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What Happens When "The Workers" Just Don't Care Anymore?
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,
One of the big problems in America today is that a lot of people simply do not seem to care about what they are doing anymore. The level of sloth, laziness and apathy that we are witnessing in this country is absolutely mind-numbing. Of course this is not true of everyone. There are still many Americans that are extremely hard working. But overall, it really appears that people are not taking as much pride in their work as they once did. Some of the examples that I am about to show you are quite funny. Others are more than just a little bit disturbing. But they all have a common theme. Americans from all walks of life are simply giving up. Whether they are teachers, delivery people or fast food workers, the truth is that there are a whole lot of people out there that seem to have mentally checked out.
For example, take a close look at the midterm exam posted below. Does anything stand out to you?...
If you can't read the writing in the red box, this is what it says...
"In all honesty, I am already bored with this topic. It is far less interesting than I had hoped and I really don't want to finish this essay. I'm fairly sure you don't really read these so I'm just going to put enough words down to make it seem like I wrote a lot while I kill time. Wanna hear some words that rhyme with time?
Crime, dime, mime, (haha mimes are funny), chime, lime. Aw dude you know what has lime in it? Sprite, it like lemon lime. I could really go for one of those about now, but not sierra mist, that just isn't the same. It tries too hard to be sprite but it just cant pull it off. It should just try to be itself and stop trying to measure up to other sodas."
To be fair, there is a tremendous amount of debate about this photo on the Internet. Some people insist that no teacher would ever be so careless and that this picture must have been photoshopped. Others that have studied this photo insist that there is no sign of alteration and that it is 100% authentic.
I will let you come to your own conclusion.
What is undeniable, on the other hand, is that there are a lot of delivery people out there that simply do not seem to care anymore.
For example, in the YouTube video that I have posted below, you can watch a postal worker drive her truck on to someone's lawn. She is so lazy that she doesn't even have the energy to take a few steps and place the package at the customer's door...
And in this next YouTube video, another postal worker does not even get out of his truck. He just carelessly tosses a package (which could contain something very expensive) toward the customer's home...
What would cause someone to act like that?
What has caused so many Americans to no longer take any pride in their work?
Another place where this can be seen frequently is at fast food restaurants.
For instance, the photo that I have posted below of a Wendy's employee gulping down soft serve ice cream with his mouth under the Frosty dispenser went viral on the Internet a while back...
I don't know about you, but to me that is absolutely disgusting. Needless to say, that worker quickly lost his job.
And of course there is no shortage of other fast food horror stories out there.
The following is one of my favorite examples...
Tony Hill, a pastor in Baltimore, Maryland, once got a deep-fried mouse along with his chicken at Popeye's. The old "I found a rat in my fried chicken!" urban legend is decades old - this particular story was given a little credence, however, by the fact that local health authorities confirmed that the Popeye's in question had a rodent problem.
These days even the criminals are getting lazy.
The following story is very tragic. Violent crime in America is on the rise, and as the economy continues to get worse people are going to steal just about anything that is not bolted down.
In the little town of Denison, Iowa, a couple of thugs recently shot and killed an elderly couple while they were attempting to steal some scrap metal...
A Denison man told investigators that he and another man shot two people, then set fire to a trailer with the victims inside, according to court documents.
Jayden Chapman said he and Michael D. Schenk shot Marvin Huelsing, 80, and Alice Huisenga, 81, on Monday, according to a criminal complaint and affidavit filed in Crawford County District Court.
This is the kind of thing that we are going to see a lot more frequently in the years ahead.
Those thugs thought that they would get away with murder by burning the victims inside their own trailer, but they foolishly left behind a receipt from the Wal-Mart where they had just been shopping at the scene of the crime...
A pickup truck more than 200 yards north of the trailer also was burned. Near it, investigators found on the ground a receipt from the Denison Walmart with a debit-card number from a food-stamp card. Authorities determined the card was assigned to Schenck.
In this case, justice was served by the slothfulness of the American people, and I hope that those murderers are given the highest penalty allowed by law.
But in general, slothfulness is a terrible thing. And it isn't just a few people that are being slothful. This is a national disease. I like how Jim Quinn put it in his recent article...
The government controlled public education system has flourished beyond all expectations of your owners. We’ve become a nation of techno-narcissistic, math challenged, reality TV distracted, welfare entitled, materialistic, gluttonous, indebted consumers of Chinese slave labor produced crap.
But even though so many of us are aware of what is happening to us, we just can't seem to break out of it as a nation.
It really does seem like most people are walking around in a fog these days.
Maybe the fact that 70 million Americans are on mind-altering drugs has something to do with it.
I don't know.
But unless Americans start taking more pride in their work again and start living their lives with meaning and purpose, it is going to be very difficult to envision a positive future for this country.
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I think you are also observing Darwin in action. Modern society preferentially propagates the lame and stupid and discourages the intelligent from reproducing. It only takes a generation or two to have a society of complete imbeciles.
I heartily recommend reading The Marching Morons by C.S. Kornbluth.
We do need to disengage and re-engage. I think that is happening.
Most people are decent. Thugs are the minority.
The level of education is a loss that can be reversed.
We are not going to turn into gray goo.
Getting some ice cream, brb
And when you pay people shit wages (menial shit jobs or not) and keep raping them in the backdoor by taking moar and moar as their money buys less and less what would you expect....
The system has by and large been incentivized to create just this sort of outcome and will just be a slow decline as long as people keep participating and doing nothing about it.
Kill the globalist backdoor control system and take back control of the money creation and sovereign resources along with decisions based upon said resources then we can talk about productivity. Until then nothing changes anything short of that is just more of the same without dealing with the root problem.
And to expand on this point. Up until 1964 we were on a silver standard for everyday currency usage, with that said we can make some comparisons.
Let's take a 1932 - 1964 Washington Quarter which is 90% silver based on the most recent melt value is $3.60.
http://www.coinflation.com/coins/silver_calc.php
Here is the important point that coin is still legal tender and if you used it in the supermarket you could only purchase .25 cents of goods and services even though it is really worth $3.60.
The purchasing power for every quarter earned since they went off the silver standard for currency has been reduced by -1340% !?!?! FOR EVERY QUARTER EARNED REGARDLESS OF WAGES. That is stealth taxation through inflation without representation ass raping done to you by a private corporation called the Federal Reserve that doesn't answer to the American voter. Your government fucked you over and gave it to outside interests the second they allowed your labor to be pledged as collateral in return for someone else's funny paper to buy their debt to fund their spending sprees.
Take that even further in 1961 $1.25 was minimum wage. That $1.25 in silver standard quarters will purchase $18 worth of goods and services in todays dollars as opposed to $7.10 for minimum wage in today's dollar.
Who got fucked here, everyone. Fix that it goes a long way towards fixing all the underlying structural problems that need to be addressed first.
Exactly
take back control of the money creation...
I've been giving this some more thought. The US Congress is charged with coining money and they've passed that off to the private sector federal reserve and treasury department of the executive branch. Now, would you prefer to have the likes of Maxine Waters responsible for those activities?
Just wonderin.
Nobody cares, nobody is responsible, nobody accepts responsibility, it's everybody else's fault, I wasn't there, nobody saw me, I got an excuse, I swear it officer, do you know who I am, ha ha ha ha, so sue me, go on, tell the (fill in the blank), fuck you, touch me and you're toast, I know where you live, nobody pays any attention to the law anyhow, the big shots get away with murder so why not me, moral hazard they created, I pay my taxes, Linda Green, MF Global, I'm a constitutional lawyer, never heard of it/him/her, why should I tell you, it's George Bush's fault, we bring good things to life democracy freedom egality fraternity fellowship, be glad you're (fill in the blank), American (or other country, nationality, race, color, creed) exceptionalism, my shit smells better than yours, I'll never get convicted, never mind, mind your own fucking business, that's mine, finders keepers, whatever...
