When we Philosophically examine the problem of unemployment and job creation

Unemployment is a tragedy that stems from our inability to understand ourselves well enough, and then properly exploit what we have realized about our needs with the use of managerial and financial discipline.

On closer examination – really be true. The rich world remains full of genuine unmet needs and therefore full of honest employment possibilities. To get a sense of the untapped opportunities, we need only think of all the things that make us miserable on a day-to- day basis: behind most of our quotidian frustrations and grief’s, entire industries are waiting to be created. There will be no so-called legitimate, deserved unemployment until the day when all our needs have been met or, put another way until everyone is content and satiated. We’re still rather a long way off this point.

The unemployment that currently exists is in no way inevitable or necessary: it is a symptom of our inability to identify and then adequately organize ourselves to satisfy our needs.

We know from history that a great many of our once unmet needs were later fulfilled (with huge implications for employment) in ways that didn’t depend on the development of any particularly radical kind of technology.

There may well have been a process of standardization and industrialization, but no genius-level scientific fix was needed. In fact, more interestingly, new jobs were created because certain of our needs came into focus; they entered our imaginations as things we wanted; we became more aware of things that were missing in our lives – and jobs followed on a large scale.

The roadblocks are cognitive; we aren’t thinking properly.

The search to reduce unemployment and create jobs has normally been focused on bluntly economic levers: keeping down inflation, tax breaks, regional support, the reduction of red tape around taking on new employees.

But we can see another larger prior factor: the need to cultivate a particular mentality in which imaginative and executive skills are united.