Things Trump Is Doing Right

[Eric the Green]

(05-09-2017, 10:44 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:

(05-09-2017, 10:05 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: What Galen does not understand also is that regulations and social programs paid for by taxes are also self-defense against the aggression initiated by the bosses. Pollution, destruction of Nature, inadequate payments for service rendered, inadequate services for payments given, other rip-off schemes and actions--- these are also forms of aggression.

And the libertarian/conservative "everyone must work/no free lunch/I don't want to pay for those who don't work" memes are also out of date in a time when machines are doing the work. The machines do not belong to the owners and bosses; they belong to all of us. Otherwise they do not perform in the way that the inventors and developers of those machines intended. They are not labor-saving devices unless they save labor for all, not just the owners.

There is also another aspect besides automation itself. Corporate entities are increasingly doing the following:
- Outsourcing activities .... to the customer or end user! They make you do what they used to do.
- Simply not doing certain things at all ... corporate sloth. This is justified under the rubric of "non value added activity" or "low ROI activity"
- Still doing things they used to do but doing them badly

All of these acts reduce head count. It looks great on the ledger sheet and the shareholders react with glee from their myopic frame of reference.

Yes indeed. I encounter this these days almost every time I try to buy anything.