Nobody cares.
There is no reason to care, apparently.
If I fuck up, the state will take care of me, bail me out, let me walk.
The State has Come to This.
The Deliverer of All Things for Everybody, but There's Not Enough to Go Around so everybody but the Elite get Shorted.
Karl Marx was right.
The system will choke upon itself.
By design.
Hi sweet klown,
Wonder if you remember "Nobody for president." Hint, the guy was also a clown and was active in the 60s.
We had a memo a few weeks back.
PLEASE FILL IN THE EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION SURVEY.
THIS SURVEY IS TO HELP US MAKE SURE WE CONTINUE WORKING WITH SATISFIED EMPLOYEES .
Yeah... now for me that meanth: if your not satisfied, you're fired so in the survey I kept saying how wonderfull my moron boss is.
But in a way I failed because when te results came out, 80% didn't want to fill in the survey :)
Youcan't FORCE people into carrering. Respect, it's a two way street.
The government hands out record amounts of free money and people don't care about work anymore.
Hmmmm. I wonder why?
If you want an audio version of what is happening this is a pretty good summary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwrxnjTxc-I
DEVO from "Duty Now for the Future"- "Corporate Anthem, Clockout, Timing X, Wiggly World" - circa 1979.
Notice the facial recognition lines on their faces, the blacked out eyes, the bar codes in the background; depersonalization and conformity to the kleptoligarchy.
"They say the fittest shall survive
Yet the unfit may live
Let 'em wear gaudy colors
Or avoid display
Hey it don't matter
It's all the same
So I do this and I do that...
It's never straight up and down...
Oh you got a nickel
I got a dime
I'd like to get to know you
But I haven't got the time
You gotta walk like a mannequin
Roll like a tire
Act on reaction
Dodge the big spud fryer
So wiggle on the bottom
Wiggle on the top
Wiggle up the middle
And laugh a lot
Cause I've been living in a wiggly world."
Rock n' Roll on fellow Spuds.
It may be the most efficient way to get a mouthful of soy-based ice cream flavored slop. But the dude was too lazy to just grab a cup out of the left side of the machine and use that instead. Maybe his job is to count the leftover cups at the end of his shift and he'd be reprimanded by having one missing...
hit and run driver blew out my left shoulder four years ago next month. My own insurance company is contesting I have any injuries though my car was totaled. I have not taken a gun into the insurance companies office and killed the receptionist or the man who sold me insurance there that I paid on time every month for 14 years. I did change insurance companies. I did hire a Jewish lawyer who will take 40% of the settlement because this is obviously heading to trial. The man who looked me in the eye as I was on the edge of passing out will deal with results for his actions in another age. I shoveled french fries for minimum wage and never had a desire to spit in them. Pay then was 1.65 an hour. I have worked on farms and shoveled shit and a stall was clean when I was done. It stunk but they paid me to do it. I could go on. We have become a nation of fat lazy uncaring slobs because we have become a nation who would rather blame everyone or everything else around us than look in the mirror and say you are a fat lazy slob who thinks the world owes you a living. I hope to never be that fat lazy slob.
Thanks, a True (to himself, at least!) man is his own harshest critic!
Watch Fight Club and then tell me that you do not want to piss in the soup.
Surely you don't mean literally. All life is based on work. Honest work is an absolute necessity.
What is not required is stealing work. Share your time with people.
I'll toss in my 2 cents here. I wrote about folks not able to tell when the values are virtual or real anymore and I think it's a big problem as marketing just drags you in hook line and sinker if you believe that stuff. Reporters are getting partially graded on how much content they put out there for click bait and Harvard just wrote about the Oregonian making that announcement for their paper. Here's a few paragraphs...notice Google is doing a study because of after many years of hiring thousands of them, they know more about bot than us.
If folks can't understand where square one is and where value lies, you are right we get exactly what you talked about, people check out. Here's the link to my entire rant or knowledge or what ever you might want to call it below.
Virtual Worlds, Real World We Have A Problem And It’s A Big One With A Lot of Gray Areas Finding Where The Defining Lines Exist, Confusing Many With A Lot of Weird Values And Strange Perceptions…Well let’s move forward a few years and look at where things have gone. Technology is moving via leaps and bounds and just two years ago we didn’t have what we have today. Two years ago some of the technologies we have out there today were not even thought of yet. There’s more elements out there today with virtual reality to mix with and unfortunately it’s getting folks confused with where values are. I have made the comments that if I had to choose between being connected to Facebook or using a Bill Gates toilet, well the real world tells me I need a toilet first if you will:)
It was kind of funny today that I read an article that Google is doing to do a study “to learn how people work” so is that ironic? They seem to hire quite of them and after how many years in business they don’t know how people work? I read another article that said employees at Google can’t separate their work from their personal lives..hmmm..a little gray here too? It’s kind of funny they need a study as we all kind of know, and self included you have to shut it for a few hours, days, etc. to get your feet totally back in the real world.
I have never seen a time when people jump all over statistics like magpies. I’m not saying they are all bad by any means, but anymore it’s like the peanut gallery that jumps up and rolls off numbers over and over. A Los Angeles Time writer recently commented on that too saying “consumer are drowning in data” and we are. I see it and get tired of it, so add on a bunch of magpie type repeats and it’s like “gosh how do I get away from some of this”:) I like to read studies and statistics but I don’t want to be drowning in them with maximum doses in my face all the time. Some of the studies and articles are just pure bunk too. We end up with way too much quantitated justifications for things that are not true, usually because someone is trying to sell something. Now I’m not saying it’s all bunk because it is not but it gets mixed in with the good stuff, and duped you are.
If you are not running around like a magpie repeating news story stats like the news tells you to, what do you do, I guess folks check out. I'm not saying stat stories are not good as they are if done right but we think every stat story has value, does not. It's just like folks that think every stick of computer code written has value, it does not. I think is part of the reason people are checking out as they are either bored, feel helpless, or whatever. They can't tell what's important anymore and is it virtual or is the value real?
If you watch this video from physicist Dr. Sean Gourley you will understand that all in all you're just another bot int the wall...on the web wtih some Killer Algorithms.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/03/algorithms-that-exploit-sean-gour...
Values are constant, a given. Life supporting things are valuable.
I think what you are talking about is group manipulation. People talking to people is the only antidote to that. What is real. What do you know. What do I know. That has always been the stuff of conversations.
Thank you for sharing your time! :)
Desperation is a Mo Fo.No differant than a Wall St suit on cocaine. Class warfare, the Fox News go to jerk offs.
Anybody who works in America is a serf.
You see, unlike the political and economic elite, I don't think Americans are stupid. Misguided, controlled, and hopeless, yes, but not completely stupid.
People understand a raw deal. Why work hard anymore? There's virtually nothing you get by trying to climb these hierarchies except much more responsibility, and only a little bit more money, and virtually no extra money after you account for taxes and inflation. And what exactly will you do with this money? Buy a mansion and car and boat, all of which have significant maintenance costs? Put it in the stock market where the bankers can screw you at any moment? Put it in the bank where you get zero interest?
On the other hand, millions upon millions of Americans live on and on, with their clothing, food, health care, and shelter subsidized by the big daddy federal government.
