David Ess
Scraping Paint
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- Dec 4, 2020
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RTF...looks like my new policy is a good one. Glad I didnt waste time on 10 citations.
All a matter of perspective. I suspect you are in that raise the min wage camp. Forget the obvious inflation in everything if that happens, expect your dockage to go through the roof. Our new contracts are coming with the marinas right to nearly double the cost if it happens, mid contract year. Truck rates wont be doubling. Your retirement wont be doubling, or any other revenue stream. If you want to commit financial suicide for yourself, be my guest... dont drag the rest of us along please.Wifey B: Amazing we have no problem getting people who want to work. Could it be we pay and provide decent benefits?
Just pondering the thought of critical mass in humanity. Are we there? Im not talking about mass starvation and global illnesses I'm talking about 1st world critical mass. Were I live there are zero water front lots for sale, they have all been bought. In my work place (bulkheads/piers) its very hard to obtain material for regular jobs and almost impossible for large jobs. When I go eat, last night for example the resturants are so busy they don't answer the phone and when they do its 40 minutes for take out, there is an hour 1/2 wait for a table.
I see Texas in chaos (no power, food or water) because of a winter storm.
New SUV's are north of 70k and you can't find one for sale,
I think the next bubble is going to be upper-middle middle class people! Not sure what the bubble will do but the zero interest rate policy has driven an entire class of folks, myself included, into a area of spending ability they shouldn't have.
Just some observations
How do y'all have so many people over 100, is it not cold up there? Is it the Molson beer? haha just kidding. I've been boating and drinking all day. Cheers
I dont want to hear about people that dont have what they need. They dont have it because they dont want to work for it. I have downsized my business, tired of trying to find people that want to work. A local marine outfit stipped doing recoveries, cant get people tgat want to work. Got som A/C parts from the only guy with a 100ton travel lift for 500 miles... he is around 80 and doing the majority of every yard job he takes himself... cant get help that wants to work.
So yea...if "Joe Person" doesn't care enough to work for it i sure as he$$ am not gonna worry for him. And if i have to work less to not have a profit to avoid being taxed to death to feed that same person, so be it. With what i have and skills i have for under the table work, ill survive... because i have worked and learned the skills i need. If "joe person" is too lazy, or feels too entitled to do that, i firmly wish Darwin's law upon him. As with wifey b I make no appologies fir my beliefs or attitudes.
Wifey B: Amazing we have no problem getting people who want to work. Could it be we pay and provide decent benefits?
Tiny, local example, I have heard plenty of other examples that slam dunk yours.
Sure some jobs are "choice".... but I bet you don't hire everyone who applies.
Some people have to take jobs they want but aren't remotely suited for.
Wifey B: Couldn't possibly hire all who apply. Way too many. Can't even hire all good applicants. We only have jobs for 13,000 or so. Yes, we support a higher minimum wage, thinking it shouldn't go decades without rising. Our minimum wage was $15 but goes to $16 with Costco's increase. Many major employers, many times our size, now at $15.
However, we can't hire those who haven't gotten the necessary education. All we can do is encourage them to get it.
They say that the world population curve is flattening, and will stop at about 10, or 10.5 billion or so, then decrease. Most peoples wives and daughters dont have as many kids as their grannies did. Even in third world countries thats the case. As women get more education, more freedoms, more access to birth control, etc, they have less kids. Indeed, many countries are already at less than replacement values, muchless overpopulating.
Its pretty much just some left wingers who resent people.
https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/TOT/900Link to what the "real demographers" say, please. I want to know more about this.
Just pondering the thought of critical mass in humanity. Are we there? Im not talking about mass starvation and global illnesses I'm talking about 1st world critical mass. Were I live there are zero water front lots for sale, they have all been bought. In my work place (bulkheads/piers) its very hard to obtain material for regular jobs and almost impossible for large jobs. When I go eat, last night for example the resturants are so busy they don't answer the phone and when they do its 40 minutes for take out, there is an hour 1/2 wait for a table.
I see Texas in chaos (no power, food or water) because of a winter storm.
New SUV's are north of 70k and you can't find one for sale,
I think the next bubble is going to be upper-middle middle class people! Not sure what the bubble will do but the zero interest rate policy has driven an entire class of folks, myself included, into a area of spending ability they shouldn't have.
Just some observations
Critical mass? Baloney. These thoughts have been with humanity for hundreds of years. Over those hundreds of years, folks haven sounded the same warnings, that there are too many people, that resources will soon become catastrophically scarce. Odd that is hasn't happened yet.
With that view, i hope you practiced your preaching and didnt reproduce.Yes, we are. (I am a retired Environmental Scientist.) I will try to be concise.
Humanity has consumed a VAST quantity of available resources and polluted much of what remains. What US residents see is not global. Much of the world cannot safely use water or breathe the air. Most arable land is in use, as production falls due to climate change. There are scant resources left to address the needs of many. These "many" are exposed to corruption, oppression and violence - governmental, criminal, and corporate.
The developed countries have taken (bought, coerced, stolen) more than their (our) fair share. This is enabled by policy, inept governance, and armies. This is nothing new - it's ancient. But now, there are limitless humans and limited resources. The pressure is great, and systems become dynamic under pressure. Those who can relocate to a better life will. Increasingly, that better life will cost more and more.
BandB is on the right track.
I can provide suggested reading material.
Jacklyn
My apologies Mr. KnotYet, you are correct. I don't like when that happens to me and now I've done it. Cheers PaulYou see, when a person quotes a prior post and then types below it, like I'm doing here,
that means they are responding to that post, not necessarily the OP.
Sooo, I was actually responding to kthoennes' post, not yours, you see?
Just pondering the thought of critical mass in humanity. Are we there? Im not talking about mass starvation and global illnesses I'm talking about 1st world critical mass. Were I live there are zero water front lots for sale, they have all been bought. In my work place (bulkheads/piers) its very hard to obtain material for regular jobs and almost impossible for large jobs. When I go eat, last night for example the resturants are so busy they don't answer the phone and when they do its 40 minutes for take out, there is an hour 1/2 wait for a table.
I see Texas in chaos (no power, food or water) because of a winter storm.
New SUV's are north of 70k and you can't find one for sale,
I think the next bubble is going to be upper-middle middle class people! Not sure what the bubble will do but the zero interest rate policy has driven an entire class of folks, myself included, into a area of spending ability they shouldn't have.
Just some observations