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With the advent of ESG, the US and EU socioeconomic landscapes are completing a consolidation by fascist combines of public/private partnerships eating up all the small spaces in the wake of post disaster market contractions, and leaving them disused, so that the middle and lower classes remain fossilized in a static more manageable state that by mid century hopes to become a digital landscape of nationalized infrastructure that has pushed everyone not wealthy out of property ownership, and into a kind of rental society where you work, house, feed, and entertain yourself from a limited buffet supplied by large government and corporate concerns trying to preserve their unsustainable paradigm at everyone else's expense.
Some of the nations I have created over the years have been parodies of concepts I detest.
Eusocial governance, collectivism, and the like are at the top of my list, including the concept of collective salvation that the old imperial churches fostered as they began turning the Gospel on its head for the benefit of power mongers almost as soon as Christ began cooling His heels behind that rock for three days.
I'm back. Had a long trial in New Mexico and not all that much free time. Now, time to catch up.
Not in the US. There are very few things you cannot put into a contract. If it is not precluded by state or federal law, you can agree to it in a contract.
In the US a freelancer (also known as a contractor) comes under a different set of laws than an employee. An employee is paid an hourly wage or salary. Taxes, FICA, and Social Security are withheld. A contractor invoices for services and is paid in full, with all taxes being their own responsibility. Employees operate under the employer's business license(s) and insurance. Contractors operate under their own license(s) and insurance. The list goes on and on, but the bottom line is there are very distinct legal differences.
Not true. While there are many lessor party candidates for office, they rarely get elected. As a rule third party candidates tend to keep one or the other mainstream candidates out of office by taking votes from them. Those casting the votes for the third party candidate probably would not like to see the person they are helping across the finish line win. (See what the Green Party did to Al Gore in Florida during the 2000 election.)
This article about Nippon Steel's bid to buy US Steel ot me to thinking about how this came to be.
In this nation, domestic steel production got so expensive that sometime in the 1980's it became cheaper to ship raw materials to the Pacific Rim, have those materials made into steel, and then ship that steel back here.
Let's set the Way-Back to the late 1960's. Japan was in need of more steel than they could produce. Japanese industrialists came to the US to look at US Steel production facilities with an eye toward buying. They toured Bethlehem Steel, among other plants. At that time, Bethlehem steel had a payroll just north of 5000 people.
The Japanese witnessed people seven or eight people doing a job that should only take four. They saw processes from mixing to pouring that were done manually rather than automated. They discovered flaws and quality issues because of manual due to a lack of electronic and mechanical process controls.
Every inquiry the Japanese made about the above issues and more came down to union rules and requirements.
Those industrialists went back to Japan. They did not place any orders. Three years later the first of several behumouth steel mills opened on Osaka.
That first mill dwarfed Bethlehem by a factor of three. Fully automated with state of the art mixing and process control. That first mill opened with a payroll of 500 people. That was the beginning of the decline of US steel production.
Of course, the unions are screaming bloody murder over Nippon's acquisition of US Steel.
"I feel like they already haven't put America first, by selling out to a foreign entity," USW Local 1557 President Don Furko said.
No, Don, you did this to yourselves over the last 50 years or so.
What do you think? New poll is up.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/nippon-steel-says-us-steel-acquisition-wouldnt-cause-layoffs-plant-closures#&_intcmp=fnhpriver_4
It is an older story than the 1960s, and not exclusive to steel.
Japan started a war, because of its material vulnerability, once.
Post WWII, the US has a history of "recycling" more and more of its raw materials through an international process of, well, processing.
Starting with petroleum, Marxist political influence filtered through labor and environmental reformation has steadily priced the refining of domestic material into manufactured goods out of the hands of all but the most brainy and brassy balled entrepreneurs willing to try their luck.
Except for those concerns approved by ESG standards, of course.
Today, a politically connected corpse can captain those with guaranteed smooth sailing until the math, and social realities catch up to bite that kind of corporate fascism in the ass.
Hell, at this point, just pulling the raw elements out of the ground is almost prohibitively expensive, and it does not take much for a Hillary Clinton to push a US entity into selling out its uranium interests to a Russian consortium; and all of this is intentional, as part of an age old "mea culpa" policy to apologize and appease for the US rising out of WWII a superpower capable of producing and maintaining a military industrial complex that could protect the world from the international adventurism of Marxist-Leninism.
