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.
It isn’t the people who marched at Charlottesville who should be blamed. They’re out of power. Who should be blamed is the economic policy makers who misdirect non-whites against people who are screaming from the sidelines.
What the heavily Boomer 1% has done, is essentially camouflaged corporate racing to the bottom through global outsourcing to third world countries underneath anti-racism and tolerance. They talk about white supremacism while they fire white workers.
If it’s true that someone like Lance Armstrong can be considered a hero and then found to be a cheat, it’s also true that heroes have been cheated. I’m talking about business, not biking. And for the record, my stance is that it wasn’t just Lance, it was all of them.
My stance on Armstrong is that he was the best in a dirty era, but I needed an analogy here.
The problem I’ve always had is that the people who made their way up the ladder before globalization destroyed it don’t give their own jobs away. They make sure the “high experience” jobs stay here. It’s really a mess to see how inefficient the modern office is because of all the insulating things boomers have done. They go out of their way to mess things up for millenials.
From the time I got out of college I noticed that boomers were consolidating their power in business and intentionally putting experience requirements in such a way that only other boomers could get the jobs. Requiring such an amount of experience that would be unlikely if you didn’t come up at a certain time when certain things trended.
I’m realizing it wasn’t just me. In all areas of society, they rigged things in a way to hold money and power and basically screwed the next generation. It’s not that they’re more competent it’s that they gamed the system to artificially keep too large a share of power. Then they talk about globalization, pluralism and inclusivity – which they use to justify using extremely cheap labor for the other jobs where the costs of housing is next to zero in third world countries.
The reason older and older people keep taking more and more political seats is that the powers that be have realized that our generations are going opposite ways. It’s not about being on the same trajectory but earlier in that trajectory. We’re going another path. They know it and they’re doing everything they can to delay it. The problem is I don’t want to be 50 years old when finally some things start to get fixed.
The free market, unregulated, global economy with full trust in the rich and no safety net has been tried and failed. we’ve all seen it fail and experienced its failures.
The best decision I ever made was to not invest in housing. I decided that employers can’t be trusted and multiple times I’ve been proven right. There was a point in time where I could have bought an affordable house, but I didn’t, because I could get a feel that the economic forces weren’t based on merit. That essentially I was on a wave and that the wave could turn in the other direction. And i’ve been right every time.The problem is that you have dumbasses as corporate higher ups and I know that and I distrust buying a house when things are going well because of that.
Millennials aren’t making big investments because there are dumb asses higher up in corporate management. It’s a result of cynicism and of having lived a harder life than baby boomers, who were given everything and then bankrupted it. Technology might be improved, but idiots are still idiots. Even in upper management you have idiots.
If our generation had its act together, it would be so easy to just blame the previous one (skipping over gen x). They really set the course for destroying the ability for someone to work their way into the middle class by completely and totally allowing corporations to restructure globally and not be regulated. In such a way that drives down our wages but still sticks us with expensive housing and education.
If you worked in the tech fields, you’d gain an appreciation for how messed up it is. The problem is that technical issues are solved by knowledge, not corporate hierarchies. However, corporate white collar types try to impose their politics over issues that have technical requirement. On average, the Indians brought over aren’t very resourceful or skilled. They’re just brought over and then favored. Then the older boomers make sure the experience requirements are always really high to protect their own jobs, while placing Indians. It’s essentially people sitting in an office pretending to work and taking office politics to the point of not actually properly solving problems through the technical knowledge required.
Boomers have created a situation where management in many white collar corporations lives in a bubble. You’re often laid off with no warning, as if they had a meeting behind closed doors halfway across the country. Those who make decision are so removed from them.