Reflections From a Murky Pond

It’s a hard truth that most won’t conscious accept and all the Socialist sorts will violently deny that it is the work that is worth the wage, not the worker. No worker has any intrinsic value, on their work does. And, Ladies, Gentlemen, and Leftists, this is true for exactly 100% of us, irrespective of what sort of labor we perform or for whom.

And yes, that sucks! Then, more often than not, the objective truth sucks for somebody because they’re on the down side of it.

It’s truly simple. It’s the work you do – the product you produce or the service you provide – that has value to the consumer and, hence to the business, be it your employer or your own business. You, yourself are worthless in this equation; you have no value. You are replaceable, either by another worker or, as is more and more common, by an automated process.

But remember, as I said, this applies to all of us. This is totally equal and egalitarian, spanning both genders, all races, and all social classes.

If what you do and the amount of it you do isn’t worth both your wage and your amortized share of materials costs and overhead, you won’t be likely to have a wage anymore. And, by “wage” I do mean your total compensation package, every single dime that an employer has to spend upon you. Your employer – or you, if you own your own business – has to be able to sell the fruits of your labor for enough more than the fully-weighted cost of producing or providing it to make it worth doing so in the first place. Or the business will fail and you will have no wage.

Honestly, this is Economics 101R, but it seems to need to be taught again, and again, and again, because way too many people have serious and deep-seated illusions of worth.

But, and this is both a big and important but, a worker’s work may have more value than the employer either knows or is willing to admit in the absence of force. The effects upon both prices and profits at McDonald’s indicates that some employers can bear to pay more for the work their employees provide.

So, the correct way of thinking is what ones work is actually worth, not pretending that one as a worker has intrinsic worth in a business context.

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This entry was posted on Monday, July 25th, 2022 at 8:30 am and is filed under Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

We so often hear from the Liberals, Progressives, Socialists, Communists, and Anarchists – in other words, Democrats in general – that Capitalism is unsustainable. The thing is that, in a very odd way, these Leftists are correct. Capitalism isn’t sustainable, it’s sustaining.

Simply put, Capitalism is what sustains the world, its peoples, and all of the world’s civilizations. Without it many or most would die.

The only time that non-Capitalist nations produce anything of note at anywhere near the rate of Capitalist nations is when Nationalism is a core component of those nations, e.g., the USSR during the Cold War. Yet most of those non-Capitalist nation, along with everyone else, receive a share of the benefit of the wealth and advances created under- and due to Capitalism as an economic foundation.

And no, this is not hyperbole. Capitalism is and has been the only economic system that provides at least semi-stable growth over the long haul. As such, it is the only economic system that fosters an environment of innovation and growth. To reject it now would result in a human catastrophe to rival the Great Flood, albeit one that would be slower and more torturous.

Altruism Alone Does Little To Nothing

Altruism may be a vector in choosing what to do, but alone it’s neither enough motivation nor a viable sole goal to both get people to do something of notable worth for society and provide them the means to do so. That takes money, money of note at least somewhat equal to the societal benefit to be gained.

And that is the underpinning of why Capitalism is what sustains progress and the material benefits of any civilization. No other economic system has, can, or likely will consistently provide the fertile soil for those things at a level comparable to Capitalism.

But It’s Not Fair!

“It’s not fair!” That is the most common complaint about Capitalism from its opponents. This complaint stems from the fact that Capitalism doesn’t normally have equal results, because it is fair. The more and more appropriate to the specific market effort is put into capitalism, the greater the result in almost all cases.

But that’s their problem. Capitalism takes work, hard and smart work, if one wants to benefit from it. It actually normally takes working harder smarter and working smarter harder to really materially succeed. Most people, and almost all of the anti-Capitalists, don’t like that at all. They don’t like meritocracies one little bit, because not everyone does as well in them as everyone – or even some fraction thereof – else.

A Multi-Generational Caveat

The one caveat to the “fairness” of Capitalism is that, properly managed, wealth is multi-generational. We pass our success onto our progeny, and this provides them an inherently advantaged starting position from which to build their own success. Hence, each generation of a family in Capitalism can be materially better off than the one before. And that can easily come across as seeming unfair to those struggling from a start-up position.

This also leads to the enemies of Capitalism claiming that Capitalism is racist. Since the vast majority of Blacks don’t grow up in a normative family structure that would to some extent shield them from poverty, they’re almost always starting from square one.

