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Been there, done that. What’s the solution? If you know, please tell.
No cure. But no skin-in-game consequences ~ subsidy ~ assures more, not less, of it.
Yeah me too. First little bit of money you give them, they are off putting on a drunk or whatnot. Been that way for a long time, but way worse now. Why you better treat workers that will show up like gold, because there aren’t many that will do that. I reckon the solution is for the system to go tits up so folk will have less choices but to work. That or loot or steal, but we have lots of that too already. Looks more like mad max everyday.
Ten years of tree crew work in my youth. Me and the boys got HAMMERED every night after work. And then we came to work each morning, not even hung over yet, but still drunk!!! Started sweating by eight, and by nine we felt right as rain. Nobody missed work.
The girls would ask us how we all guzzled so much beer and never got fat. I said — come to work with us and I’ll show you.
The pussification of America is COMPLETE!!!
I walked 10 miles through 3 feet of snow, uphill (both ways) to get to school.
Barefoot.
Old (gasp!) Bill Cosby routine.
Me too. ROFLMAO!
i did that just to buy cigarettes…..
Been there done that in the military. Paid for it later in life in spades. Drinking to excess is considered a sin for a good reason.
Don’t get me wrong, I am a hypocrite. A guest pastor recently said we all are to a degree, which is true. You can’t see all your own blind spots.
The Lord Himself is the only reason I stopped drinking like that. Health issues alone would never have been enough to stop me. Way too stubborn.
And I know all about hypocrisy, Ken. I’m a master-level hypocrite!!!
(…not a boast, but a confession…)
when I was young about 4 decades ago as a welder I used to do that often, and remember barfing in my hood about 40 feet high above a couple engineers………jobs were plenty back then too.
Not complete, i’m still standing.
If i was younger and needed that job, I’d be there, oh yeah, i recall framing track houses in phoenix summers, once upon a time. Manual labor, keeps you healthy.
Unlike most of you judgy bitches, I asked people why they are lying flat, quit quitting or letting it rot.
Responses are why should I work hard? I say family. Responses from men are what family? I ask what do you mean? They say if you get married and have children your wife divorces you takes all of your money and your children. You end a thousand times worse than staying single and you still have no family.
Women in their 20s say career. They then ride the cock carousel and marry some clueless desperate dude after they hit 30.
Men are just working enough to survive and have some fun before they expire.
And it has been a pretty damned good plan for the last 45 years. Some of us saw the scam early on.
I think most of us are trying to help rather than be judgy, unless we are being judgy which should be obvious.
I agree with all you said. I wish I was raised to value family, so that I could have had one. I worked all my life until war wounds brought me low, but then I picked myself up and worked hard in school and give that up but I am getting better at working hard to build something of my own.
I think there is nothing more motivating than working for family at my age, but I wish I believed it when I was younger. I also regret that I did not respect myself enough to work for just me.
Yeah. That poor guy in the vid looks like he is on the verge of tears.
But the problem is that no matter what you pay a person, he still falls behind.
Until the system changes so that hard work will get you ahead, this will continue.
Spread the gospel. That is the solution. God did not sacrifice the Son for this.
“…God did not sacrifice the Son for this…”
In some ways He did. He knew this was coming and He knew it was the final phase in proving what becomes of a world which turns its back to God.
Major lessons are about to be learned by many.
That sounds true to me.
That’s it right there. God, the Bible, and prayer got kicked out of government schools in the early 60’s and Christian parents didn’t raise hell about it. They lost their first love. The great Commission is to go into all the world and make disciples, but Christians stopped caring whether or not anyone went to else hell. The “I got mine” attitude won out. When people no longer strive to live according to the Scriptures this is what we get.
darn it, can’t edit. It’s supposed to say whether or not anyone else goes to hell.
It’s a good comment either way, Vigilant. That wasn’t difficult to self edit.
Cut off all fucking free shit, unemployment, food stamps etc, except for poor unmarried moms.
Young unmarried moms have proliferated due to welfare and the acceptance of casual sex without marriage.
Cut off free shit for big pHARMa, big agriculture, big education, Raytheon and Goldman Sachs, while yer at it.
You know why?? Because your nation is full of pussies. And that’s putting it nicely.
No, not just that – and that didn’t come out of nowhere, either. I don’t try hard like I used to to, because of how impossible it’s become for so many reasons. You give me back my country, and I’ll go back to humping harder, even now, in my early sixties.
End the Federal Reserve, the IRS, the war machine, the million alphabet fed agencies, end welfare so everyone has to work and it’s safe and quiet at night, mail the illegals back, bring back all the manufacturing back that’s gone (and fuck the unions – they didn’t help, they hurt. I was in ’em).
No more money manipulation – make it so a guy can pay for a family while she stays home, rents and/or mortgages/home prices reflect reality, demand schools educate, reopen loony bins, relegalize arrest for violent and life-quality crimes, erase higher ed subsidies and have young men apprentice for all of the trades, instead. End H1-B visa, etc.
Get rid of feminazism and easy divorce, etc. Hire intelligent, fit men to be cops – they should be your neighbors, invested in the town. They should coach your kid’s Little League, and you should build their porch. You know what else. Arrest perverts messing with kids’ minds sexually, and all those other criminal freaks.
