Greetings good citizen, have you noticed the latest meme to make the rounds is 'more'. Currently featured in an insurance company commercial [Two dudes building sand castles for their kids, you've seen it.] but it seems to popping up all over.
Perhaps the one chord I'm sure everyone is disturbed by is the part where one of 'em replies, Everybody likes MORE...isn't the first thing that pops in you head the list of shit you DON'T want MORE of?
To be fair, maybe it's me...I have this thing about 'blanket generalizations', they trip my BS meter every time!
So how about you good citizen, do you want MORE? If the commercial is to be believed, EVERYBODY wants MORE!! [a-la-mode even!]
The assumption here [there's that 'ass-word' again!] is everybody wants MORE 'good stuff' and they don't particularly care how much more either, more is better...as long as it's 'good'.
NOBODY wants more work for the same pay yet we've been putting up with that BS for the past 4 decades, since St. Ronnie busted the unions as one of his first moves marking the advent of 'Morning in America'
If you're getting sick of hear/reading me harp on about 'Morning in America' then maybe you'll take my point about 'more' not necessarily being 'better'. I don't focus on this point to task you, it's vital that you understand this nation experienced a 'palace coup' when a feeble B list actor was 'installed' as POTUS in 1980.
Considering how poorly things are going, we can only wonder how this will play out...[the part that ISN'T in doubt is that this won't end 'happily' by any stretch of the imagination.]
Worse, good citizen, things are going poorly precisely because of MORE! 'More with less' as employers 'right-sized their companies by eliminating employees and redistributing the work so you had more to do for the SAME pay while the increased prices ten percent and then gave out one and two percent pay increases [while humming the 'more for me' tune!]
Did you get a raise? Sure you did! Did that raise outpace inflation? According to GAO it did but the GAO measures inflation in fantasyland, not here!
Worse, inflation is 'adjusted' with measurements of well-being that in most cases you don't enjoy...but they're out there, somewhere, so your inflation rate isn't what you actually pay.
[Which begs the question what good are statistics when the numbers have no basis in reality?]
The ONLY useful thing to come out of the General Accounting office is they get paychecks for their lies, just like journalists do!
YOU on the other hand get to 'live the lie!' [you lucky dog you!]
So, is more work for less pay what you're hungry for? [Somehow you employer thinks so and they DON'T GIVE A DAMN WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT IT!]
Now, I'm 'fairly certain' [might be wrong again but that's the risk you take...] that MOST OF US, [certainly there are those of you who will NEVER be satisfied but them's the breaks...] would be 'tickled pink' if we got our 'fair share' of Brewster's Billions [that certainly aren't doing him a lick of good, sitting in a vault somewhere, earning spit because interest rates have gone negative!]
[Sidebar: quiz time! Why have interest rates gone negative around the world? The 'answer is probably in your own bank account but do you know why? Sure you do, in order to be 'paid' interest, first you have to be able to PAY! Global credit scores have plummeted, the result of the evaporation of 'discretionary income'...not that it disappeared, per se. Those Billionaires accumulated it so it went somewhere.]
You Know what 'the problem' with billionaires is, don't you? THEY ALREADY HAVE EVERYTHING THEY WANT! So their 'billions' do them [or anybody else] ZERO GOOD!
There are trillions of dollars sitting in offshore bank accounts AROUND THE WORLD doing nobody any good. [Understand, once upon a time those 'billions were 'at work' building infrastructure for a better life for us all...but our broken model has reached it's, er, 'inevitable conclusion' with the pauperization of the workforce. Now those trillions sit idle.
It's not like there is a lack of things that need doing...but they can't be done because 'the no new taxes' crowd has pauperized the communities that host them. [Yet we still manage to buy every official a new vehicle every year, too bad there aren't enough teachers...but your kids don't NEED to be educated.]
In fact, the dumber the better...so they will buy the pro-capitalist meme of MORE!
MORE for you means more work for less pay, it means more BS for less say, it means more grief as you struggle to make ends meet with your shrinking income and your ever-shortening 'shelf-life'.
The question facing us all...[okay, NOT the Billionaires] is how much MORE can you take?
I'm old and at the end of my tether...but this isn't about me, it's about US.
Which is to once again belabor the obvious, if we fail to shift the focus from ME back to US, we're toast!