And on top of that, you are completely replaceable by immigrants, as America wants unlimited immigration and wants to beat out China and India and become the most populous and crowded nation on the planet.
Do your protest this arrangement? Then you can go to prison to be screwed in the ass by a big buck, or join the military and get your brain messed up and your limbs blown off fighting the Arabs for the benefit of the oil companies.
It's a fool's game, people. Figure out your exit strategy while there is still time. And trust me, the celebrities and athletes and businessmen are not going to have it good much longer, they will consider themselves lucky if they can sell themselves on the street for a hundred bucks.
I have been sitting on the fence for a year or so. You almost have me convinced. I am fairly worn out. Where do I stuff the FRNs I get? Will their value be obliterated and my net worth be equal to that of the bus boy or grocery clerk soon? Do I keep the pace up or down shift. My Federal tax burden surprises me, not to mention the state, local and property taxes. Well, it has been an interesting journey.
@D-Fens:
Anybody who works in America is a serf.
Using feudal terminology, it may be true that most are serfs (peasants), but there are many who are highwaymen, merchants, peddlers, sheriffs (tax collectors), clergy, entertainers, military, etc.
You see, unlike the political and economic elite, I don't think Americans are stupid. Misguided, controlled, and hopeless, yes, but not completely stupid.
There are many who are not hopeless, that is for certain.
People understand a raw deal. Why work hard anymore?
Because hard work, or smart work better still, is its own reward.
There's virtually nothing you get by trying to climb these hierarchies except much more responsibility, and only a little bit more money, and virtually no extra money after you account for taxes and inflation. And what exactly will you do with this money? Buy a mansion and car and boat, all of which have significant maintenance costs? Put it in the stock market where the bankers can screw you at any moment? Put it in the bank where you get zero interest?
Materialism is a dead end. Screw the mansion, the luxury car, the boat. They are carrots meant to entice you into running on the hamster wheel. Break free of the mind control programming. Don’t “climb the hierarchies.” Every debt means more time, and stress, on the hamster wheel. Opt out of the banking system to the extent possible. Invest in you and your loved one’s souls. Make sure you and your loved ones know how to survive. Time with them is worth all the money in the world.
On the other hand, millions upon millions of Americans live on and on, with their clothing, food, health care, and shelter subsidized by the big daddy federal government.
They are mostly leeches, not contributors, so they have little self-worth. Those whose source of sustainment is the teat don’t have a high chance of survival when the teat runs dry.
And on top of that, you are completely replaceable by immigrants, as America wants unlimited immigration and wants to beat out China and India and become the most populous and crowded nation on the planet.
Not so. Illegal immigration is a problem for sure, but Americans have no excuse to not outsmart and outwork immigrants other than programmed laziness/brainwashing. The blame for this lies on the parents, their children, propaganda masquerading as media, entertainment, etc. There are very few, if any illegal immigrants who can create the kind of value that someone raised in the US has the potential to, if they only work hard and smart at it. Also, source for: “America that wants the most unlimited…populous…crowded nation on the planet.” Source?
Do your protest this arrangement? Then you can go to prison to be screwed in the ass by a big buck, or join the military and get your brain messed up and your limbs blown off fighting the Arabs for the benefit of the oil companies.
There are many methods of protest that are actually productive. Wasting time holding a sign with a bunch of aimless, disorganized strangers will never amount to anything. Stop believing in the system. Do what you and your family and friends can to minimally participate in the system. That includes not becoming the claws and teeth of the beast, whether forced or voluntary.
It's a fool's game, people. Figure out your exit strategy while there is still time.
It’s a fool’s game alright, an illusion. The best exit strategy one can have is survival- physical, mental and spiritual fitness. Attain useful knowledge, wisdom, hope, faith, survival skills, bartering skills.
And trust me, the celebrities and athletes and businessmen are not going to have it good much longer, they will consider themselves lucky if they can sell themselves on the street for a hundred bucks.
That day will come for sure. But by then bucks will have been to be revealed as worthless fiat, so barter will be king.
PS- I gave ya a greenie for sentiments, anyway.
I gave you a Greenie for Truth.
Spot on.
Greenie for all three of you
An excellent post!
I hope to have a view from a nice mountainside when it all begins to burn.
BS
A new low for Snyder and his contributions to ZH. What a despicable piece of sh!t.
He's a doosh,,,,after 6 years, enuf is enuf,
+1
" ...workers just don't care anymore... "
We are even hearing this about the United States in the Antipodes.
I have a friend who was telling me they used to travel regularly to the US, but they wont be anymore because of the crappy service and attitude they are now getting.
Everything from taxidrivers to domestic flightcrew, and hotel/serving staff.
Complete apathy, and/or surliness. Long delays, and lost luggage.
it's not just occasional anymore, it is the norm.
... Let alone the whole TSA business.
We are even hearing this about the United States in the Antipodes.
I have a friend who was telling me they used to travel regularly to the US, but they wont be anymore because of
See? I told you we were turning into France.
Atlas Shrugged - frozen trains
I read somewhere that in the depression of the 1870's, depressions bring on what it is called "torporness" i.e. lethargy, and we are indeed in a full blown depression, it is just being denied by everyone.
This is a subject I ponder everyday. After 30 years in the medical field I can honestly say I have never been so unhappy with my job. Every year management and regulatory agencies makes proclamations that increase workload and stress. Every year costs increase and we must find ways to do more with less even though patient infections are harder to treat and take more time to work up. Every year more and more people, who used to love their job, say they want to retire but can't.
I struggle because in reality I am paid relatively well and remind myself I should appreciate this. But, when you're on the phone with a screaming doctor with a critical patient or a coworker snaps at you over some frustration, you tend to forget this. To combat apathy or lack of connection with my patients, I try to every morning sit in my car for a few minutes to get my head straight. Sometimes I read the prayer of St Francis. Sometimes I picture the patients I will be working on are my family members. Sometimes I just meditate and listen to my breath. Anything to not succumb to a state of a lack of caring or empathy. Then I would truly lose who I am.
Miffed;-)
I understand completely what you mean.
There's only one way out: cut your hours worked (or how hard you work) and cut your lifestyle even more.
There's no other way, I honestly believe that. The most we can do is sort of gently tread water, and that's it. If you try to do more, you will exhaust yourself and surely drown.
After ten years working for animal pharma, I can relate Miffed, if not entirely at least somewhat. I too, make a good wage that provides for our needs.
That said, we continue to cut get our budgets cut to the bare bones and I spend so much fucking time reading up on all the bullshit SOP's and online "training" I don't even have enough time to do my actual job. I never thought I would miss swabbing plates and caring for animals to this extent.
Don't even get me started about all the BS "cultural awareness" crap we get spoon fed from corporate.
Miffed - Thank you for being you - I'm glad you're here
DFens is right - spend more time on your broader values
Thank you sharing such an accurate description of what we are facing
Also, retirement is one of those things that has been falsely sold - work is sharing your time - which we will all do until we can't
All it takes is one ass hole to spoil your day. And there are more than enough of them. Solution? Do your job and try your best to leave it behind when you head home.. Focus on the day you will stop working. Forget bigger houses and newer cars - they only impress people who you really don't want to know.
One worker, No cup
Kim Mitchell-Go For a Soda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwwV0xE70Ks (3:29)
And the people who do care, America's STEM workers, have had the shit pounded out of their job prospects and salaries by the H-1B's and various other cheap foreign labour scams. Instead of their hard work and ingenuity being rewarded in spades with a luxury lifestyle, they're left in the poorhouse. Worse, some go so far as to blame these Americans for their own predicament, claiming that they didn't keep their "skills" up to date.