This shit is unworkable:
https://wtf1971.com/
Good point. But as far as trying hard like you used to…to me that’s victim mentality.
I’ve never worked harder in my life until now where I can’t depend on someone else giving me a steady paycheck, regardless of the quality of work I give. If I don’t give my best quality work possible, then I’m out of work. And, for now, I only accept getting paid in cash….for as long as cash is still good.
I agree with most of what you said, but no one has to give up working. Just figure out ways to do it outside the system. It’s the ONLY way at this point. You’re not getting your country back. Plus, if we’re being honest, no one owes you anything. Harsh truth.
@Anon
Agree with all of this.
I’m in my mid-30s and I’m not doing a fucking thing extra. My 20s were wasted because of the 2008 crash, Obamacare fucking over wages, 0% interest rates, and inflation of everything. I’ll never get back that decade that was suppose to be used to establish myself as an young adult and create early financial stability. I’m not lifting a finger until this entire corrupt establishment collapses. I’d rather be homeless, with missing teeth, and pissing in the woods before I waste more of my energy into this system.
Have to do like Ms. Adams said and find a way to work for yourself. Not working at all comes with dire mental, psychological and spiritual penalties. Financial penalties don’t even make the list of what’s most important.
Nope. Not doing a fucking thing extra.
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Belay my last.
Waste of digital ink.
Total waste of digital ink. What’s scary is this is exactly the female libtard mentality that’s in the schools teaching the youth today.
so you become a Gimme Dat? if your not working, SOMEONE has to support your ass. Someone Working has to.
You can’t even spell “you’re” and you’re lecturing others about how to make it. Suck a dick.
“You can’t even spell “you’re”…
If Grammar, Spelling, and Syntax are ALL You’ve got?
But yet U can read it well enough ta respond?
Go ahead, Shoot Yourself in Your OTHER Foot…
Anyone notice that what we’re discussing is the same thing that happened in the USSR?
“They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.”
If you can’t get ahead by working, you’ll stop working.
The US is the most successful communist* society, but even we are swirling the drain.
*Gov’t Control of Education
Gov’t Control of Finance
Gov’t Control of Healthcare
Gov’t Control of Food Distribution
Gov’t Control of Media
Progressive Taxation (from each according to his ability)
Welfare (to each according to her need)
And so on…
then go hungry.
Me, I’m in my 60’s working as much and as hard as I ever have since beginning full-time work at age 17. If I don’t work, my wife and child don’t eat or have a roof over their heads. I happen to like eating and sleeping under a roof also.
The world has always been tough. You have to be tough
“My 20s were wasted because of the 2008 crash.”
I don’t know about you, but I lived my 20s in blissful ignorance of anything going on around me other than my friends and where we are going out tonight. I couldn’t care less about the stock market or the economy. I had no car, biked everywhere and pretty much lived on $700 a month, with roommates in crappy apartments. It was AWESOME!
Now, if you were talking about your 30s, I would understand.
Must’ve been nice. What decade was that? I didn’t have the luxury of blissful boomer ignorance in my youth. I actually had to fucking pay attention to current events to not end up chronically homeless or unemployed. Even paying attention I still ended up spending my 20s in poverty and living on other people’s couches.
Stephanie…I like you because you don’t take shit from people and that’s a rare trait. However, I’m not a fan of the victim mentality.
Is there anything at all you can do on your own without giving up your principles & becoming loyal to the system? Anything at all? It doesn’t seem like you need to make a certain amount of money at this point to make ends meet, so thinking you could be open to a lot of options.
Photography (weddings, etc), baking/cooking (have neighbor that makes their own salsa and sells it at Farmer’s markets – and does pretty well), any skill you have that you can teach others and get paid for it? I could keep going with ideas, but not sure you’ll take this well.
Tell me what’s wrong with this.
It’s not “victim mentally” you buzzword addicted twatwaffle. It’s called pissed off mentality. I WANT MY FUCKING DECADE OF LOST PRODUCTIVITY BACK.
PLUS INTEREST.
Lol, ok. You’re not getting it back. Life sucks, deal with it. No one gets out without struggle.
Piss off cuntburger. I’m not interested in your “life’s not fair” cliches.
The worst position you could put me in is to have to agree with Llpoh about you.
Oh, life’s not fair.
Agree with him all you want. I don’t fucking care what he thinks either. Would you like me to dazzle you with more of my wisdom so you can be besties with him sooner?
😂 Oh hell no. No matter how pissed you are, you can’t push me that far.
Well SS, based on your attitude, I think I have figured out why your life was so shitty.
BaSeD oN yOuR aTtItUdE…
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That other Anonymous says your life is shitty because you don’t accept the system that rapes you. What a dope he (or she) is. There’s no limit to the human capacity for self-deception, is there?
That’s not “struggle” – that’s criminality. The young lady’s been a victim of theft -by a system of men with guns, badges, and cages, approved and supported by millions of citizen slaves – so they’re accessories to her violation. Everyone who supports the state theft system is guilty of complicity in robbing the Stephanie.
ABOLISH THE STATE.
oi, i’ve learned a new word today, “TWATWAFFLE” Can’t wait ta find somebody ta use it on!