Where It Does Fall Apart

But, Capitalism isn’t perfect. It’s vulnerable to subornation and is especially bad when it is suborned. Whenever a government steps in and inserts itself into a Capitalist economy, whether it be to further certain sorts of endeavors or to adjust success to achieve what is now called Equity, things devolve rather quickly and to very few people’s long-term benefit.

And, it also breaks down quickly and rather horrifically when companies insert or subsume government functions such as the Company Towns that still exist in some fashion today, e.g., Disney’s Reedy Creek Improvement District, where they are essentially the government as well as the primary employer.

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So, while the Liberals, Progressives, Socialists, Communists, and Anarchists – in other words, Democrats in general – whine, scream, rant, and rave that Capitalism is unsustainable, it is literally what sustains the world and allows for all or most forms of material progress. Then, they have nothing to truly measure it against, since no non-Capitalist economic system has independently sustained itself long enough to determine its long-term effects.

Much like Democracy is to governmental forms, Capitalism is the worst form of Economy except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

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This entry was posted on Saturday, June 4th, 2022 at 4:50 am and is filed under Politics, Society. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

And that is why the Liberals and Progressives, along with their minority sharecroppers, have spend decades infiltrating and suborning the educational systems of the Civilized World. They internalized Lenin’s words about education and plan to make the most of them that they can.

NOTE: To be heartlessly fair, we Americans largely chose the $$$ of doing over the far lesser compensation from teaching. Hence, we tacitly ceded the teaching industry to them.

Obviously, they’re not going to willingly include anything in their curricula that doesn’t advance their vision of the quasi/pseudo-nation that they want to replace America with. And, they’re going to keep trying in include extraneous and destructive false teachings in their curricula whenever they can manage to do so, e.g., Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Social Emotional Learning (SEL).

Hellfire! My Fellow Americans – Frankly, My Fellow Whites – if this shocks you or offends you a great deal, you are one of their useful idiots! The Left’s behavior in this is utterly and completely normal. We, the People did the same thing back in better, bygone days – admittedly, though without shame for something I had and could have no part in – with some pernicious and unfortunate ideas included in it.

And hey! Beyond hot, semi-anonymous babes, this may be one of the unsung benefits of the COVID-19 pandemic and panicdemic. Our children – well, yours; mine range in ages between 37 and 19 – have been effectively home-schooled for a couple of years now. We’ve finally gotten to witness what the official curricula are and what the teacher have included in it or spun it to be and have the chance to try to do something about it.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 11th, 2022 at 5:42 am and is filed under Politics, Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

In response to Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s, somewhat tacky yet historically normal comment upon Russia and the rest of the Collective Security Treaty Organization sending troops into Kazakhstan, the Kremlin responded thusly:

If Antony Blinken loves history lessons so much, then he should take the following into account: when Americans are in your house, it can be difficult to stay alive and not be robbed or raped.

We are taught this not only by the recent past but by all 300 years of American statehood.

Now firstly, this is the normal sequence of snarky, belittling comment followed by an escalating-within-the-theme response that is the hallmark of US-Russian dialog. As such, it’s barely worth noting and I would completely ignore it if it didn’t provide strong evidence that Russia is still Leftist to this day.

If It Rants Like A Leftist…

This is the only thing I find interesting about Russia’s response to Blinken’s baiting. It is nothing more than a suaver and more intelligently worded version of the anti-American rantings that we’ve been peppered with the Leftists inside America’s borders for over half a century.

I guess it just goes to show that while their State Socialism was ended during President Reagan’s tenure, Russia is still Leftist in the ways that really matter to us Americans.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 at 9:41 am and is filed under Announcements. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Personally, I think that women have been trained to believe that the primary reason that they either can’t get a man or keep a man is their physical beauty since the first person realized that he or she could make a living off of convincing women of that idea.

More often though, when it comes to a man breaking up with a woman, it’s not at all about her appearance. It’s about how she acts and what her ideology is. Most men, especially those men who are “worth anything as men” will leave post-haste as soon as they realize that the female they’re with is not a woman, but a womyn. They leave because socialists, feminists, “wokelings,” and similar sorts make piss-poor mates and should never be allowed into circumstances when and where they might bear children.

Then again, there is some truth to such womyn’s sentiments, just not in the shallow, venal, ephemeral context that they relegate men’s opinions to. Men have, do, and will break up with womyn because they’re ugly. It’s just that it’s the ugliness of their minds and souls, not of their features and forms, that drive good men away.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 7th, 2021 at 9:01 am and is filed under Humor, Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.