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I went into tech because I like to automate logic and create formulas to solve problems, but I got an inside view that the level of corporate red tape in these jobs is atrocious. Too many people who don’t have the ability to tune into the radio station intellectually try to deal with issues that they don’t understand because of their corporate rank.

In the era before Boomers remade our economy, performance basically determined position. The guy who packed more mouse traps at the factory got a promotion over the guy who didn’t.

Boomers switched the economy from a more industrial capitalism to a financial form of capitalism where everything is based on favoritism. They slowly did away with the ladder where people could work their way up. They replaced that with third world labor, while making the office more openly favoritist.

As I stress though, third world labor is used only for the more entry level positions, not for the “experienced” (boomer dominated) positions.

There are two types of millennials. There is one type which doesn’t trust anything and the other which trusts everything.

The first type went into the business world and saw people getting burned, the second can’t take reality given to it from the first at its full harshness. They can’t accept that the darker view of the world is actually right because it doesn’t feel good.

As I wrote earlier, the older you get, the more you (should) realize that often the more distressing view is the correct one. It’s back to the two pills again. You lose faith in “the average” when you see repeated instances of events that run counter to meritocracy.

Middle class people think the shareholders view them as the guy playing on the court on an nba team, when they’re viewed as the guy working the concession stand.

I hate one liners, but this is the time for one.

Shareholders want the lowest possible wages paid, the ability to hire and fire and hire and fire and hire and fire and no national borders so they can make the labor as cheap as possible in the third world.  That’s the interests of shareholders.

It’s only government that creates the middle class with things like minimum wages, trade barriers, discrimination and labor laws etc.  The problem is that the middle class instead develops loyalty to the exact shareholders that want to axe them, but it might not quite be the opportune time to axe them realistically.   The plot to axe you is already in place.

To describe this as “white privilege” is ludicrous and automatically takes you out of respectable opinion.

My position on the McMichael incident is that they really didn’t intend to kill Arberry but the law is very strict that it’s a felony to corner someone and “false imprison” them and that if you kill in self defense while committing a felony it’s still murder. I don’t think it’s a “hate crime” but I do think felony murder unfortunately applies – it’s unfortunate because I do believe they just wanted to enforce the law but they’re not cops.

On Zimmerman and Rittenhouse my position is that what they did was absolutely idiotic and they should be judged on it. However, they shouldn’t be legally convicted on it. They didn’t corner the people, they annoyed the people and then got attacked. Idiotic, but not material to any legal question.

My position on Floyd was that I can’t determine if the drugs actually killed him from video but I believe the trial looked into that and determined that it wasn’t the drugs based on the autopsy.

If the McMichaels had stayed further away and Arberry ran at them it would be a whole different story.

When I had a site free media productions as one of two owners, I remember posting this classic article. If you really believe that business operates based on merit based measurements more than favors, this should take a cut at that view.

If things were actually the way you were taught they were, those employees would have been fired for more productive ones (before a public outcry). The red pill on big corporations.

(CNN) — As the country was sinking into its worst financial crisis in more than 70 years, Security and Exchange Commission employees and contractors cruised porn sites and viewed sexually explicit pictures using government computers, according to an agency report obtained by CNN.

“During the past five years, the SEC OIG (Office of Inspector General) substantiated that 33 SEC employees and or contractors violated Commission rules and policies, as well as the government-wide Standards of Ethical Conduct, by viewing pornographic, sexually explicit or sexually suggestive images using government computer resources and official time,” said a summary of the investigation by the inspector general’s office.

More than half of the workers made between $99,000 and $223,000. All the cases took place over the past five years.

“It is nothing short of disturbing that high-ranking officials within the SEC were spending more time looking at pornography than taking action to help stave off the events that brought our nation’s economy to the brink of collapse,” said Rep. Darrell Issa. The Republican is the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

“This stunning report should make everyone question the wisdom of moving forward with plans to give regulators like the SEC even more widespread authority,” he said. “Inexplicably, rather than exercise its existing regulatory enforcement authority, SEC officials were preoccupied with other distractions.”

Video: SEC staffers caught surfing porn

SEC spokesman John Nester said the employees involved have been disciplined or are being disciplined. Some have been suspended or dismissed, he said, adding that the SEC has further increased penalties for misusing government resources in recent months.

“We will not tolerate the transgressions of the very few who bring discredit to their thousands of hardworking colleagues,” he said.

The investigation came to light on the same day President Obama gave a speech in lower Manhattan, calling for reform in the finance industry.

On Capitol Hill, the Senate is working on a financial reform bill that would set up regulatory oversight of the financial industry’s practices with the goal of preventing another Wall Street meltdown like the one in 2008 that launched the U.S. recession.

The bill includes an “early warning” system intended to spot signs of crisis, as well as a $50 billion liquidation fund created with money from banks and other finance industry corporations to ensure an orderly transition in closing down failing entities. It was recently approved by the Senate’s Banking and Agricultural committees. The House passed its version of the bill in December.

The inspector general’s report includes specific examples of misuse by employees.

A regional office staff accountant tried to access pornographic websites nearly 1,800 times, using her SEC laptop during a two-week period. She also had about 600 pornographic images saved on her laptop hard drive.

Separately, a senior attorney at SEC headquarters admitted to downloading pornography up to eight hours a day, according to the investigation.

“In fact, this attorney downloaded so much pornography to his government computer that he exhausted the available space on the computer hard drive and downloaded pornography to CDs or DVDs that he accumulated in boxes in his office,” the inspector general’s report said.

That they fired some employees after a public outcry just proves my point. That’s actually hypocritical. You didn’t have a problem with it then, so why now? You either winked and nodded the other way or choose to not monitor. In actuality, firing them years later when there is a public outcry is actually an injustice because you sent the message that it was okay by not intervening earlier.

The more layers a business has, the more opportunities there are for someone on top to stab you in the back. The business will keep going on because people don’t take moral stands in business, they just collect their paycheck. Harvey Weinstein raped women and Jerry Sandusky raped children – the business kept going on because people just want their individual pay check. You want small business not big business.

I noticed this with message forums too. If you run a blog it doesn’t matter who is moderating.

Blue pill – Money doesn’t really matter that much in elections. We’re all Americans, the rich have a little more influence but not that much more influence.

Red pill – The owners of corporations manipulate elections strongly.

As you grow older, you learn that the more uncomfortable pill is usually the correct one.

Every economy has a role of government. If someone shoplifts it’s government that arrests them. There is no such thing as a free market that runs without the government. The question is what the government does.

In the 1980s, America decided that the role of Government isn’t to regulate and audit but instead to look the other way and then arrest blue collar criminals when inevitably the middle class falls apart because it’s not in the interest of corporate shareholders to have a middle class.

Boomers today still carry these attitudes with them and are still forming the lobbying and political power that prevents reversing the damage they caused.

You could throw someone in the middle of the ocean and then tell them it’s their “personal responsibility” to swim back. That’s what the boomer generation has done to the millennial generation.