As far as most people are concerned, it should all burn down, and be rebuilt upon a foundation of hard work, not just a bunch of financial elites taking outsized rewards for actually damaging the economy.
Increasingly, since at least the 1980's, C-Levels began to gut the number of actual producers, be they STEM, Sales, Support, while requiring these same producers to wear the hats and the workload of those they cut. This is besides the well known outsourcing overseas and elsewhere. Profits were better than ever, but the rewards only funnelled up to the C-Levels- with decreased or stagnant compensation for actual producers- and the future be damned.
Apathy, burnout and fear, of who Damacle's sword will fall upon next, are now the rule of the day for many corporate employees, STEM or otherwise.
Best to learn to independantly provide services to vertical industries and/or to horizontal industries that corporations and/or individuals absolutely require.
Develop the skills to provide something useful, learn to market it, sell it, build personal relationships in your community and abroad.
No need for apathy- think outside the box- take control rather than being controlled- get out of corporate America.
PS-rather than a seeking a "luxury lifestyle", seek to be self sufficient without luxuries. Rather, learn survival skills- hunting, trapping, gathering, farming, fighting and faith. The near future will require it.
+ 1
You found truth.
;D
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." -Matthew 7:7
Yeah. I agree. That is the breath of air which I need.
H1-B' are, I don't know, I start stuttering and jabbering uncontrollably when I think of it, and I live it everyday. There are well trained, hard working, American STEM workers getting fucked by this H1-B scam. The international corps and banks are not outsourcing, or offshoring but bringing the slaves right here to America claiming they can't find enough fucking workers. Yeah, that one really gets me pissed. Slave planet baby, that is where America is headed.
Almost seems like that was the zio-globalist plan all along.
s/
The irony is, most American STEM workers don't actually mind paying taxes. And don't really mind taking less than they're really worth to the economy as compensation. The problem is, the elites aren't even happy with that. There is literally nothing that can be done to satisfy them. I bet we could even offer up our virgin daughters and they still wouldn't be satisfied.
All great empires fall when they attack the producers. The Roman Empire. The Soviet Empire, and now the American empire.
The fish rots from the head. People are feeling trapped. Their leaders are corrupt. When you see no way out, you quit trying.
Absolutely. CEOs are making 100s of times more than the average schmoe so they don't give a shit anymore.
It's looks like a lot of people go to work just to steal things until they get caught. This article is a prime example of that behavior.
Dozens of baggage handlers likely involved in LAX theft ring: police - NY Daily News
" It's looks like a lot of people go to work just to steal things until they get caught."
Johnny Cash - One piece at a time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIuo0KIqD_E
Well, I left Kentucky back in '49
An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line
The first year they had me puttin' wheels on cadillacs
Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black.
One day I devised myself a plan
That should be the envy of most any man
I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand
Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired
But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired
I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand.
[CHORUS]
I'd get it one piece at a time
And it wouldn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is a round.
So the very next day when I punched in
With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends
I left that day with a lunch box full of gears
Now, I never considered myself a thief
GM wouldn't miss just one little piece
Especially if I strung it out over several years.
The first day I got me a fuel pump
And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk
Then I got me a transmission and all of the chrome
The little things I could get in my big lunchbox
Like nuts, an' bolts, and all four shocks
But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's mobile home.
Now, up to now my plan went all right
'Til we tried to put it all together one night
And that's when we noticed that something was definitely wrong.
The transmission was a '53
And the motor turned out to be a '73
And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone.
So we drilled it out so that it would fit
And with a little bit of help with an A-daptor kit
We had that engine runnin' just like a song
Now the headlight' was another sight
We had two on the left and one on the right
But when we pulled out the switch all three of 'em come on.
The back end looked kinda funny too
But we put it together and when we got thru
Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin
About that time my wife walked out
And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts
But she opened the door and said "Honey, take me for a spin."
So we drove up town just to get the tags
And I headed her right on down main drag
I could hear everybody laughin' for blocks around
But up there at the court house they didn't laugh
'Cause to type it up it took the whole staff
And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds.
[CHORUS]
I got it one piece at a time
And it didn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is around.
[Spoken] Ugh! Yow, RED RYDER
This is the COTTON MOUTH
In the PSYCHO-BILLY CADILLAC Come on
Huh, This is the COTTON MOUTH
And negatory on the cost of this mow-chine there RED RYDER
You might say I went right up to the factory
And picked it up, it's cheaper that way
Ugh!, what model is it?
Well, it's a fortynine, fifty, fifty one, fifty two, fifty three, fifty four, fifty five, fifty six, fifty seven, fifty eight, fifty nine automobile! It's a sixty, sixty one, sixty two, sixty three, sixty four, sixty five, sixty six, sixty seven, sixty eight, sixty nine, seventy automobile
Deprivation can lead to motivation
I saw this happen in south america but only recently understood it.
When boom times are over and people are in the downside of a kondratiev cycle, money gets tight, raises and benefits disappear, bosses expect more work for less pay, and optimism for advancement disappears for most people.
People treat their job exactly the same way their job treats them. Bad economic times engender bad attitudes.
Why should the average worker give a fuck in such circumstances?
Capital owners feel the pressure of demand reduction too. When they get desperate to maintain cash flow bad attitudes and corruption happen in the boss class too.
Is this really worse in America? 'We' aspire to be just like you.
Stick to the topic Bitchez.
I get a kick out of carrying some pennies in my pocket and when my bill comes I give the cashier a twenty, wait for them to enter that amount, and then hand them whatever the cents amount is in pennies, and watch their head explode as they try to figure out how much change to give me back. After a short wait, I will lean over the counter and whisper to them, try adding X cents, the amount I just gave you, to whatever it is the computer screen tells you I should receive. Then sit and watch again, as they desperately try to figure out how much I should receive back. They typically begin to get angry as I chuckle over their incompetence.
maybe 10 years ago I did the same thing at a fast food restaurant. I wanted to receive nothing but paper and a quarter in the change for my $10. The worker asked me how I did that, said that I was some kind of Einstein, and called over a co-worker to show him what I did. Like I pulled a fucking rabbit out of a hat?
This is not a new phenomenon. Like the poor, the idiots will always be among us. I doubt, however, that Jesus anticipated so many of them. The puppet masters on the other hand are and were relying on it (on both counts).
Down vote for enjoying creating a bad situation. Give a twenty - then wait - and the coins later.
Do you really need to create ill-will to feel superior?
You might need someone smarter than you someday. Or maybe not - since there is no one smarter than you?
Then why don't you step up to the plate, and fix everything, solve everyone's problems for them?
In following the comments, everybody sees what I see too. In the old days it was "Do it right the first time or don't do it at all." Now it's, "Fix everybodies mistakes before I get canned." As a once entrepeneur and now middle manager, it's a clusterfuck out there. I've got some employees who would rather be home playing X-Box on the big screen TV, or golfing, than actually paying attention to the details of their jobs. Some are adults with families no less, who have college graduate status. I sometimes refer to my job as "Adult Day Care." And the ones who are really over the edge I give a pink slip to. And they ask, "What did I do wrong?". I wonder sometimes why the hell they even applied for the job. They sounded good at the interview. I repetatively showed them the ropes and gave them some to find their way, and they aren't burned out or drugged, they're mostly just stupid! I'm at this job nearly five years now and every year it gets worse. I do have a few very good core people that take up the slack but that can't go on forever. They quit and find better paying work. They don't stick with a 1% pay increase and an extra load of somebody elses work. And finding new people is a nightmare. I dare say I wonder how some of them even found the place. And if there is ever a major natural or man made disaster in this country, some of these people I speak of won't make the week, let alone old age. It's as if they have lost the incentive completely or really just don't give a damn. I'm very close to retirement and when I take it am going to South America or somewhere. This place is really starting to suck. These dumb asses can have it.
