remunerated and produced goods to Germany (finally became law in May 2021). He has also long recommended a minimum profits tax for large companies on domestic sales (Joe Biden's proposal for a global minimum profits tax in spring 2021 is finally moving in the same direction, but is far too lame and will hardly be implemented internationally). Manfred J. Müller has also been fighting for his idea of wage cost reform for three decades (gradual reduction of social security contributions with counter-financing through value added tax and customs duties).
Through
decades of brainwashing, the corporate lobby has succeeded
in making radical ideologies a matter of course! A
critical look behind the scenes of political
machinations:
Through
an army of loyal politicians and sympathetic journalists and
the superiority of their opinion factories, system-owned
economic institutes producing desired statistics, etc., they
have brought about social changes and laws that only serve
their special interests. This can be seen, for example, in
the development of earned income (real net wages and
pensions have been falling in Germany since 1980) on the one
hand and the gigantic jumps in profits on the other (such as
with shares and dividends). Should it always go on like
this?
The
dreaded books by Manfred Julius
Müller...