Damn! I wish I’d gotten in this sub-thread sooner. That’s what comes a havin a job and not bein able ta sit on my ass and read TBP everyday!
LOL. Yeah, no victim mentality there at all…..
Whaaaaaaaa!
FFS, I want to hear the dipshit opinions of an Anon as much as I want to see Admin create an TBP OnlyFans page.
And I suspect many here feel the same about cunts like you.
Whaaaaaa! some more.
Aw, your witty repartee must have all the bitches throwing their panties at you.
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That is the best you have? Lame.
Do you throw them at me? No? then not all the bitches.
I lost a good portion of the labor of my 30s to the crash. I was foolish and the market was corrupt.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Abolishing the state – the system that did this – is a very big candle. Not going along with it – opting out by doing as little as possible to feed the squid, the bad wolf – IS lighting a candle. Refuse. Resist. Deny sustenance to the steamroller running us over. We are its fuel, after all.
Teeth, did you mention teeth??? Nevermind.
Soft spot (out damn spot) for berserkers that I have – having once been one myself (yeah, it’s like addiction: once a ‘serker, always a ‘serker … it’s still in there) – & at risk of “wasting digital ink” (impossible: it’s all exercise) – & without resorting to familiar shorthands that might be construed, or misconstrued, as clichés I’ll borrow from the munchkin Perot: can you hear that sucking sound?
I know you can hear it. Because I can hear your DAC playing it back … volume knob twisted to 11.
And I know that you don’t know the source of the noise. The direction of the shot. Because you trust your immediate senses a little too much – which is all the acoustical engineers need to see to it that you never see it, let alone hear it, coming (you only believe you do).
Your perspective is too close in, too tight. Your elevation is too low. You take certain things for granted that were given to you so that you would take them for granted. But those things that were given to comfort & structure & splint & course “your” path forward were lies.
Not “boomer” lies. Tho that “cohort” (just another cliché) was born into that same bloody bathwater, too. Lather, rinse, repeat.
The lies are systemic. Systemic like the racialists can only wet dream & foam at the mouth nightmare that their schtick is systemic. So systemic that the better term is fundamental.
People lie. That is this species primary attribute. That is the primary force that led to language. Because people, pent up, had to let the lies out, else pop & explode. People are all about exorcising … themselves.
Blaming a thing for being what it is is useless. Is-ness is no problem to be solved. Except to crazy people. Or stupid people. Or people too close in, too tight, too low.
Justice? What a swell dream that is. Well, same thing. Exactly the same thing. Like another munchkin said, paraphrasing, “if you’ve come to Westeros for justice, you’ve come to the wrong place.”
The leopard’s spots & the tiger’s stripes & the human’s deceit are under no authority, including the one called/sold “justice.”
Failure to accept reality is self-deception. Those are the fertile loam-lies beneath & out of which all the other lies grow like weeds.
This is the truth. It doesn’t set anybody free. It sets many, most, freak. Because the truth that goes along with it is that you are on your own. You always were. You always will be.
As such, the best of all possible PainGlosses is to get out of the way. Starting with mentally/psychologically.
That not-building-in-the-floodplain includes, if you manage-happen to find a good second, “two’s company, three’s a corruption (not a cliché) … & 300 million (etc), well, that’s hell.
And each one is in it. Not just you. Each one has his/her “sure, bro” brochure stories where the “social contract” or whatever turned out to be lies. Lies that stole away time & all the lesser resources too, or even life itself.
So that’s it. One does not solve the rain/reign. One merely tries to stay dry. And does not take emulating pisses in others’ ears & lies, calling it rain.
But pissing in the woods is fine. ☻(Until 3’s a corruption joins you there. Piss: the smell of big cities.)
That chart is meaningless.
No carpenter today is working two and half times more/harder/longer/efficiently than in 1971.
Productivity in computing? Perhaps, in factories, maybe, but it isn’t the worker turning out more, it’s the technology speeding the process and people behind those things aren’t workers in the conventional sense, but more minders of tech, like a jockey on a horse.
Work, real work like baling hay, repairing down power lines in a snow storm, installing plumbing or HVAC, fishing on a trawler probably makes up only a tiny percentage of that graph data.
We are in trouble, anyone with any sense can see it, but most are either too wedded to the current system, or too indebted to remove themselves even if they wanted to.
The only way to make it through to the other side of this collapse is the preservation of tradition, the development and daily use of general life skills, and the bonds of kith and kin.
Build the new world even as the old one comes to an end.
It’s not meaningless. It is an average over the whole GDP. Obviously, different things are different. The money mafia must be dismantled, along with the crony-nanny-regulatory-tax -redistributionist-warfare-welfare apparatus that is .gov.
Full in-fiat-i-cide. Very meaningful when the babe is thrown out with the amniotic fluid. So to speak.
One might even say defenestrated and then summarily closed.
That would have sounded like a pipe dream to me a few years ago, but here I am doing it myself, HSF. It is doable.
Why kill yourself overworking yourself in this fascist, socialist economy? If you don’t have your health you don’t have anything.