Hear you.
We call it babysitting for adults.The quality of available hires has been getting steadily
worse for two decades now, with no improvement in the pool from the layoffs in 2008.
Somebody pissed in the gene pool, and mother nature is about to take her revenge.
destruction of nuclear family + effeminization of males + video games + US "education" system + media propaganda + relativist morals + entitlement attitude + lack of personal responsibility + drug abuse (pharmaceutical & illegal) + overconsumption of fast food + junk food = babysitting for adults.
On the bright side, there are still some who managed to navigate all this and measure up as producers rather than leeches.
Not one, not one single fact to back up Snyder's claim and yet apparently there is almost universal agreement here with Snyder. Read like a ridiculous stream of diatribes largely from a group of people who would be in a senior citizens center or retirement community. Judging from the comments I would guess most of the readers here are white and over 50.
'In my day, we had pride in what we did and if we did something we did it with integrity, honesty, and dedication' to which I say utter BS. Hell if there has been one constant in American is that huge number of Americans are almost always looking for the cheap and quick buck. Look at the amount we gamble every year on per capita compared to other places in the world.
Like having the same conservation with my 98-year grandmother who thinks the US is overspeding due to 'no good cheats on welfare' and 'foreign .nations we aid.' Disregard the benefits she gets via Medicare monthyl or the roughly $2100 in monthly SSI and VA benefits from my deceased grandfather's service. She 'earned that.'
Did you walk uphill to school ten miles both ways? The working and productive are having more taken by the lazy. Your 98 yr old should be able to have help. Maybe not quite as much as she gets, but I'd rather help her than some lazy thirty something POS who takes 2100 a month with all the fixins. Too many people are gaming the system and that will eventually end.
Try having this conversation with almost anyone on why the US is going broke to elderly transfer payments to seniors in the form of Medicare, SSI, and Medcaid who single biggest expense is institutionalized assisted living facilities for the elderly and a defense budget that is really over $1T when you add up the components hunkered away in other depts and you go nowhere.
Overinvesting in defense and the elderly to the detriment of our physical and human resources is a recipe for disaster yet that is exactly what the US is doing.
In fact, when I bring this up on here it gets repeatedly down-voted.
Call me a softy, but I'd rather we ratchet our defense WAY back. We know that won't happen. We have pissed off everyone and those who aren't pissed are scared of us so given the chance they would pile on. This is what happens when you try to be the biggest bull in the pen. All the other studs are waiting for us to drop our guard. We will. It'll be a bad day when the world stands up and goes for our throat.
Your Grandmother did earn that. She paid into social security and the government stole it, now they call it an entitlement.
Your grandfather was in the service, he had a contract with the military and medicare is an insurance policy that many people paid on for many years before they were eligible to recieve benefits at age 65. You are simply full of shit.
Another delusional senior. The amount my grandmother paid in SSI taxes even if you indexed and gave her above average market rate of return is no where near the amount she has now drawn for the past 33 years. It is even more extreme for Medicare.
Everyone's work has been stolen. We are all at fault for not recognizing the extent of the theft for so long. Pointing fingers at other people who have also had their work stolen doesn't do any good.
We the People need to stick together, stop the theft, pick up the pieces, and go on about our lives.
I guess I'm one of them, been robbing my global multinational blind...hell I'm even stealing shit I'll never use, some of it I'm not even sure what it is. Fuck it.
Welfare doesn't pay all that bad around these parts, and as an added bonus I'll not only be starving the beast, but working it to death as well.
waterboard these lazy bastards ... then fire them
Iv`e been water boarded .......... its not so bad.
And then there was the guy who started a fire on the USS Miami nuclear submarine causing $700MM worth of damage because he was looking for an excuse to leave work early.
Low pay, no benefits, get treated like shit, so who would want a stinking job anyway?
Turn off their Facebook and Twitter... they'll care.
Time for a hypothetical, boys and girls. Which of the following groups benefits MORE from a society of people who believe, regardless of reality, that work is itself virtuous and that hard work pays off? Is it: A) The top 20 percent, comprised of the elite, the superrich, the rich, the top level managers, the directors, the owners, the leaders, the rulers, the bourgeoisie, etc. 2) The bottom 80 percent, comprised of everyone else If you answered A, congratulations. If you answered B, you probably went to a government school. Inculcating a love of and reverence for work is an absolute no-brainer in any society in which people have to work for a living. It's called legitimation. Meanwhile those who are are the most materially successful do, and have always done, the least amount of labor. The thing is, this belief actually paid off, if only for a century or two and only in certain cosmically lucky locales (in recent modern history), but as I and others have explained elsewhere, that was a matter of exploiting various non-human energy sources, and then of technological-scientific 'progress' and the birth of the credit economy, which was necessary in order to allow abject peasants to afford both these new energy resources and the things they power, and had the added bonus of recreating a poor society of peasants and serfs into one of middle-class serial-debtor freemen (this is generally referred to as "progress"). So what is the love of labor in a society of obligate labor? Amor fati, made morbid and masochistic by its promoters -those who, of course, can afford not to labor. Pretty simple stuff. In contemporary terms, it's "herd pacification", like a shepherd protecting his flock, he's really just protecting his livelihood.
PS: Ecclesiastical and lay manorial lords of Europe used to wonder why the serfs - who in many places by law worked from sunset to sundown, everyday except feast days and holidays, with a total of 1.5 hours of break per day for the lucky - were so "lazy", "shiftless", "indolent", etc. Will we ever solve this mystery?
Here's a hypothetical....actually, not at all...I'll just say it. You're a dipshit.
Work itself is virtuous.
I'm not saying "working for someone else" is virtuous though it can be. You can fell gratification through building a home for someone, a car for someone, etc. BUT, when you labor over a task and work hard to complete said task and generate a reward for yourself, through payment or non-payment, that work is very fulfilling.
So my question to you: are you suggesting that everyone sit home and paint and create music and live in virtual worlds, building virtual societies, whilst living on the government dole. I suggest we cut off the government spigot of handouts and see how many people think "work" isn't something to be proud of any longer. Come to me when you're hungry, I expect labor in exchange for food...not some hypothetical question or poem.
Labor in exchange for food, or your cute daughter.
In tight economic times women discover a new source of capital.
Vaginas are monetized in tough times. Women in the united states are turning semi pro (in the mongering lingo) at an increasing rate.
Semi pros abound throughout Latin America.
Vaginas are definitely monetized...in good times and bad. Though we're in a supposed recovery, even in Vegas, brothels have seen profits turn to the downside. I have NOTHING against homosexuality, but many people might prefer my handsome son over my cute daughter. I suspect, during extreme rough times, son or daughter....once SHTF and jails open the flood gates, it won't matter.
