Work is what has been lost most in this pandemic, even more than human beings, and we are on the verge of an economic collapse, which has not been seen in this American Continent.
But it is clear to all of us that we are not going to let ourselves die, we will have to draw blood from the crab if necessary. The candidates offer one million jobs and those on list 35, with a salary of 400 USD, which is the minimum salary of Correa's time. Lasso, fills his mouth and numerous banners, with another million, but does not say what the salary will be in those new jobs.
Although it is possible, but it seems impossible, Araúz, does not put figures on the number of jobs that it will create, because that can become a lie, as happened with the Moreno government, which offered 250,000 jobs per year and ended up leaving the highest unemployment in the history.
This unemployment forces us to review the educational system, which trained us to be employees, in the case of state universities, public employees, or in the case of private universities, wherever.
But work in the twentieth century became a form of torture, as it was before the industrial revolution came to the whole world, to a new form of torture, in which workers are almost machines, which now are easily replaceable by machines. With the unions it was tried to give them more stability and less humiliation or over-exploitation, but, finally, only the new jobs in computer science, it seems that they are those that want intelligent people, the others want submissive fools, even with an academic degree.
This unstoppable impersonation of machines by workers, which is moving large populations from the countryside to the city, or now from industry and companies to the streets, is giving way to the so-called informal, who are inventors of irregular commerce of all kinds, or of odd jobs, which is flooding our cities.
Already before it was visible with the Venezuelan migration through South America, which made us see people with a very good presence, selling cigarettes on street corners.
This pandemic has turned all Latin Americans into Venezuelans, Maduro can no longer be blamed for what is happening in Venezuela, because now the same thing is happening everywhere, especially in Latin America.
The international press used Cuba and Venezuela as an example to prevent people from voting for the so-called SXXI socialist candidates, or rejecting anyone who showed the slightest sympathy for these two rebellious countries, but now we are all in the same conditions. That of showing us Cuba and Nicaragua in ruins no longer amazes us, because in every corner people are suffering almost the same thing.
Emigration as an escape door from this drama is no longer as feasible as at the beginning of the century, when millions of Ecuadorians fled to Spain, Italy or the United States, now the doors are closed, migrants are not accepted, even from other developed countries , nationalisms, racism, xenophobia are all the rage and with Trump, children who arrive or are born in these developed countries were separated from their parents, to whom they were deported and children separated, when they were not delivery for adoption, they end up as prisoners indefinitely.
The xenophobia that began when the real estate crisis occurred, in which backpackers lost the opportunity to be individuals who worked 6 months and spent another 6 around the world enjoying pleasures. Today when they go on a trip, when they return there is an immigrant taking up his job, for less pay and twice as many hours. The time of backpackers is over and now the thing is that if they leave their country, as poverty is overwhelmed, someone will replace them and this irritates them, that is why they are heard shouting at white supremacists, THEY ARE REPLACING US! , as a rallying cry to attack blacks, Muslims and Latinos.
The fact that they do not let us enter and work in developed countries is a bad thing and also a good thing, because the people of Latin America have to reinvent a new relationship between us, not to go back to being cheap labor, or cheap countries, within or outside the continent and not in each country, or suppliers of low-cost raw materials.
The pandemic may make us better protectors of our children, our families, our ancestral cultures and our nature.
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