Saint Peter don’t ya call me
‘Cause I can’t go
I owe my soul
To the Sachs of Gold (-man, that is . . . )
One of the stupidest charts ever created. Say you have a business with two employees. You buy this whizz bang machine that can do the work of one of them. You let one go, and keep the other. You have had a 100% productivity increase. Should you then pay the other 100% more so that his or her wages keep up with productivity?
Also, that chart doesn’t show cost of goods versus wages. Real cost of goods in general have plummeted relative to real wages. Why? Productivity. Products are made for less and less. Ie they get cheaper.
Another thing – what happened around 1948 to 1972? The US came out of WW2 virtually unscathed. It was the greatest boom in US history because there was no competition. Companies were held to ransom by unions, the cost of which continue even today. And in 1972, competition resumed.
The system has gladly made itself available to anyone willing to LIE, in writing, and thereby adhere themselves to the government teat. There is LOTS of money to be had in such ways. Complete compromise is all that’s required.
Have a feeling that there’s more than just that missing from this story. Have a feeling some of the employees he’s talking about might have a different take on his story. Looks like this guy is gonna hafta go to work for someone else if he can’t figure out how to keep employees satisfied.
When he does go to work for someone else, give it six months till he’s on tiktok or twitter bitching about how he can’t make ends meet with what they pay, and how every day there are new and exciting job requirements unilaterally added ex post facto to his employment “agreement”.
From what I understand construction work is spotty right now. He probably can’t offer consistent work to these guys. What’s the point of being loyal to an employer who treats you as a freelancer? That $15-40 per hour ain’t worth shit if it only lets you survive for a couple weeks before you have to go begging someone else for another job. That’s assuming this guy is even offering full time work with the option of overtime.
This has got to be the worst time to build a house, unless you can do it yourself. Construction material is hard to find, workers just as much.
My bet is that in 50 years, people will avoid buying houses that were built in the 2020s due to poor workmanship and materials.
Avoid pretty much anything made this century.
Everyone I know who bought a new home, is having the defects corrected.
Everyone I know with a new vehicle, is having the defects corrected.
Some people I know are on their second and even third set of appliances this century.
My washing machine is almost 60yo. Replaced the pump about a decade ago.
My tractor is also near 60yo. Still works fine while my neighbour is still waiting for the JD dealership to find the parts to fix his 2yo tractor.
I want a time machine. Just send be back to 1968.
Yeah. To go in the garage next to my flying car that’s also not there. ☻
The washing machine that we bought together with this house 9 years ago is still going strong, darn it. I am hoping that it breaks any day now so I can do what girls do best: buy shit. It looks like it is about 40 years old. I bet I am out of luck until we sell this house.
As far as houses go, what decade would you reckon was a good home building one? The 1940s/50s?
Pre depression or 70’s and 80’s. At least in the midwest. Can’t speak for other area’s.
‘Age’ of home is meaningless. It is SOLELY contingent on WHO built it.
“A hundred Years from Now, They May NOT know My Name. BUT, They WILL KNOW My Work. Good Enough for Me”
From a Tech Book i read when i was VERY young.
Words to Work AND Live by. Indeed. And in Action.
He suggests that he’s offered $25/hr and even $40/hr.
The latter is obvious hyperbole and the first is certainly bullshit as well.
Part time, irregular piece work at $15/hr cannot sustain anyone.
His former employees are out looking for work with a consistent schedule and pay that can allow them to pay rent and keep the lights on — and they may not be able to find it.
Most here seem to assume that workers are getting on welfare or disability. Some may, but not most. That may change however.
People seem to either conveniently forget the Cloward Piven strategy, or never understood it. This isn’t about laziness, it’s about utilizing individuals’ rational economic self interest to destroy the economy and the nation.
yes, starting at $15 tells you a bit about what is going on.
But I think the big problem is usury.
Credit card rates of 28%?
Even setting that aside, every dollar is constantly eaten away by some level of usury, and that does not include inflation.
That guy’s customer is paying usury on his home. That guy himself is paying usury on his truck and tools. His insurance company is paying usury on their payroll loans that get rolled over.
It just goes on and on. What amount of interest does anyone pay out of his paycheck? Car loans, mortgage, credit cards, usury on payments like car, medical, homeowner, rental, liability, disability insurances and so on? (All insurance is typically due in full the first day of coverage, but is converted to monthly payments with a financing fee.)
So take all that usury, and figure out that a person’s employer has to pay enough for him to cover his living and all the usury baked into it. Then take that company and figure it has to charge enough to pay all the expenses of its employees plus all of their accumulated usury, and it has to pay its own usury for property, plant, equipment, payroll, etc. and it has to charge enough for its products to be able to pay for all the foregoing, which folds another level of usury onto the cost its customer’s pay.
When usury has infected an economy, no matter how small the rate, it compounds so quickly and touches ever transaction that it cannot be escaped.
Debt is bad, but mostly because usury never, ever ends, and it affects you massively, even those of you who are debt free.
I have been wondering about that. It is global, too. At the coffee cart at Dublin airport, a sign said “As is the case everywhere, we have a hard time finding employees to serve you, so please be kind to those that showed up for work.” The ice cream shop guy in Germany said that he has always had a hard time to find wait staff, but now he notices that every single business is looking to hire. At the amusement park, half of the rides were closed because they had no employees.