Carl, you and I should go out trolling some time :)
There was once a concept in this country called "Meritocracy". The few who still practice this are successful entrepeneurs and the many who don't are serfs to the "Meritocritous". Getting off your ass and caring about what you do, how you do it, and enjoying it as not just a job, but a profession, is becoming a lost art. The motivation to succeed is few and far between now a days. There are a lot of really good people out there, struggling against a tsunami of corporate bias toward them, but they are few as well. The system is broken. It will take change that we simply do not have at our disposal now. And when the light at the top can be seen from the bottom, the very bottom, it will take generations of people to climb out into it. We eldsters were promised much. We took it for granted that there was "honesty", "integrity" and "trust" above us. That was our mistake. We took it for granted that it would be "that" way forever. We were wrong. We assumed that we would never have to look back. Now we look with some very real regret, and also with forboding to the future of a nation which has been "lost" for quite a while. No one of us can predict the future, but from my pespective, your 80% doesn't look good. It's going to be a hard, hard lesson we learn. But it's one of those things about history after a fall. You either become a footnote, a chapter, or a book. Which it is, is anyones' guess. Better start "thinking" about what to do about you and family. If it's not too late already.
I don't want to give details. I was just told by my boss that something I was getting ready to do (something positive that would do something to give someone some acknowledgement [nominating someone for an award]) was going to make him look bad (like an "SOB"), and that I should not do it. Turns out the person I was nominating may be getting fired.
Lately at work, I feel like a work unit and not a person. This feeling is recent, in the last year. We are getting firings and pink slips everywhere. Shaken down...
LOL. Last place I worked they gave out monthly awards to about 10% of the team, one guy had just won one of these valuable trophies before he quit with no notice in total and justifiable disgust. Ninety days later the entire project was terminated along with about forty people of the fifty people involved, about half contractors. The whole company had just been bought/merged so the layoffs included a couple of middle-managers, but afaik none of the big wheels.
The whole project was highly dysfunctional, that was obvious to me within a few days of my joining, and the most dysfunctional element of all is how hard everyone worked not to notice. They didn't even care enough to not care about things, it was like the zombie apocalypse with cubicles, like the Obamacare website project but without the care.
Best wishes
Michael Snyder, we get it (most of us do). This world sucks. Little respect, no integrity. I've read every single one of your articles. I agree with all. Take a break though....relax. Go on vacation. Join the sloths and zombies for a while. Those who don't see what's happening by now, never will. You're a great writer...we already know the problem(s)....write about solutions.
The solution comes in a generation or two.
Those who are not raised with high expectations and are surprised to the upside become virtuous and work hard.
Those who were spoiled by the previous 30 year credit boom and now face ugly surprises to the downside will lose their virtue and become apathetic.
It is all a matter of when you are born in the long cycle.
My kids in high school and their cohorts are generally huge supporters of liberty (eg Ron Paul) and can't stand Obama, John Kerry, Boehner, the entire sick system. In fact, the internet has improved the efficiency and revolutionalized so many things that effect our daily lives, but the "OLD GOVERNMENT" has not changed one bit. They are just consuming the productivity of our young, and they know it. These kids are smart and they can't wait for the older generation to just die off and fuck off. The new generation of kids will set things straight, so taxes are kept close to home, and government is completely overhauled to enter a new era of efficiency and true representation. Sending two senators to Washington DC to enjoy spoils of special interest and foreign lobby such as aipac which are there to serve a foreign nation -- those years are numbered.
As a child in the 60's I thought the same thing your teenagers do now. I thought that once the hippies, rock n' rollers, etc. of the era were old enough to take over, things would be great. You see what we really got.
The kids who grew up in the 60s turned out to be the most ruinous, moronic, selfish idiots in history. Look what happened under their leadership. Years from now there will be books written about YOU (ya dumbass). No, I think great efficiencies thanks to streamlining government functions via the internet are the next frontier in making sure the mistakes of the 60s generation are relegated to ignominious history.
I think you missed my point.
"No, I think great efficiencies thanks to streamlining government functions via the internet are the next frontier in making sure the mistakes of the 60s generation are relegated to ignominious history"
You can wish in one hand, and crap in the other hand- see which one gets filled.
I hear you 100%, in the 1960's we saw peace & love, and all cried for a better time,
During that time Little Bush and poltical pals were smoking pot and giving each other blow-jobs in texas, when they weren't snorting cocaine.
Then jump ahead 20+ years later when the 'drop-out' generation took power and you have Feinstein, Pelosi, Bush, .. The worst fucking KILLER's in USA history, and liars to boot.
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Well the INTERNET fix the problem? FUCK NO. Just getting worse, as a computer scientist, this shit 'internet' is not new, ... just shit getting faster, but its just a hamster in a cage, running faster, but nobody with a 'heart' is at the HELM.
Now today it's completely different than 1960's, then it was 'peace & love', now its 'fuck and post' ( youtube ). Narcisism is on the RISE;
We all know, as students of the great depression that only when the USA hits bottom and has a total reset, and 1/2 the population kills the rotten half, and then and only then might change come about.
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The 1960's we saw assholes like NIXON, now we see old hippy bitches like HILLARY as HITLER, Is HILLARY any different than NIXON in his prime? In lust for power? FUCK NO.
FBI any different now than 1960's under GAY EDGAR HOOVER? FUCK NO.
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Will CHELSEA CLINTON KILL? FUCK YES
Will Rand Paul go to the right of NETANYAHU? FUCK YES
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We need a reset MAO & STALIN had their reset, where they washed out 10's of millions of assholes, the USA has NOT had a reset since the civil-war.
It's coming.
Have you signed your kids up for healthcare? The marketplace is open! The deadline is today so make sure they all are signed up ok? YOU HEAR ME? SIGN THEM UP FOR HEALTHCARE BECAUSE IT IS A GREAT DEAL AND IT'S THE LAW. ACA NEEDS THEM.
Ghengis Kahn said loyalty was a two way street.
...and then he raped and killed her.
I doubt much of this is new, read about the late Roman empire and they didn't even have video games, but when you unemploy and underemploy large segments of your population wtf do you expect.
So what are you saying,back in 1981 when I was 18 I worked with a bunch of people who didn't give a shit either ?
Please for the love of god stop posting shit from Michael Snyder. He is the absolute WORST.
Ditto. His crap stories are SO BAD that it should be obvious to everyone...
We got downvoted by Michael and his mom...
Well the dollar is worth less than a quarter, what would one expect.
Take it from Michael Snyder the bald pot-bellied schmuck who writes from Bangkok (where he may just have a few male consorts).
I run a company and don't find this at all. In fact there is so much unemployment today, that when you hire someone they will rarely take any days off, and they work their ass off.
Productivity for us is at an all-time high. We do lose the occasional worker but there are 20 more waiting to take his place.
Hardly the environment this perpetual dickhead author (who ZH should dump asap) describes from his Klong Toey apartment.
You dare introduce clarity, logic, connections to reality to ZeroHero doom porn?
For my company the worst days by far, in terms of putting up with shit employees, was in the bubble period, before the housing crash. Like I said, we are at an all time high for productivity. Rather than hire new workers we ask people to come in early and give them $50 bonus for hard work, etc. Things are really ticking along and our products are doing well thanks to our employees. We partner with a larger company and I am at their facility a few days every month, and the same thing goes for them. Many of their employees are knee deep in hard labor, and getting the job done like never before. Much of this is due to the fact that jobs are so damn hard to come by. It's the opposite of what Michael Boonchai Snyderpanich authors from a perv shack in Bangkok.
Actually I am not sure if Snyder is based in Bangkok because there is another perpetual doomer who writes articles from there and I get them mixed up.
Marc FABER IS in Chiang-Mai, far from Khlong Toey.
FYI for those not in the know, Khlong Toey is where the poorest of the poor rat's in Bangkok live, and famous for old white men to go find little boy's for love.
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Should not get the two mixed up, and Faber writes good shit, trouble with the articles on ZH, its never from him, just ZH sounds bites from an interview.
