Lessons from a Commie

[house_pundit]

Many of you may not know, but part of my work involves editing computer-generated video and audio transcripts for captioning. I get some really interesting files across my desk sometimes, and one of them not too long ago was of an interview with the scion of a wealthy industrialist

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[unixronin]

There are still 6 percent of people who are not the best guy for the job, it's still the same larger range of people that spend a much higher than average part of their lives in that 6 percent at any one time. At any one time, there are still 6 percent losing. And they're the same folks.

They're twice as good as they were before. They're genuinely less flawed people. They're as good as lots of people who currently have jobs and are doing jobs in reality today. It's obviously not that they're to blame for their flaws and could do just fine if only they'd behave better.

At least a large part of it is that somebody has to lose, or we have no game.
How much of this, though, is because we've put so much effort over so many centuries into structuring so much of our civilization as a zero-sum game where someone has to lose in order for someone else to win?

For liberals? Your spending is way beyond self-destructive. Your environmental solutions are way beyond self-destructive. Approve some damn refineries and wells and nuke plants and coal

[mrmeval]

Government doesn't fix problems. You've cited the reason.

[unixronin]

Unfortunately, yeah. Every problem you FIX is one less campaign issue you have for use next election.

[mrmeval]

But they fix so many! Why are there still starving unemployed people?

[wyrdling]

this is one of the best deconstructions of these issues i've seen. helps clarify a lot of points i have spent a heck of a lot of time tryng to explain to people

[skellington]

So just talking about unemployment for a moment

[unixronin]

Because if someone is unlucky enough to pick a couple of wrong jobs in a row (and statistically, someone will draw that short straw), they might spend 30% of a 2 year period unemployed.
Or a hell of a lot longer.  cymrullewes has been out of work since C P Blouin laid her off in January 2009, because there is simply no hiring happening in the fields she has skills in within a feasible commute distance.  (There was a short hiatus with a contract in Ohio that really didn't work out well because she couldn't cope with being that far from home and family for an extended period.)  Prior to getting hired by Datapipe last October, I'd been out of work since being laid off by Red Hat in August 2001, with the exception of four months working on a contract in San Jose that very nearly fell through altogether, which would have left me stranded in San Jose and basically penniless.

If the economy really, truly REQUIRES that 6% of people be unemployed at any given time in order to function, and we can't figure out any way around that, then maybe we should

[skellington]

I was very much not going into a discussion here of the larger business cycle (i.e. unemployment rising much about the "minimum" level.) And I think that's what has been impacting your wife for the last 2 years

[riteturn]

It just isn't PC to say some people are defective. We are in the era of Special Olympics where everybody is a winner and nobody loses.
Well some people are too damn dumb to function on a job. There are very few jobs they can do and the number is getting smaller all the time. I'm talking about people who can't take your order at McDonald's with a picture cash register. Who can't count back change or know that if the register tells them to give back $4 change on a $5 bill for four items something is wrong.
Jesus said the poor are with you always. He didn't go into why, but human nature was the same two thousand years ago.
Some people are able and unwilling to work. They are what my friends call the FreeShitArmy. The sort like the woman who gushed that Obama was going to pay her mortgage and buy her gas.
If he had stayed IN business he could have championed those who want to work and be productive and the laws and custom discriminate against them.
The young man has wasted his life and patrimony on those least worthy of his help.

[thatgoddess]

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