Your "program" is exactly right. In fact we don't need to deport anyone, just make it impossible for EMPLOYERS to use immigrants. If the gradient of opportunity is no longer in their favor, immigrants will go back to their own country.
One issue with your proposed solution is that it's not designed to work with the patterns of job creation and current corporate institutionalism. Your ideal job environment, where value-added is compensated more than time-value, is present within start-up culture. Start-ups are where actual new jobs in the economy are at, and they are often flexible and the compensation is risky and lucrative if you're in the right fields. Startups have the culture you outline. You also might not get paid.
But the actual stable profits are found in corporations. Those corporations are massive institutions with calcified policies and obtuse HR departments. Girlboss Karens rule the roost and will preclude any kind of reforms or change. But they have the financial power and revenue stability to better compensate their workers. So they attract people who crave stability and are willing to trade that for the chance at higher, riskier, profits.
How do you get more profits to startups? Allow for more creativity, innovation, risk-taking. Yet we do the opposite: we strangle every industry that might prove lucrative because it's too 'risky'
How do you get more workplace flexibility to corporations? It'd almost be easier to start it anew than to reform these institutions from within, because of all the inherent challenges and insurgent tactics used by malcontents.
One point I meant to make: startup culture would be a lot easier to survive for young men if the US legal system wasn't so broken. If you get screwed out of 10-20k in a startup situation, and you can even find an attorney who is competent and won't take more than that in the process of litigating it, it's likely to take 18 months to get anywhere, and few if any judges are going to bother resolving the dispute effectively and quickly.
There's no civil justice in America if you're not a millionaire or better. You're just expected to get screwed and accept it.
And let's say everything goes well for you, the startup prospers, and things go well: there's still a great chance you'll get screwed out of your options by a wealthier, more powerful, interest or partner. The use of litigation and lawfare in startup culture to divest equity partners isn't just part of the Facebook story, it's all-too-common even with small mom-and-pops.
You can't have a good workplace if your employment contract, and your other written agreements, are effectively worthless because of a failed judiciary.
Good article except that workers will always need unions as long as bosses/employees have legions of lobbyists, ‘Business Round Tables,’ and ‘Chambers of Commerce’s’ organized for their class and economic interests. Overcoming such divisions would require a new political and economic system altogether.
Unfortunately, our "leadership" doesn't care about improving the standard of living for the average American, except in as much as it improves their own lives. The fossils that occupy political offices are like barnacles encrusted on the ship of state. They will die off before they leave their staked location. The moochers and leaches who suck the government tit will continue voting their way of life, the only life in which they will ever have anything but subsistence, but at least they won't have to work for it, or toiling 40 hours a week, doing nothing in meaningless government jobs, wasting their days in boredom and seeking mindless diversion in front of a screen at night.
The solutions you offer would/will certainly steer America in the right direction, but are any of them likely to happen? It's gonna take a lot more than wishin' and hopin'.
Haven’t you read all of our major publications blasting you in the face with how great the economy is? How much more strident must we be with you plebs for you to get it? People are actually *wealthier* than they were 2 years ago!
Here’s the proof right here: we’re bawk-bawk-bawking it at you all day, every day on CNN and MSNBC! See the exclamation point we just applied? That makes it even more true!!
Get with it, tovarisch. We mean it…in the friendliest way possible, of course.
I like your recommendations. I would add to them: enforce the laws.
One of the biggest costs to the average person is dealing with lawlessness and personal danger. One example that comes to mind is the safety roulette imposed on anyone unlucky enough to have to endure public transportation in Los Angeles.
There’s so much wrong here. Imagine that bimbo at the next desk who’s boss says “ she’s a motivated employee who does in 10 hours what it takes you to do” so you, the smart guy, stays for 40. Can you spell UNION? People join them when they’re not treated fairly, and reform efforts on ongoing now to dump pie-card management and start unions where there were none. For reasons like this.
A recognized problem by corporate structure was the brain drain, when well paid long term experienced employees were shut out and replaced with low paid immigrants, causing a crisis in institutional memory. OTOH, if a secure retirement was part of the social contract, as it is in many other industrialized nations, and older workers happily retired, then you’d complain about SS recipients loafing on their gravy train, while ignoring the billions going to the CEOs and others in the top 10%.
It’s highly insulting to the “blue collar” workers who keep this country running, electricians, carpenters, plumbers, kitchen workers, even maids and groundskeepers, that they are “low intelligence.” I hope they hear this and get a little lazy next time YOU want a bowl of soup politely brought to your table or your toilet plunged.
I agree with a lot of the analysis. I think it would be a good thing overall to reindustrialise. However, as much as I’m a skeptic when it comes to the narrative of technological progress, there’s no denying that a lot of blue-collar work has been automated away.
I recently watched a documentary on one of Micron Technology’s factories in Taiwan. Micron are one of the leading players in the Memory chip market.