On the other hand Michael Synder say's it all, you can stop right there, hell ZH may very well just put a "MICHAEL SYNDER" on the OP-POST..
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But let's talk real, ... when did any body ever anywhere be happy in a SHITTY MIN-WAGE job??? Never IMHO.
The USA has always been a 3rd world prison colony and a society of low IQ hairlips, the mis-information is that at any time there was greatness, there was not.
In summary the USA is a nation of "MICHAEL SYNDERS", and that my ZH tribal pal's tell's all you need to know.
I know Faber is in Chiang Mai. The one in Bangkok I am thinking of is Tony Cartalucci. POS author.
Michael T. Synder could just as well be doing JEEBUZ TV in OKC, Why is he doing the jebuz xmas biz in BKK?
The Zio-Christian-Fascism force is strong with this one.
time to BAN the 2nd coming of douche-bag bigot f_s.....1,2....666 bye bye...
Magnum, you may be meeting quotas, but the fact remains, unemployment is high. Almost 50% are getting assistance, people are hiring lawyers to get them on disability. They are scraping by on disability and doing odd jobs for a little spending money. The number of people on assistance is growing every day.
Wow, what some funny money can achieve.
What kind of jobs do you offer, that suddenly well educated people that know how to behave and are reliable and resilient have become the norm?
Fascinating how a non existant upbringing, or upbringing by the neomarxist TV, can create perfect employees...
All that counts for you, is that your pockets are filled. And I can guarantee you, that your fantastic Brave New World employees think the same. And you only see, what you see...
TV? Most people don't watch it. We haven't had a cable tv account for about four YEARS. Kids watch Netflix and youtube videos and read stuff on their own, what they want to read. My son is a news junkie. The people at work seem to follow the trend. Again, the people raised in the 60s are the TV sheep. New generation isn't buying the NBC sitcoms. Find out the demographic hooked on Dancing With My Star. Probably people over 50 raised on TV.
Netflix and movies ARE "TV".
And now back to your regularly scheduled PROGRAM.
Think of third world countries and kidnappings and open robberies/crimes occur.
When it gets real bad those gated communities don't matter much when the little people have AK47s and RPGs.
When it comes apart the countries like Russia and China will be happy to supply the arms.
How to destroy a population: take away hope for the future, and give them something for nothing. Why care about anything then? Why try?
What's funny is the elites seem to think they'll live on private islands or gated communities and get good service and good food and good products unavailable to the wretched commoners, as though they can be insulated from the effects of the dumbing down, the apathy, the sloth and the incompetence in the society they have manufactured.
Idiocracy - the Early Years.
pride costs money and no one paying for pride
no more.
you have to understand that the institutions
of government and business adhere to a faux money meme
and communicate semiotically to the subordinates through
such things as uniforms, allocation of workspace and
other status identifying "acceptable norms" one message.
that message is "the authority determines your place and
worth in this environment." in this environment how does
one develope pride or appreciation when they are rewarded
in the most minimal way?
YOU’RE HIRED!!!
Of course people are lazy these days. After seeing how fucked up and broken the system is, why bother trying? If you're not one of the oligarchs, the government will find some way to steal your wealth, shut down your business, tap your phones, and throw you in jail. If you get a job, you lose all of your unemployment benefits. If you get a raise, your health care subsidy might disappear. The whole system is designed to punish people who are silly enough to try to become successful.
70 million Americans are on mind-altering drugs and the other 37 M of the civilian workforce are unemployed
300m+ Americans are on a mind-altering drug called teevee.
Its fuckin bad. Anyone can see walking out their door. Heads out of ass.
That black guy is related to Bummer
It could have been his son.
The workers not only don't care--they get triple-pissed when you point this out to them.
As George Orwell famously said, there is no such thing as service. There is only the illusion of service.
And in a service economy, we only have the illusion of an economy.
The same factors that prevent people from hanging their politicians and all the bankers in the streets are the ones that produce this behavior.
How many bankers you murder today?
http://whale.to/b/casey_h.html
Maybe in the U.S. because Vatican's workers (guards) do care:
"Con Men" Caught Trying to Enter VATICAN BANK With Over 3 TRILLION Euros in "FAKE BONDS"
And this flashback from two years ago:
Italian police seize $6 trillion of fake U.S. bonds
... and from 5 years ago:
Italy Seizes $135 BILLION Of US Bonds
Its something I have been thinking aboot for some time. They have a word for it. Nihilism
http://thinkingaboot.blogspot.ca/2011/06/new-nihilism-becomes-meme.html
I have written a short story describing the beginning of a journey wa are all about to embark on.
Subject the battle between Nihilism and organization. The Nihilist are winning, and winning by billions. But its the organalizist that are reaping all the rewards. The organized ones are manufacturing Nihilist. It is the perfect divide and conquer.http://thinkingaboot.blogspot.ca/2013/12/battle-between-nihilism-and.html
You will need seatbelts but how do you strap in?
If you focus only on income distribution you miss the point entirely.
Ofcourse in Plutocracies income inequality is always a problem, but the "nihilism" you descirbe, is a result of the destruction of the fundamentals the respective societies were built on.
In the case of the White countries it is the destruction of culture by neo-Marxist jewish Frankurt-school. This program is nothing but a total war on the Aryan societies and every aspect of our culture has been under attack since.
The moral foundations of our societies have been totally destroyed und turned upside down.
Our European high culture has been replaced planfully and intentionally with "modern art".
Our families and their foundations have been dissolved. The way how women and man managed to live together a whole life to bring up their children, has been destroyed. Our women have become more like men than women. We men have become femenized and most western men today have so less self-confidence, that they do everything to please women and after a few years are wondering, why they earn no respect from their wifes. Our children do not even know anymore, what the difference between a man and a woman is and White parents are so full of guilt, that they don't even know what is right and what is wrong. Most White women also have been completely stripped off their beautiful natural warmth.
Instead of the responsibility of the person, the Jewish Marxist Freudian poison of separating the guilt from the person, if it is declared ill, or blaming the society for wrongdoing, has turned things upside down.
Individualism and Liberalism have replaced responsibility for the community and ethical rules for ourselfes. Did I say community? That's ecatly what should be destroyed...
The White human should no longer feel as being a part of a people and race, but instead of being an individual. Community is evil, individualism is good! For those that since 3000 years are living everywhere as minority that sticks together. If you have your own "religion" and identity, then destroying the majority's indentiy and will to exist as community, serves the interest of the minority.
So why are you wondering? It's the most total war ever waged and the biggest genocide ever is only one component of this total war of annihilation from the Synagogue of Satan. The trail of blood already leads to many cultures that have become it's victim.
The plan how he existed already 1912 (25 years before Hitler threw out the Jews, that formed 50 years later the Frankfurt-school):
“We must realize that our party’s most powerful weapon is racial tension. By pounding into the consciousness of the dark races, that for centuries they have been oppressed by whites, we can mold them into the program of the Communist Party. In America, we aim for several victories. While inflaming the Negro minorities against the whites, we will instill in the whites a guilt complex for their supposed exploitation of the Negroes. We will aid the Blacks to rise to prominence in every walk of life and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige, the Negro will be able to intermarry with the whites and will begin the process which will deliver America to our cause.”
-Jewish Playwright Israel Cohen,
A Radical Program For The Twentieth Century, 1912. Also in Congressional Record , Vol. 103, p. 8559, June 7, 1957, by Rep. Thomas Abernathy.
Is there an App that will read this for me?
