Everybody says that the office environment is fake and constricting and people should be free to act however they want, but then you look at what happens where that’s allowed and it’s chefs
When this impulse is translated to politics you create a cartoonishly destructive coalition. People who view rent and wages as forces in their lives unmoored from anything like markets or other people’s budget. They don’t have the ability to map that far. There is simply an instinctual level “give me more” operating in them.
Back in the 90s Clinton wanted to reinvest a portion of the Social Security Surplus into the market to extend it's longevity. The proposed amount was 600 billion in 1990.
That 600 billion invested in Treasury Securities (what we currently do) turned into about 3.4 trillion...
That 600 billion invested in the market would be 24 trillion...
We are going to be taxed into poverty to pay for endless boomer luxury cruises because they refused to invest prudently.
Yeah when you’re part of a “book club” that does small arms practice and makes plans to attack a federal facility, then in the course of attacking the federal facility one of your “book club” members shoots a cop, you’re all going to jail for a long time.
Right you had a life time to prepare for retirement, failed to do so. Now you are demanding the young pay even more money so that you can continue to live the retirement you want. And you have the audacity to call us selfish.
I think with the blm type events there’s a lot of professional, or at least experienced, protestors who know how to control optics to some degree. The riots usually don’t happen till late at night when most of the original protestors go home. The thing is, even the ridiculous far left protestors aren’t defending this one. All you have left are the black racists who hate white people. There isn’t the usual ambiguity that makes somewhat rational people line up on both sides. You have one side that says you shouldn’t be allowed to stab someone in the heart for telling you to get lost, then you have the other side which isn’t really motivated by anything aside from racial hatred and hood honor. If one were to predict what each side would look like, they would be arrested for racist thought crimes, which happen to look a lot like the videos we’re seeing.
The other important aspect of all of this, is these people are real and they exist in large numbers. These are the people who are producing the crime in the inner cities. They don’t understand nor care about the law or our conception of right and wrong. Their sons and daughters will be tomorrow’s headlines of ridiculous violence, police encounters, and general dysfunction. This isn’t black people, but it is a large subset of black people that polite society pretends doesn’t exist. We’re only given glimpses of on media when an event like this takes place. This is the dysfunctional underclass.
There’s this weird ghetto honor system where they actually believe this is a case of self defense. That’s why he has supporters, that’s why people donated so much money to him. They really believe that he was justified in stabbing Austin for “putting his hands on me.” No of this testimony will convince his supporters because they already knew all of this. They think it’s fine.
A lot of class insecurity by young people who feel downwardly mobile can probably be linked to them having to take out a mortgage sized loan at 18. It’s just a recipe for turning otherwise normal productive members of society into radicals who want to burn the system down.
There are 18 year olds taking out $170,000 debt to get a business degree from Ohio State and all of the adults involved should be shot from a cannon into the sun.
If you look out your window you will see a familiar scene. Something you’ve seen thousands of times. You’re likely familiar with all of the objects in your field of vision, in fact you probably don’t even see them as individual objects, but just as one “thing I see when I look out my window.” In reality there’s an infinite amount of information before you. How many dozens of plant species? How many birds? How many bugs? What are the properties of the buildings, roads, sidewalks. One could spend his life studying just the things out your window. From an anthropological lens, from a logistical and manufacturing lens, historic, biological, cellular, it’s endless, but most of the time is just the “thing I see when I look out my window.”
If you’re even halfway interested in the world you’ll likely explore the various subsets of “thing I see when I look out my window.” You may learn the architect who built that building, you may learn the name of the attractive flower growing in that pot, you might learn why the road tends to have that type of defect… but you would be shocked by how many people have no desire or ability to do this.
Everything in their lives are large unresolved shapes that sometimes behave in unexpected and hostile manners. Insurance takes my money and gives me nothing. President elected and I lost my job. Evicted from apartment. Arrested even though the other guy was in the wrong. Walgreens closes even though I go there.
These people are just objects being acted upon by large indecipherable shapes for inscrutable reasons. This is how most people walk through life.