It cannot be all the welfare state, can it? That everyone is more comfortable with government handouts than trying to work and earn more than that? In every country all at the same time? Or are they all too disabled or too dead from the jab to work? That’s not my experience in my circles. There are complaints of deep vein thromboses, chronic jab-injection site pain etc., but everybody is still actually working.
I am currently reading the book “Nickled and dimed”. Maybe it will give me insight. It reminds me of my first job at the sausage factory in Germany, where the glass jars and the sausages come by on conveyor belts and you have to grab them and put them in jars, complete with slaps on your bum by your supervisor if you were pretty. Ah, the good old days. All of my coworkers were head scarved Turkish women who had been doing this job for decades and I wondered how their brains were still functioning. All for $5 per hour and for a 6 week time period in summer as a high schooler, after which I became a vegetarian for a month because I couldn’t stand the sausage smell any more.
I don’t want to sound like a Marxist, but I don’t think the prevalence of multi-billionaires does much to instill confidence into the value of a laborers work.
Fuck you abby.
Why work for pussy when the pussy just destroys you.
You are nothing but a wolf in sheeps clothing defending the shitty women of the world.
Oh, poor baby. Did a woman hurt your feelings? Do you need to cry on my shoulder? My guess is it was multiple women many times over & over.
I had no idea there were so many creatures of such WEAK character paddling around among us!!!
I was under the impression that most here had been refined by life’s HARD FIRE!!!
The kind of weakness on display here on this comment board is a surprise to me.
Keep your sword unsheathed, Abigail. I think some more sorry sack of shit slaughter is in store!!!
“…WAAAAAAAAAAA!!! It’s not FAIRRRRRRR!!! I’m OWED!!!…”
I catch any Texans bellyaching like this, and I’ll drag em to our Austin Party IN THAT DAY!!!
Judgmental? You’re goddamn right.
Disgraceful.
Exactly. The beta males & female libtard entitlement thinking you see here is what’s in the schools and all the liberal states…coming closer to a town near you. Now they come here to this site and try to spread their disease. Sad.
Berserker-possession in the house tonite. I wonder, as a good buy & hold accountant probably would too, what kind of discount could be negotiated for two exorcisms. Ya’ll could split the cost of getting those motorized swivels out of your necks. And tell that ol’ demon “no more pea soup for you!”
The walter mitty thing, I’m not sure what gets that out.
damned spot.
Like next door to me, momma claims disability for being an obese cow at 55, gets hud paid house and a monthly check. 35ish daughter claims to take care of her and gets another state check along with wic program, etc for her bastard daughter. Baby daddy lives with them and spends his money on booze,cigs, and meth. Two more grandkids in late 20’s, one with girlfrind and another bastard kid on wic,etc live with them. Free shit army on display.
Sounds like a platoon of regular troops.
Nice thing is that when the lights go out, every person like you described will last no longer than two weeks.
I’ve been wondering that myself. Have that any people died because of the clot shot?… anecdotally in my little world, I can’t see it. Are they all on the dole?
I feel very sorry for this man’s dilemma. Today I went into our local grocery. It’s a multistate chain with scores of outlets. The fish/seafood section was shut down and dark. Not enough people willing to work. This ain’t gonna end well.
Lots of places around here are closed or limited hours because they can’t find workers. Supply chain shortages I’m sure is also an issue.
Inflation.
As inflation continues to get worse, at some point you may “get it” that this isn’t a sudden and unexplainable pandemic of lazy.
Yup. Not recent at all.
Yes. I have noticed abnormally massive employee turnover at the local grocery store.
Inflation.
The problem is there are many willing to loot.
The ranch where my horse lives says the same thing this man says. They can’t find workers. And teenagers won’t work there because the work is too hard & they think the pay is too low.
Another party of the first part part, not to beat the dead horse:
Probably so. The pill is not good for anyone.
Red, blue, or black?
Funny. I was talking pink. But surely don’t want black…you won’t even be able to get out of bed in the mornings – not good for anyone.
Maybe.
Black can be quite slimming, tho, you know? ☻
(Or maybe atmospheres of pressure-girdling can be quite slimming.)
As in motivating.
Calories, empty, full, or in between might be where a given nervous sysetm/personality finds them.
Including a given testoic’s testockpile, of course. That has some to do with the rise & shine. Or the sink & rise & shine.
This reminds me. So just ordered Nestor’s book about free divers. You may recall.
Sunlit blue, dive down ~ or the weight of your own organism pulls you down ~ dark. Solitude. Weight. Pressure. Discomfort. Pain. Revelation. Creativity. Strength. Truth.
Or significantly more truth than is accessible to the average extrovampire … whose pains teach the helplessness, & how to leaven-pass it around (like the bread fedres has all passing around).
“I’ll scratch your back, & bite into your neck, if you scratch mine.”
But anger. That can be good star-fuel-stuff, too.
Of course, the way out is through. It’s the only way out.
40 years in the desert or 400 feet down into the desert’s perfect disguise, it’s you. Just you. (Even if you are down there, or out there, in a school of your best extrovampire pals.)
Just looked. There is blue licorice. But I like red. And black.