They had Technicians on the ground, monitoring the equipment etc. But a lot of the staff at the factory were “knowledge workers”, primarily in two main centres. One centre monitoring the factories water, electricity, chemical levels etc and the other one was a data centre team, monitoring the real-time data from the machines, as a lot of it is automated.
If we did this plus forcefully expelling all third world immigrants regardless of their legal status or generation, cutting all foreign aid to all countries, getting rid of welfare/federal aid, get rid of income tax, ending the federal reserve, and other useless bs Americans would be the most wealthiest people on earth.
Love when Peter sleeps in for the day and his boss keeps calling (“it wasn’t a half day or anything, so if you could just go ahead and … come in to the office, that would be greeeat.” and Peter just smiles and hangs up and goes right back to sleep.
“I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything I ever imagined it could be!”
The edu complex is the core of this system of exploration of the youth. You have the right idea but are proposing to nibble around margins instead of destroying the core; the state must be utterly forbidden to have any control or touch education at all. This is all quite enough evil by the state.
Edu is also the bedrock and core of Progressive rule from local communities to international.
You’ll see it’s most of your local taxes as well.
This is how Progressives came to dominate the West - by mandating 13 or more years of children’s lives come under their brainwashing- without college.
By the time college happens one is already an adult and already numb.
Many Americans were better prepared by finishing at the 8th grade and going to work mere decades ago. Young men in particular upon entering puberty need to be given hard skills to earn a living.
Or it’s wasting their time.
Very valuable time.
High school is largely a waste of time, if not actively ruinous via drugs, puberty.
Education in America is a monstrous form of human servitude in the service of educators, mostly administrators. This is evil, it’s harming our young, it should be destroyed.
The state should have no place in education.
1st amendment Establishment Clause as regards religion.
13th Amendment regarding Human Servitude.
We fought one Civil War over slavery, wars against Fascism and Communism, apparently we need another.
I suppose, nomatter how ya look at there's always gonna be a call for the EMT at the Wellness Center. I don't know if they actually call. Maybe they push a button if somebody didn't spill their coffee on it.
Your "program" is exactly right. In fact we don't need to deport anyone, just make it impossible for EMPLOYERS to use immigrants. If the gradient of opportunity is no longer in their favor, immigrants will go back to their own country.
Self deportation is very real and entirely feasible
One issue with your proposed solution is that it's not designed to work with the patterns of job creation and current corporate institutionalism. Your ideal job environment, where value-added is compensated more than time-value, is present within start-up culture. Start-ups are where actual new jobs in the economy are at, and they are often flexible and the compensation is risky and lucrative if you're in the right fields. Startups have the culture you outline. You also might not get paid.
But the actual stable profits are found in corporations. Those corporations are massive institutions with calcified policies and obtuse HR departments. Girlboss Karens rule the roost and will preclude any kind of reforms or change. But they have the financial power and revenue stability to better compensate their workers. So they attract people who crave stability and are willing to trade that for the chance at higher, riskier, profits.
How do you get more profits to startups? Allow for more creativity, innovation, risk-taking. Yet we do the opposite: we strangle every industry that might prove lucrative because it's too 'risky'
How do you get more workplace flexibility to corporations? It'd almost be easier to start it anew than to reform these institutions from within, because of all the inherent challenges and insurgent tactics used by malcontents.
Good analysis. A more dynamic economy is better for young men
One point I meant to make: startup culture would be a lot easier to survive for young men if the US legal system wasn't so broken. If you get screwed out of 10-20k in a startup situation, and you can even find an attorney who is competent and won't take more than that in the process of litigating it, it's likely to take 18 months to get anywhere, and few if any judges are going to bother resolving the dispute effectively and quickly.
There's no civil justice in America if you're not a millionaire or better. You're just expected to get screwed and accept it.
And let's say everything goes well for you, the startup prospers, and things go well: there's still a great chance you'll get screwed out of your options by a wealthier, more powerful, interest or partner. The use of litigation and lawfare in startup culture to divest equity partners isn't just part of the Facebook story, it's all-too-common even with small mom-and-pops.
You can't have a good workplace if your employment contract, and your other written agreements, are effectively worthless because of a failed judiciary.
Good article except that workers will always need unions as long as bosses/employees have legions of lobbyists, ‘Business Round Tables,’ and ‘Chambers of Commerce’s’ organized for their class and economic interests. Overcoming such divisions would require a new political and economic system altogether.
Good point.
Unfortunately, our "leadership" doesn't care about improving the standard of living for the average American, except in as much as it improves their own lives. The fossils that occupy political offices are like barnacles encrusted on the ship of state. They will die off before they leave their staked location. The moochers and leaches who suck the government tit will continue voting their way of life, the only life in which they will ever have anything but subsistence, but at least they won't have to work for it, or toiling 40 hours a week, doing nothing in meaningless government jobs, wasting their days in boredom and seeking mindless diversion in front of a screen at night.
