Onshoring Desperation

Yeah. Well, you know, sorry to interrupt, brother. Can you hear me? No. No.

It's fine. I don't know coming. Yeah. Please. Okay.

I think I think the the interesting thing about a Jeffrey Sachs is that he really, really will, you know, he as they say, he sings for his supper. So whoever is paying for his supper, he's going to sing the tune that they like. So back in the nineties, this is what he was saying. In the nineties, early two thousands, this is what he was saying. He won't say that now because the tide has shifted.

And now he's more pro BRICS and and talking about how how the the global South has been hard done by, you know, and how Africa has been pillaged and Africa is supposed to be a rich nation and all of these things. He's not going be saying you all need to be in sweatshops. He's not going to say that now. Thirty years ago he was saying that because he'll say it according to whoever is ascendant at that time. And at that time, you know, we're talking about, when the Soviet Union had collapsed and America was the unipolar power.

When America was, in that brief moment of history, I've talked about many times, that blip in history, when America was a unipolar power, they were acting like it was gonna last forever and now we will just talk like that, that everyone who wants to rise needs to just serve our interest and become basically willing slave labor around the world because this is the new world order. America is the is the boss, and you have to serve the imperial hub. He won't talk like that now, and he's not talking like that now. And and very, Muslims with very short memories are sharing his content and thinking he's a friend of the Muslims. He's not.

The same way they do with Tucker Carlson, who's not by any stretch of the imagination a friend of the Muslims or a friend of the global South or Candace Owens or any of these other types. These people will will just, as I say, they sing for their supper, And so whoever is providing the dish, they will sing whatever tune those people particularly like. So at this time, Jeffrey Sachs is singing a tune that he thinks China will like, that he thinks Saudi Arabia will like, that he thinks Russia will like, and that tells you everything that you need to know about what are what the ascendant powers are, what the ascendant figures are, what the ascendant states are, what the ascendant powers are that are steering the course of the global economy over the next fifty years. Jeffrey Sachs can sniff that out because he's just like an alley cat that just finds whoever wherever the food is, that's where he goes and he's gonna meow for whoever is gonna give him the the dish. So in the nineties that was Washington, in the nineties that was Wall Street, so that was the tune that he had thirty years ago.

But like I say, he won't say he won't say those same things now. I mean, terms of Africa, there's no reason why whatsoever why Africa should why why why Africans should become the manufacturing force for America, and everyone knows it. You you can't manufacture anything without African minerals. You can't manufacture anything without African natural resources. Africa already already fuels the entire global economy.

Africa and Asia and South America, you can't make anything without them. So, they they are in a position to actually dictate whether or not anything gets made at all. But, yes, this is this is anyway, we're we're you know, going back to, what we were earlier talking about and like what what you were talking about with the now they're trying to hype up labor. Look. This is this is just a a kind of a way of helping, Americans and Westerners cope with the reality.

Because we're not talking about, like, okay, look at look at, for example, I talked about this before. One of the most, toxic sociopathic statements that an American leader ever said that was that was touted always as as one of the great statements by an American president was John F Kennedy, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country, which as I said before, if that was in a relationship, that would be the most toxic possible thing that you could ever say to someone. Don't ask what I can do for you, ask what you can do for me. And this is this is the same idea, but, we're not talking about a national project. This isn't Burkina Faso, for example, where the Burkinaabe people are, banding together and working together to build up their country.

You're working for corporations, and now they're trying to sell you the honor and the nobility of labor because you don't have any choice. The standard of life, the quality of life, the desperation of the working class, the desperation of working people, has to be spun in some kind of way to make you think that it's wonderful and that you like it. Even though you're in an absolutely desperate situation. It's just like what I was talking about with with a Bangladesh or Indonesia or what have you. You can't say that those countries are selling out their populations because they accept the terms that they are forced to accept in terms of providing jobs for their people in what what what's the name Naomi Klein talks about as if they're selling out their people.

You made them desperate. You destroyed their countries. You destroyed their economies. They have no choice. They're in a position of compulsion.

They're in a position of coercion. And now that same compulsion, that same desperation that causes the compulsion that is the main compelling coercive force is that desperation, that insecurity, that instability, that precarity, now you have imposed that upon your own people. So this is the situation they've created. And as I said earlier, the the only real change is that now, it's being applied is but it's the same logic. So there's not it's not really correct to even say that it there's a change.

There's only a change in where it is being applied in that it used to be applied overseas and now it's being applied domestically. You've created the same conditions in the American population by different means to one extent or another, by different means But, in in a way, it's almost more, breathtaking because you did it very rapidly. In a place like Bangladesh, you had hundreds of years of colonization. In a place like Indonesia, you had hundreds of years of colonization. In America, you've been able to do this to your population over just the last fifty, sixty, seventy years where you've you've completely destroyed the social fabric.