“Breathe deep the gathering gloom, Watch lights fade from every room … “ Late Lament’s the best part of Nights in White Satin. Black satin bedsheets might be preferable, tho, if satin’s even desirable, & blackout curtains are even better.
He drowned?? at 22??
I’d rather have the red licorice than black.
I do remember you mentioning Nestor’s book. Hope you didn’t order it from a bunch of blue-pillers. 🙂 Let me know how it is when you’re done reading.
The causes are legion. The Enemy doesn’t miss a trick. It’s all too subtle and too complicated to be the work of mere human agency and intelligence.
Out in the tail is where the best are – & the worst too. Some agents got more agency, & less scruples, than others. Than most others. Is how the tail wags the beast. I’ve crossed those paths: all too human.
And just because it seems so seamless doesn’t mean it was conceived whole. Capitalizing on what comes, the increasingly emerging emergencies, is a specialty of these specialists. Like counterpunching. The other guys move is taken & lent back @ stiff interest. Like fedres.
Tail?
You know – bell curve.
GREAT SCOTT!!! That comment actually made sense to me!!!
Have I been here too long?
Good points. It’s the snowball to hell.
I think those cartoons of the devil and the angel on the shoulder whispering in each ear were made to make people question the validity of such phenomena that’s generally not so literal.
Did not read article. Only clicked on it for the photo.
For the record, I don’t believe any man with actual testosterone in his body would be giving samples to doctors. Maybe if you’re unconscious on gurney covered in blood, but as a routine test?
That’s gay, but not in a good way.
There hasn’t been a good gay since gay meant HAPPY!!!
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Well, some records are LP’s. Others are 45’s with just one lone song on ‘em. “On a long & lonesome highway, east of Omaha You can listen to the engine moanin’ out its one-note song …”
Or, you ain’t gonna be any kinda gay if that hormone swings too low, sweet chariot.
And when that whistlin’ overhand right was got round to, the counterpunchers, via their medicomafia corner-pimps threw their own punches-penstrokes: “Schedule III controlled substance.”
Because they love ya man. Right? Can’t let ya hurt yourself with topping off the manjuice tank.
What?
Most times you can’t hear ’em talk
Other times you can
All the same old cliches
“Is that a woman or a man?”
And you always seem outnumbered
You don’t dare make a stand
At the end of day, it don’t matter, people believe what they wanna believe. In the meantime, the big T is controlled by the largest collection of BetaBoyz. Fuk ’em.
Is this true?
How dare any potential employee decide for themselves that the pay is too low.
The pay is what the employer says it is and you WILL work as long as the employer says for that pay or else … or else …
…. or else I’ll call you lazy.
What qualities truth? None. Cue them wise elephant phrenologists from Industan (the JG Saxe poem).
But if you lens out, projecting yourself into the elephantine Big Empty, & the picture worth a single word, “hard,” “comes back,” it’s an Opposite George inversion. You be soft.
Is it hard out there? Soft? Or … nuthin’? Cue that Slip Solipsisming away song by Paul Simon.
What?
The shadows are real, man. They are truth, indeed they are, unless you get too close to the fire and get burned. Then is a It’s gonna be a bright, bright sunshiny day. Until it’s not.
No illegals to hire? What a shame.
People here be “Stop feeding the beast! Withdraw your productivity! Pay as less taxes as possible!”. Then people there go and do just that, and you call them pussies for it. LOL!
There’s a big difference between not feeding the beast and sucking on it’s teat. The social safety net is no longer a net. It’s been transformed, slowly, into a hammock, by pussies and for pussies. That’s the biggest underlying problem. Anon’s reply above pretty much nails it. Capice?
Are you collecting S.S. yet?
I am. Fuck it. It’s stolen, and it’ll be over soon. When these bitches go away and I can go work in a factory again for enough to eat and live indoors and get new shoes and buy the Levi’s I make in America for $13.99 new, instead of $70 or $100 used, I’ll go back to work until I’m senile – which, given my genes and diet and vitamins, etc., may not be for another quarter-century or more.
Give me my fucking country back, you .gov-believing, voting sucker-slaves.
“If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.” ― Lysander Spooner
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2095916-no-treason-the-constitution-of-no-authority
Which is exactly how most governments came about through history. The rest came about to protect against the first.
Bullshit. Who polices the police who police the police? What a sucker.
Oh, holy s4!t. Guaranteed two people who downvoted me upvoted you.
If you take SS for the reasons you (anonymous) stated (i.e., I know it’s stolen, but the whole shitshow’s about to collapse) and you’re aware of it, that’s fine by me.
OTOH, if you bitch about a social safety hammock built by and for pussies, and then jump in that same hammock; then you’re just a hypocritical p.o.s.
But don’t confuse welfare for SS. If you can get section 8 housing, food stamps, $ for babies, $ for prescriptions, etc etc. without lifting a finger, compared to busting your ass for min wage, have to pay for your own gas, groceries, roof over your head, etc. and have the same standard of living, who should be blamed? The pussies who made it so or the pussies sucking on the teat? How about both?
Not eligible for SS. and In 5-15 years I might get get back – maybe – 10 cents on every dollar I “contributed” to the “Canada Pension Plan” – really just another tax. Just like SS, it will be bankrupt by 2035
Canada used to send out estimates of your approximate monthly benefits from Canada Pension Plan once you claim it.