The solutions you offer would/will certainly steer America in the right direction, but are any of them likely to happen? It's gonna take a lot more than wishin' and hopin'.
What is unthinkable is undoable. My strategy is to simply get these ideas out there
Absolutely. Thank you for be a voice of reason.
Dear Stupid Dum-Dum Peasant,
Haven’t you read all of our major publications blasting you in the face with how great the economy is? How much more strident must we be with you plebs for you to get it? People are actually *wealthier* than they were 2 years ago!
Here’s the proof right here: we’re bawk-bawk-bawking it at you all day, every day on CNN and MSNBC! See the exclamation point we just applied? That makes it even more true!!
Get with it, tovarisch. We mean it…in the friendliest way possible, of course.
Sincerely yours,
The Government
Lol
I like your recommendations. I would add to them: enforce the laws.
One of the biggest costs to the average person is dealing with lawlessness and personal danger. One example that comes to mind is the safety roulette imposed on anyone unlucky enough to have to endure public transportation in Los Angeles.
There’s so much wrong here. Imagine that bimbo at the next desk who’s boss says “ she’s a motivated employee who does in 10 hours what it takes you to do” so you, the smart guy, stays for 40. Can you spell UNION? People join them when they’re not treated fairly, and reform efforts on ongoing now to dump pie-card management and start unions where there were none. For reasons like this.
A recognized problem by corporate structure was the brain drain, when well paid long term experienced employees were shut out and replaced with low paid immigrants, causing a crisis in institutional memory. OTOH, if a secure retirement was part of the social contract, as it is in many other industrialized nations, and older workers happily retired, then you’d complain about SS recipients loafing on their gravy train, while ignoring the billions going to the CEOs and others in the top 10%.
It’s highly insulting to the “blue collar” workers who keep this country running, electricians, carpenters, plumbers, kitchen workers, even maids and groundskeepers, that they are “low intelligence.” I hope they hear this and get a little lazy next time YOU want a bowl of soup politely brought to your table or your toilet plunged.
I don't think you read the piece. I think skilled workers are good and necessary and deserve to make a lot
N.b., this anti-boomer post-boomer article does not apply to billable-hour jobs.
I agree with a lot of the analysis. I think it would be a good thing overall to reindustrialise. However, as much as I’m a skeptic when it comes to the narrative of technological progress, there’s no denying that a lot of blue-collar work has been automated away.
I recently watched a documentary on one of Micron Technology’s factories in Taiwan. Micron are one of the leading players in the Memory chip market.
They had Technicians on the ground, monitoring the equipment etc. But a lot of the staff at the factory were “knowledge workers”, primarily in two main centres. One centre monitoring the factories water, electricity, chemical levels etc and the other one was a data centre team, monitoring the real-time data from the machines, as a lot of it is automated.
Good points all, but there is no power over the people in these scenarios. Hence moving politicians to act will be an uphill battle.
If we did this plus forcefully expelling all third world immigrants regardless of their legal status or generation, cutting all foreign aid to all countries, getting rid of welfare/federal aid, get rid of income tax, ending the federal reserve, and other useless bs Americans would be the most wealthiest people on earth.
Love when Peter sleeps in for the day and his boss keeps calling (“it wasn’t a half day or anything, so if you could just go ahead and … come in to the office, that would be greeeat.” and Peter just smiles and hangs up and goes right back to sleep.
“I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything I ever imagined it could be!”
The edu complex is the core of this system of exploration of the youth. You have the right idea but are proposing to nibble around margins instead of destroying the core; the state must be utterly forbidden to have any control or touch education at all. This is all quite enough evil by the state.
Edu is also the bedrock and core of Progressive rule from local communities to international.
You’ll see it’s most of your local taxes as well.
This is how Progressives came to dominate the West - by mandating 13 or more years of children’s lives come under their brainwashing- without college.
By the time college happens one is already an adult and already numb.
🔥 edu
Many Americans were better prepared by finishing at the 8th grade and going to work mere decades ago. Young men in particular upon entering puberty need to be given hard skills to earn a living.
Or it’s wasting their time.
Very valuable time.
High school is largely a waste of time, if not actively ruinous via drugs, puberty.
Education in America is a monstrous form of human servitude in the service of educators, mostly administrators. This is evil, it’s harming our young, it should be destroyed.
The state should have no place in education.
1st amendment Establishment Clause as regards religion.
13th Amendment regarding Human Servitude.
We fought one Civil War over slavery, wars against Fascism and Communism, apparently we need another.
🔥 edu.
I suppose, nomatter how ya look at there's always gonna be a call for the EMT at the Wellness Center. I don't know if they actually call. Maybe they push a button if somebody didn't spill their coffee on it.