You've completely destroyed the stability. You've completely destroyed the the social security. And you know, I don't mean the program, I mean the actual security of the society. The old assumptions about work, the old assumptions about labor. There's no way that you can revive all of that, that you can resuscitate all of that and have it mean anything close to the same thing as when you used to talk about the so called protestant work ethic back in the old days or the pioneer days or whatever, when you were trying to so called build your nation on the on the blood and bones of the indigenous people.

When you were trying to build up your nation, this is a completely different scenario. Now it's trying to portray basically slave labor that is, by means of the chains of social instability and precarity and, the coercion of desperation, you're trying to act like now this is a choice and you should be proud of yourself for serving your master who you have no choice but to serve. So it's it's all narrative. There's no way that this will that this will resonate. And as I say, it's just trying to prepare the people for basically you have a life of drudgery ahead of and you should embrace that and be proud of that, and there's honor in labor.

It's incredibly cynical and and frankly, it's sadistic. Yeah. SubhanAllah, this this is one of the most one of the most disturbing things. And the one of the one of the most disturbing things about it is that the people themselves are are propagating this this propaganda, the grind culture, you know, beyond your grind, the the side hustle, all of these things. Instead of talking about that you should have a livable wage in the first place, the side side hustle should not be necessary.

Grinding so called grinding should not be necessary. You should be able to make a living on your job. Your job should pay you a livable wage. Your the your cost of living should be commensurate with what what the people are getting paid. The the the hustle culture, the side hustle culture, the grind culture or whatever is nothing but a declaration of a completely failed economic model.

This means that your society has completely abandoned you and you are absolutely on your own. And there's no way that you can expect to have healthcare, you can't expect to have insurance, you can't expect to be able to pay for day care. You can't expect to be able to pay for education. You can't expect to be able to do anything with just a job. No.

You have to be working all the time, and you have to fend for yourself because no one's gonna do anything for you. So it's become, you know, like I say, the the Kennedy quote, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. Your country is not gonna do anything for you. This is another way of saying it. Your country is gonna do nothing for you.

Your company is gonna do nothing for you. They are completely offloading all risk, offloading all liability, offloading all cost, offloading all danger. Everything is offloaded upon the worker. All responsibility is offloaded upon the worker, and the company, the corporation and the government takes no responsibility for anything whatsoever. They only take the upside and you get no upside.

So if you want to get any hint, any scent, if you want to be able to even smell the upside, you have to work your fingers to the bone. You have to find all kind of different side hustles, all kind of different so called passive income options. Everything that you can possibly do, work yourself into an early grave just to be able to make ends meet, and you're supposed to be proud of that. And and they sell that to you like you're a free agent, and now you're free, and you're an independent contractor, you're an entrepreneur, and what have you. No.

You're desperate. You're just desperate. And your country has abandoned you and your even your private sector has abandoned you and they're even even worse than abandoning you, they are preying upon you. Yeah. This this is this is what I mean about the the the underlying so called civilizational foundations of of that society that are the actual root cause of all of these problems.

So, and this is this is not just American, but it's western. And so even, you know, like I say, Naomi Klein is approaching or even she wrote this book, in my opinion, she wrote this book as an argument in favor of the dogma that she believes in, socialism, and the whole sort of leftist, you know, workers of the world unite and so on. And you're not addressing the the the core issue here. You're not addressing the core civilizational, really moral issue here. Because like for example, in Islam, explicitly prohibited contractual agreements where risk is transferred to the weaker party.

And explicitly stated that how to say this? Benefit how to say, no, responsibility rather, responsibility rests upon the the the the one who is profiting. The responsibility for the one who is contributing profit or who who is responsible for making the profit is to be taken care of by the one who's profiting from that exchange. And the risk or the liability is not to be transferred down to the weaker party in a contractual agreement. This is a this is a a principle in our fiqh, and it's a moral principle, and it's completely absent.

And you see just by that quote that brother Khadifa mentioned from the from that New Yorker. I have no responsibility whatsoever for other people. My success isn't your success, and I don't owe you anything. Okay? So if you follow that logic, then that also means that I can go ahead and make my success upon your suffering because I have no responsibility to you whatsoever.

My success I mean, the the the logic is the same. I have no responsibility as a human being to other people, to even my own fellow citizens, so called. So if if if in my state of success, I don't owe you any support, I don't owe you any sympathy, I don't owe you any empathy, I don't owe you any compassion, I don't have any responsibility for you, then I also didn't have any of those things in my path to success, which means that I can just be a predator and I can prey upon you, and my success can be based exclusively upon my exploitation of you and that's your problem. It this is psychopathic. It's sociopathic at best, psychopathic at worst, which is the idea that everyone and I've talked about this recently, the instrumentalization of everyone and everything around you.

Everyone and everything around you is just an instrument for you to be used, an object for you to be used, a utility for you to maximize benefit for yourself, profit for yourself, enrichment for yourself, and you owe no responsibility whatsoever. Because if a person isn't going to fight back, if a person isn't going to stand up for their rights, if a person is going to be taken advantage of, well, that's just their lot in life. And I don't I I have no responsibility to deal with them justly. If I'm able to deal with them unjustly, then I can deal with them unjustly. It's as I've talked I've talked about many times, it's the law of the jungle.

