ABSTRACT
Unemployment is not a natural phenomenon. No creatures in the wild are unemployed – you do not see any birds or animals lying idle. Nor are people in tribal or agricultural societies ever unemployed. In the Middle Ages mass unemployment was unheard of. There was simply too much to do: crops to be harvested; cloth to be woven; stone to be quarried, shaped and placed in construction. Today, in poorer parts of the world, in those remote corners untouched by so-called modern civilisation, you will not find anyone unemployed either. No. Unemployment is solely the creation of modern, industrial society. It is not natural. It is not even man-made. Unemployment is rich-man-made.