My last one was at least 2 decades ago, $165. They stopped sending them after that.
That might pay the electrical bill.
It is indeed to LOL.
Awareness of the signs of the times, and belief in fourth turnings, and criticisms of the ravages of banksters or democrats or joos or whatever, can apparently be turned on and off depending upon how much virtue signalling one wants to do about how hard things were back when I was … fill in the blank.
You’ve taken out the personal responsibility angle. Was there an agreement to show up for work?
Big difference from having the balls to close up shop completely letting everyone know your reasoning. That contractor wasn’t Twitter, he’s just a home remodeler trying to support a family.
I need to know all the facts of the case before I pass judgement.
Amen. I never understood how people could ignore that. I think that’s the number one complaint here in the old South is that those values have eroded, but they look around like they don’t know how it happened. It boggles.
I guess he should have worked harder and saved more.
I worked some construction jobs and home improvement jobs in my teens and 20s .Most companies were unscrupulous. Would short me hours etc . No benefits and if you got hurt oh well.Not to mention the alcohol and drug abuse rampant .
As I said above, there’s likely a whole lot more to this story that this guy isn’t telling.
That is why all the houses are being built by Mexicans. They will work and they will show up. Manual labor is just not in the DNA of today’s kids and I blame their parents who did not teach them to work when they were young.
Why would anybody bust their ass working manual labor for employers that aren’t loyal? What’s missing from your assumption is the fact they hire illegals so they don’t have to compensate them when their bodies start to wear out from all that manual labor. You’d have to be a moron to sacrifice your body doing manual labor for someone else. You aren’t born with unlimited cartilage and there’s no company pension waiting at the end of the rainbow.
The answer to this is abolition of the state and adoption of Hans Hermann Hoppe’s private property society, with shared values and a true free market – with unimpeded price discovery and full individual agency and responsibility for a society upheld by conscientious, enlightened self-interest.
Even after they run outta redheaded stepchildren that one will never be adopted. Which is a trick answer, since that kid has never even been born.
What?
Yes. Exactly. Plus Unicorns shitting Rainbows!
I have a solution to the lack of workers problem. Stop all illegal immigration and deport all 50million or however many there are. Then cut off all govt aid to able bodied people. If they won’t work, they can be hungry.
Just like Indians in the tech industry. Jus’ doin’ jobs ‘Murikans won’t do.
For the price ‘Murikans won’t accept.
That is not true. Americans will do the work, but the Indians got their foot in the door because they would work for less. Now they are in a position to hire and… hmm, who will they hire?… oh yeah, their friends and relatives.
I say kick them out also. End all H1B visas.
Desiderata: Original Text
This is the original text from the book where Desiderata was first published.
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
by Max Ehrmann ©1927
I FEEL for You Brother! MANY Grown-Ass MEN can’t even read a tape measure. Do Not know the DIFFERENCE ‘twixt LEVEL and PLUMB, Etc. It Matters not, whether Ya call it The Pythagorean Theorem, OR the 3, 4, 5 Rule. Don’t KNOW that. Either. And SURE AS HELL!…
“Ain’t wastin’ THAT kinda $ on a kakulater” (Construction Master Pro™). You should get one. Once You Learn HOW ta use It? Exponential improvement, Precision-wise.
Stick it out, Branch out. You CAN NOT Know/Aquire too many skills. Or Tools.
ANYONE tells ya “That’s Too Much Information”, Trade/Profession/Other Related?
ABSOLUTELY NO SUCH THING.
Keep ALL Your ‘Tools’. BUY More. DO NOT buy ‘Cheap’. 90% of ANY task is the PROPER Tool. The other 10% is knowing/Learning HOW to use them to obtain PROFESSIONAL Results.
‘Specialize’ In Your Trade/Vocation. REAL Crown Moulding, Trim work, Cabinetry, Flooring, Doors/Windows Etc. AND, except for the Doors/Windows, the Structure is USUALLY Heated/Cooled at that juncture. ‘Product’ SHOULD be ‘acclimated’ to actual conditions, BEFORE Installation.
In Essence, become an army of One.
That said, 2 people working TOGETHER on ANY task can obtain BETTER Quality, in much LESS time, than working Separately, NO MATTER THE TASK, And LAUGH. A Lot! In REALITY, ONLY One of the 2 of You has to ACTUALLY ‘KNOW’ the task at Hand. An Extra set of hands is worth their Pay. (DO NOT ‘offer’ a wage, MAKE them assign a ‘Value’ to Themselves. And PROVE It). ONE WEEK ‘Trial’ period. TEACH the ‘Good Ones’.
Admittedly, Extremely Hard to find a young’n w/potential…Rare as Hen’s Teeth.
There are PLENTY of Us out here, In ANY Trade Ya can think of. WE ALL pull together “For The Common Good” When the $$$$ is right. Work for EACH OTHER @ ‘Cost’. and…’FREE!’ Help!
You’ll find out SOON Enough who is ‘Worth It’. Fool Me once? Shame on YOU!
Fool Me 2x? One of ‘You’, MAYBE both. There WILL BE Blood. No Weapons. At that point, anyhow. (Some are Slow Learners).
