Textbook manifesto (2016)

There just isn't the avalilibity of jobs that were once were.

Yea--I know that goverment unemployment rate looks good, but when I look out my window, it just doesn't look/feel right. People living in a shared home, or watching that bank account dwindle. The only people I see making real money are the rich kids. (Donald Jr. killing a tiger, or Elephant just screams the how the deck is stacked. Those bastards would be homeless, or dead without that family support net.) The occasional Horato Algier pops up, but it's huge when they make it.

Yes you can go to welding school, and join Mike Rowe in the middle of nowhere for six months of solid work. Then what?

Yes you can pick fruit for a few months--then what?

Yes, you can work for "Letgo.whatever", and hope it competes with one of the big boys. Then talk about the good ole days in Starbucks.

It's the lack of jobs that scares me.

I really believe we need to seriously consider a basic income.

At the same time, we need to make living less illegial.

If a guy wants to live in a boat, and he doesn't pollute; leave the guy alone. If a guy wants to sleep in his car, or in a park, don't bother him unless he's causing trouble. (I was listening to our latest Supreme Court justice. He a proud member of The Federalist Society. He stated he's tired of a law for Everything. I couldn't agree more. A man loses a job, and doesn't have a network of support to fall back upon; within weeks he's doing something illegial? If Jesus reappeared.

He would most likely get a ticket, or arrest his first night. Fishing in the wrong stream--ticket. Fishing without a license--ticket. Peeing in the wrong area--ticket. Taking a nap in the park--ticket. Loose Robe that exposed a testicle--jail. Picking a Apple--most likely on private property--ticket. Turing water into wine--DEA spontaneously appears. I'd give him a week before being having a cop run their fingers over every inch on his body. It's gotten crazy?

We are seeing less, and less jobs by the decade, and I don't see a solution.

Oh yea, "An Infrastructure bill will provide jobs?" With such great machinery; I just don't see it pulling the poor into the middle class. We will have nice roads, bridges, and airports, but the real money will go to the Contractors. And it's a sin to go back to shovels.

I feel blah. I guess that affects my view lately. I hope I feel better tomorrow.

If there are people there to buy a car, or a gallon of milk, then "job creators" will compete against each other to hire enough people to satisfy that demand, and take a cut of the revenue.

No one creates a job. They satisfy a demand. Steve Jobs supposedly said something like we didn't know we wanted iPhones until we saw them. That may be true, but lucky for Apple that there are enough people with disposable income to buy those iPhones.

Demand comes first, then jobs to satisfy the demand. And if a "job creator" could satisfy that demand without creating jobs, he'd do it. "Job creators" are not in the business of creating jobs, they're in the business of making money, however the current economic environment allows and demands.

The only person who creates a job is the guy buying a pack of cigarettes while filling up his car.

In the US, poor people don't see themselves as poor. They see themselves as not-yet-rich (or, at least, not-yet-middle-class). Therefore people oppose taxes on "the rich" because they think that those taxes might one-day affect them, even if that expectation is unrealistic in the extreme.

I'm guessing the exams were easy but you didn't learn much calculus.