It's the law of might makes right. If I'm able to do it, then I get to do it. And this this again has to do with the fact that you have created the conditions in the society where it's not even like the the the so called capitalist always like to talk about what consensual exchange between say labor and capital that the worker makes an informed choice and agrees consensually to be engaged in this work at this salary and so forth. This is so delusional. I mean, would say it's delusional if anyone actually believed it, but I think that when they're saying it, know what they're doing, they know that they're gaslighting, they know that they're covering up the reality of coercive conditions in the society that remove the element of choice to begin with.

There's already a coercive element in a in a society where your whole, survival is so precarious, your ability to survive, your ability to even buy your groceries and pay your rent and go to school and care for your children and so forth, all of this depends upon you agreeing to that wage at that job. It agree it it it all depends upon you agreeing to the conditions being dictated by capital. So there's there's there is no exchange. There's no agreement between a worker and capital that is without coercion, without compulsion because you've created the conditions in the society. Just like I was talking about again with Bangladesh or Indonesia or any formerly colonized country, you've created conditions in those societies where it is now impossible for you to blame them or or accuse them of selling out when they allow these conditions to be imposed upon their people.

You have created conditions where they you have weakened them to such an extent, you have undermined them and sabotaged them to such an extent, and you have made them so desperate to survive that now they have no choice. So choice has been completely removed from the scenario, and this is this is overlooked. And the and the reason why choice has been removed from the scenario isn't because of corporations. It's not because of multinational corporations. It's not even because of capitalism.

It's because of a civilizational foundational flaw, in in the type of people that you are in the first place. And you if you'd never address that, it doesn't matter if it's gonna be socialism or communism or Marxism or capitalism or libertarianism or anarchism. It doesn't make any difference whatsoever because your moral foundation, is cracked. Your moral foundation is already weak. Your moral foundation is already full of holes, and your society is continuously gonna drop through those holes no matter what system you impose.

Like I said, you you you you watch them do it by offshoring factories to, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, and so forth. The the the the underlying logic of that is the offloading of liability, the offloading of responsibility, and the monopolization of all benefit, the the monopolization of the upside, the monopolization of profit, which again goes against the Islamic system, the Islamic Islamic principles. And then you see it with with exactly what we've been talking about in the the domestic economy. And this, the the hustle, it is it's it's a hustle in and of itself to talk about the side hustle and the grind culture and being a free agent and the sort of hobby job and the what what they call the what passion passion job or passion economy or what have you. And the the whole free agent concept and the, you know, if you if you're if you're what do they say?

If you do it if you're doing what you love, then you'll never work a day in your life. Right? So this is just a coping mechanism for basically what is a wage suppression strategy. You know? If you if you so called love what you do, then you'll accept less for doing it.

Right? If you frame your exploitation as self expression, then you become your own HR department processing your own grievances in favor of your employer before the grievances even arise. You should be grateful that you get to do what you love. Aren't you lucky? Aren't you lucky that you have all this freedom to not be able to to survive on a single wage?

Aren't you aren't you fortunate? Aren't you blessed to be able to not survive, by the wages of of a single job, and now you need to find all sorts of side hustles, all sorts of, part time jobs, other jobs, what have you. Aren't you fortunate that you get to do all of this work just to survive? I mean, it's it's it's very clear that this is the direction that they're going to make it even more intensified because the logic is the same. Like I said, the the logic hasn't changed.

The structural logic of how corporations work, how so called capitalism works has not changed. So there's no reason to expect it to reverse. And as long as you've got people convinced of the propaganda that that all they have to do is work a full time job, a regular job, a side hustle, try to figure out some kind of passive income, start a podcast. Right? No.

You don't you you don't need higher wages. You just need to start a podcast. You don't need, to have a livable wage, and a full time job with benefits. You don't need that. You need to start a podcast.

You need to become a content creator. You need to be a drop shipper. You need to work harder, because, you know, to to expect stability, economic financial stability in your life is unrealistic, and and we're we're living in the wilderness. And so it it's completely upon you. This is the this is and you and not just that, but you should be happy about that because now that this is liberty, this is freedom, and this is, you know, all of these opportunities are available to you to rent out your skills, rent out your labor, rent out your body, rent out your time twenty four hours a day, this is this is wonderful that all of these opportunities are granted to you.

I mean, long as your brain is accepting that, that rationale for your own insecurity and instability and precarity, excuse me, then obviously you're you're not going to, change the system at all. And as I said anyway, at the end of the day, the system is what it is because you are the way you are, as a as a so called civilization. Your moral foundations are such that you created the system the way that you did. And there's only one way for that system to progress because you have never been able to change the underlying foundations, of the, or the structural logic of that system because it's based on who you are as a people. So there's only one direction for it to go, and that's the direction that it is going.