Ya Look kinda young, comparatively speaking. LOOK for ‘Others’ who FEEL the same. When they are Sober/Straight. Could become the GC, IF You find the RIGHT group of GUYS.
NOT gonna tell you what i do, one man show. It’s
A fairly lucrative RacketSafety related, primarily ‘Utility Required’.Meet TONS of GREAT People. Some of them Exceptional in various arenas.
Good Luck!
This was performed by Leonard Nimoy on his album, The Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy. It resonated with me even at that early age.
It’s why HSF’s three word message to 18 year old self was the best:
DO YOUR BEST.
It’s also the only lesson in our homeschool curriculum. Even if it means beating the final boss in Splatoon 3 (which would not be my priority, but there you have it).
Svarga
Do your best. For who?
I’d say for your own enjoyment of the simple knowledge of a job well done.
Like the fridge I cleaned out today. Makes me happy every time I open it now. No praise needed from anybody.
Splatoon 3? Sounds kinky. Tell me more.
Stay with Abigail for kinky 😉
Um, no. Not available.
I thought CC was your guy?
He is. That’s why I said “not available”. We’re about to celebrate our 1 week anniversary. 🙂
I’ll tell you one thing…sitting on yer ass cryin’ like a bitch ain’t puttin’ no drywall on the timber! You might wanna learn how to pull your own wire and lay your own pipe while you’re at it.
I’m wondering why there’s no subfloor applied to the deck prior to exterior wall construction? The interior walls are then framed after that.
I’m sure he’ll blame that on the workers!
Last two emloyees wrecked a company pickup in early 2010. Fired on the spot and drunk, DUI ensued, almost lost insurance. They then asked NC Unemployment Sceurity Comm. for vacation pay due later in the year. NC disagreed, so they sued me personally. And lost. Didn’t bother to countersue, as you can’t get blood from a rock.
Zero employees since then. If I wrote an e-book , it’d be about how to run a biz with zero employees like I’ve done since 2010.
Yep, no employees was my solution too. Going back to the late ’80s.
Sumployees & simployees have been common trouble for a long time. I started noticing them in the 70’s. They got a much bigger club nowadays.
if this article had been about how we need more immigrants b/c americans will not work,there would have been many comments disagreeing w/the writer of the article —
anytime we talk immigration reform we need to talk fsa reform in the same conversation–
This is what happens when wages don’t keep up with inflation.
Do wages need to double to make work worth what it used to be? Probably. Maybe more than double.
High inflation creates chaos. It will take years for things to return to equalibrium.
Its not just wages not keeping up with inflation – its the taxes on top of it. I’ve been working for 45 years in one form or another and never have I gotten ahead, even once I received a professional degree. Wages did not keep up with inflation, and taxes soared (Canada). My father, born in 1930, asked when I would be retiring as I’m nearly 60. He has a tough time understanding that my standard of living is 1/2 what his was, and that I can’t retire anytime soon if ever. I have an office job, but both my knees are bone-on-bone and I’m in constant pain with limited mobility. Yet, I’m still having to do all my own home renos by myself: framing, plumbing, electrical, flooring, even drywall and mudding. Even if I could find any trustworthy, reliable contractors to do this work for me, I could not afford to hire them.
You and me both brother… jack of all master of none. Some stuff I do well and others… close enough…
Worked outside most my life, logging, construction, electrician… Worked office to when I got injured and went to BCIT for marine ops pushing paper to move bulk goods, hated it. Only time I collected off the govt was when I was retraining, they paid my rent and tuition.
No income so we live by the, can we afford it, can we do it ourselves. You find out quick enough about all the ‘stuff’ a person can live without and what is beneficial to chase. Growing a garden, planting trees and berries, digging in the soil, being outside in the fresh air and sunshine. Playing with the grands…
Talking with my neighbor today. He has an old 57 step side PU and a Vaga both with some serious engine hardware and accessories. He has a newer diesel PU and his wife has a newer Nissan, four vehicles worth close to 150K for two people. Spends money like water and complained that if even his wife losses her ‘job’ that they’ll lose their house and most what they have. Anxiety is a little high. His wife is a shrink and he has a surrey fire fighters pension, very good money coming in. I’ll keep my lifestyle over his, any day. He’s scared its all going to vanish, and it will… Mine… can’t lose what you don’t have, so not worried…
There is no slow return to equilibrium. There will be complete destruction and then a slow rebuilding over the course of multiple decades up to a century.
I graduated high school at the beginning of the oil embargo- work was almost impossible to find. When you did find a job you had better show up everyday and work hard!
I graduated in ’75. Shared a 2br 2bath apartment with a room mate on $1.80 per hr. It was pretty tight but I managed. Inflation was going up way faster than wages were. Got laid off in ’78 and it was really tough to find another job. Took me 4 months and it was scary.
Clearly he’s not paying enough for them. Job market is so nuts people can jump ship and fall upwards everywhere. It’s “no one wants to work… for what I’m paying”. And anyone who thinks things are normal on the other side of the fence should try applying to any kind of vaguely white collar job.
Face it you can’t pay enough for people with a work ethic !
You and your competition are using illegals .
If minimum wage kept up with inflation it would be $85 per hour plus benefits