IMHO
Perhaps sloth in the workplace began in ernest when desktop computers were introduced, which served as much to distract as they were legitimate tools? When the World Wide Web took root into our homes and the workplace, it also sprouted tendrils that reached deep into the human psyche. Technology as a distraction has been further amplified by the development smart mobile devices and small-talk oriented social media sites. With such a framework for time disposal in place, when a populace becomes increasingly anxious over let's say, economic decline due to diminishing resource quality, the clash of political leaders over resources, or the house of cards as manifest in finance, banking and fiat currencies... Well, such anxieties might tend toward toward escapism, people becoming immersed in the cyberworld to seek out answers or solutions, or simply as a means of psychological refuge. The escape hatch is there, and I'd say people are using it. The problem is, it doesn't offer any real, physical insulation from real world problems. :-P
And ease up on the softserve guy you raycis, he's not the first to do that and he won't be the last, and I saw you drinking from the milk carton and putting it back in the fridge.
Is really anone surprised, if pursue of happiness and liberalism with his individual rights stands above everything and authority, duty and responsibility is bad, therefore all cultural unwritten laws "successfully" destroyed by Neo-Marxism, that such societies disintegrate and fall apart?
That's the goal of the whole transformation, sheeple.
Authority that destroys the individual also destroys responsibility, and vice versa.
Individual people matter. They are the only thing that matters - authority is useless without them.
You confuse power with authority.
Community is evil, individualism is good! Only for those that for 3000 years have been living among other people as minority, a minority that sticks together and has it's own rules and identity. Destroying the majority's identity and it's will to exist as community and transform it into a conglomerate of individuals, serves the interests of this minority - but destroys the majority.
Are you happy about the White genocide?
I'm 66, living near the bottom of the food chain, and I see evidence of this "I don't-give-a-shit" attitude everywhere-- including the part time job I have in the casino business.
If work and family are not important what is your raison d'etre?
Why work when the banks and government work together to siphon off your wealth?
They are parasites and make their living off of people that actually produce something.
Not enough data to support the conclusion.
I am by no means a big fan of Jimmy Carter, but when I read parts of his famous 'malaise' speech, it seems he was on to a few thing way back in 1979 that are just as true today. He could see the problems, just had wrong solutions.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/ca...
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"I know, of course, being president, that government actions and legislation can be very important. That's why I've worked hard to put my campaign promises into law -- and I have to admit, with just mixed success. But after listening to the American people I have been reminded again that all the legislation in the world can't fix what's wrong with America. So, I want to speak to you first tonight about a subject even more serious than energy or inflation. I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy.
I do not mean our political and civil liberties. They will endure. (well, he was wrong about that one) And I do not refer to the outward strength of America, a nation that is at peace tonight everywhere in the world, with unmatched economic power and military might.
The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.
The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America.
The confidence that we have always had as a people is not simply some romantic dream or a proverb in a dusty book that we read just on the Fourth of July.
It is the idea which founded our nation and has guided our development as a people. Confidence in the future has supported everything else -- public institutions and private enterprise, our own families, and the very Constitution of the United States. Confidence has defined our course and has served as a link between generations. We've always believed in something called progress. We've always had a faith that the days of our children would be better than our own.
Our people are losing that faith, not only in government itself but in the ability as citizens to serve as the ultimate rulers and shapers of our democracy. As a people we know our past and we are proud of it. Our progress has been part of the living history of America, even the world. We always believed that we were part of a great movement of humanity itself called democracy, involved in the search for freedom, and that belief has always strengthened us in our purpose. But just as we are losing our confidence in the future, we are also beginning to close the door on our past."
God bless Jimmy Carter. He was the last respectable President. All who followed have been stuffed suit puppets at best, at worst war criminals.
1. When you are a student, learning is essentially your "job". We've all seen the depths of depravity that has lead to.
2. JOB = Just Over Broke.
3. Lincoln's war did away with chattel slavery and made us all wage slaves!
We already have widescale rationing. Its called fiat currancy.
We already have widescale rationing. Its called fiat currancy.
Im a bit tired of all this knocking the Deep State(DS). Im tired of reading about people wanting to wake up the masses and mobilise against them. Yes thiers is a global hegemony hellbent on our destruction, I dont need evidence any more its obvious.
I beleive the present economic system whereby large amounts of workers bottom feed a cut of their wealth to the top - has ended. With automation/ 3d printing etc your average DS will some day soon have no need for factories full or workers to obtain his new Bugatti Veryon but will simply press a button and a molecular printer will print one off in the basement of his house. So whats to do with all these pointless people. Also at some point in this collapse/post-industrial/technological-singularity all need to forcibly control those that are left will vanish. They elite will retire to hilltops/ private islands/rugged coastlines and the like and will scarcely bother those few that are left. In fact once things have 'died' down they might even pop round to for a coffee and a chat.
The problem is who are we trying to educate/liberate here. The vast majority of people in this world are either too dumb to care or smart enough to understand yet have chosen to cynically play along in the currently failing system.
the DS are there for a reason and thats because they are smarter than us, they prosper only through the mass idiocy of this planets inhabitants who think they have the right to demand every material comfort the natural carrying capacity of this planet can ill afford to provide them. we are arelike animals that en mass display a limited pallete of base emotions such as greed jealousy/ arrogance and aggression.
The point here is that if those Gerogia Guidestones with the ominous prophesy of 500million people left are right then how will the post collapse demographics pan out and can some accomodation with the DS eventually be made. rather than calling on the mob to revolt we should be ENTERING A CONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE with the DS and let the mob go F**k itself. At the end of Doc Strangelove remember the thing about down in the bunker with young girls kick starting the breeding programme. Well I think there is some sort of truth here only, the DS on its own does not constitute a working population for this planet after the fall so as well as pretty girls a much wider range of symbiotic relationships will be needed.
Lets do the numbers.
Total world population 7000m
Deep State ( for family connections private armies/ staff etc lets say 3%)
3% of 7000m = 210m
That leaves 290m other people to enter the ark and a lot of people dead. Im sorry if this is offensive but its the sort of manner of speaking that the DS Im sure are accustomed to . Thats why they are in charge, they dont get hysterical.
Lets say regular visitors to zerohedge (1.2m per month) times 150 (their natural community group) thats 180million. So theres plenty of room for the people that actually give a shit.
So what do we have to trade?
Well when the DS come up of there bunkers the planet will have to roll back all the strip malls speculative office developments, vast grids of mcmansions, powerstations roads bridges, infact all the wealthe creating vehicles the DS dont need anymore. So we could do with loosing pretty much the whole built environment and take the world back to some pastoral idyll.
I have a vision of a new type of community of 'earth workers' that will artfully embroider the brutal neofeudalism that we all have to look forward to. Imagine you are one of the DS for a second. Do you not enjoy Nature do you not enjoy wholesome food, do you not enjoy art. What a sad prospect for the DS that they will share the earth with people like themselves and their security details!!. I see these earth workers as mostly dismantlers and gardeners but also artists and poets that will work together with the DS to bring the Earth Back from the brink. This is how humanity will unite ( and quitely forget about the genocide that just happened )
Synder needs to get some "25 Things Going OK" stories written. I appreciate knowing what to avoid, but,
Fuck this doom porn.
Hey, things have always been fucked up. There are just more people on the spaceship Earth, so there is more fucked-upness.
Humanity goes through more-noble and less-noble periods also.
Clean your own storefront.
Be the solution.
Carry On.
The less Snyder writes, the better off we'll all be.
The only reason for people to care about the work they do is if they care about the people who care about the work they do, and the only reason for them to care about those people is if those people care about them. Once the disconnect is in place the system crashes and there is no way to recover it. That is where we are today.