Thanks for letting me back inside your head so I can deliver MORE [although I swear the hemorrhaging was an accident!]
Gegner
Perhaps the one chord I'm sure everyone is disturbed by is the part where one of 'em replies, Everybody likes MORE...isn't the first thing that pops in you head the list of shit you DON'T want MORE of?
To be fair, maybe it's me...I have this thing about 'blanket generalizations', they trip my BS meter every time!
So how about you good citizen, do you want MORE? If the commercial is to be believed, EVERYBODY wants MORE!! [a-la-mode even!]
The assumption here [there's that 'ass-word' again!] is everybody wants MORE 'good stuff' and they don't particularly care how much more either, more is better...as long as it's 'good'.
NOBODY wants more work for the same pay yet we've been putting up with that BS for the past 4 decades, since St. Ronnie busted the unions as one of his first moves marking the advent of 'Morning in America'
If you're getting sick of hear/reading me harp on about 'Morning in America' then maybe you'll take my point about 'more' not necessarily being 'better'. I don't focus on this point to task you, it's vital that you understand this nation experienced a 'palace coup' when a feeble B list actor was 'installed' as POTUS in 1980.
Considering how poorly things are going, we can only wonder how this will play out...[the part that ISN'T in doubt is that this won't end 'happily' by any stretch of the imagination.]
Worse, good citizen, things are going poorly precisely because of MORE! 'More with less' as employers 'right-sized their companies by eliminating employees and redistributing the work so you had more to do for the SAME pay while the increased prices ten percent and then gave out one and two percent pay increases [while humming the 'more for me' tune!]
Did you get a raise? Sure you did! Did that raise outpace inflation? According to GAO it did but the GAO measures inflation in fantasyland, not here!
Worse, inflation is 'adjusted' with measurements of well-being that in most cases you don't enjoy...but they're out there, somewhere, so your inflation rate isn't what you actually pay.
[Which begs the question what good are statistics when the numbers have no basis in reality?]
The ONLY useful thing to come out of the General Accounting office is they get paychecks for their lies, just like journalists do!
YOU on the other hand get to 'live the lie!' [you lucky dog you!]
So, is more work for less pay what you're hungry for? [Somehow you employer thinks so and they DON'T GIVE A DAMN WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT IT!]
Now, I'm 'fairly certain' [might be wrong again but that's the risk you take...] that MOST OF US, [certainly there are those of you who will NEVER be satisfied but them's the breaks...] would be 'tickled pink' if we got our 'fair share' of Brewster's Billions [that certainly aren't doing him a lick of good, sitting in a vault somewhere, earning spit because interest rates have gone negative!]
[Sidebar: quiz time! Why have interest rates gone negative around the world? The 'answer is probably in your own bank account but do you know why? Sure you do, in order to be 'paid' interest, first you have to be able to PAY! Global credit scores have plummeted, the result of the evaporation of 'discretionary income'...not that it disappeared, per se. Those Billionaires accumulated it so it went somewhere.]
You Know what 'the problem' with billionaires is, don't you? THEY ALREADY HAVE EVERYTHING THEY WANT! So their 'billions' do them [or anybody else] ZERO GOOD!
There are trillions of dollars sitting in offshore bank accounts AROUND THE WORLD doing nobody any good. [Understand, once upon a time those 'billions were 'at work' building infrastructure for a better life for us all...but our broken model has reached it's, er, 'inevitable conclusion' with the pauperization of the workforce. Now those trillions sit idle.
It's not like there is a lack of things that need doing...but they can't be done because 'the no new taxes' crowd has pauperized the communities that host them. [Yet we still manage to buy every official a new vehicle every year, too bad there aren't enough teachers...but your kids don't NEED to be educated.]
In fact, the dumber the better...so they will buy the pro-capitalist meme of MORE!
MORE for you means more work for less pay, it means more BS for less say, it means more grief as you struggle to make ends meet with your shrinking income and your ever-shortening 'shelf-life'.
The question facing us all...[okay, NOT the Billionaires] is how much MORE can you take?
I'm old and at the end of my tether...but this isn't about me, it's about US.
Which is to once again belabor the obvious, if we fail to shift the focus from ME back to US, we're toast!
Thanks for letting me back inside your head so I can deliver MORE [although I swear the hemorrhaging was an accident!]
Gegner
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