I put it that way, because you apparently cannot call Marxist imperialists, despite the KGB overpopulating the world with Kalashnikov rifles.
The most prolifically produced, distributed, and fired in anger small arm in the world with no close second.
Okay, back to US.
The apologetic paradigm is what inspired the unnecessary flip into a primarily consumerist society, turned US into a piggy bank for UN international wealth redistribution, and if it has ever appeared that our trade policy dynamic seems to mostly put US over a barrel, well, that is because it intentionally does.
Again, just to diplomatically salve the egos of lesser powers with an inferiority complex.
I hate, absolutely hate, the continuous pain, misery, and frustration of those handicapped unnecessarily by progressive socioeconomic policy that ultimately does what it does for the sake of control through that most ancient art of pro-scarcity despotism.
Prevent the people from prospering, and punish those who do, before they gain enough sense with their wealth to seek freer, and safer shores.
However, labor unions have helped make their own bed as the primary domestic coffer of Democrat politics, and must now sleep in it; and this is the case for every industry they have helped to greedily price beyond reason.
My concerns are not just for US, however, as we catch up to and combine with the EU, and other consortiums who have been advancing similarly dysfunctional policy models ahead of US, and continuing on after some of the most ridiculous inhuman, and anti-social pandemic mitigation yet fever dreamed by politically compromised technocrats to drive this century towards an apocalyptic global food deficit.
At least it would be, if the elder heavy populations of the world, most notably those of Asia, were not going to pay that particular piper through the latter half of the century.
People call me a pessimist, but I always look for the silver lining in things, however thin it might be.
Want to know why Democrats should not be allowed to even suggest nominees for the US Supreme Court? Here's why:
"Your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the federal government in significant ways in the most important time periods. The government actually has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of this country... by encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information."
—Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson addressing plaintiff's attorney during oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri, 5th Circuit 23A243.
Translation: The ''first amendment is an obstacle for the government for protecting citizens against information we disagree with, if we were north koreans we would definitively support the internet ban that Kim Jong Un did because that prevents misinformation and people should only get information from competent institutions and government authorities that are run by experts and knows what they talk about, people are unintelligent and democracy is rule by the ignorant, trust the experts only, people are also too disinformed and unintelligent to vote''
In Germany, the government is also having similar goals. They want to pass the "Demokratieförderungsgesetz" so "Democracy encouragement act". It will enable the government to give even more money to "democratic" aka left wing and progressive organizations. Some of these organizations also go to schools.
The law is also dealing with fighting hate crime, where of course the government decides what counts as hate crime. Probably anything they call "right wing" and "right extremist".
The politicians are constantly talking about protecting "our" democracy, but what they really mean is protecting their democracy, and they want to put anyone at a disadvantage who doesn't agree with them.
They currently also can monitor people and people's bank accounts who they classed as "Anti-constitutional". This mostly applies to people from the opposition party. The government agency that does this classification is bound to instructions by the government.
Why am I reminded of Chancellor Palpatine just now.?
An administrative state ridiculously top heavy with bureaucracy that is fundamentally inept, and has outgrown, and defies most efforts by elected officials to address dysfunction, is a ripe fruit for fundamental transformation.
Usually into something worse than before.
Just ask the Weimar Republic.
American progressives are government supremacists, and in regards to information handling, see themselves as the supreme authority on truth.
Facts, and "good" facts are parceled out as needed for the sake of social engineering.
Under that pretext, the government can arbitrate with extreme prejudice, and little fear of reprisal.
The only thing keeping progressives from absolute ownership of the narrative in all but name is a document peppered with negative rights that errs on the side of the citizenry for the sake of a grass root, ground up approach to organizing, and advancing community.
Again, an old problem.
Subversive Marxism 101 calls for the infiltration and eventual control of infrastructure like education, media, tort culture, and healthcare.
That last one is a fundamental pillar of authoritarian socialism.
When your urologist doubles as an agent of the state, they have you by the balls for sure.
I would think the people of Germany would have already learned that lesson. But, yet... here we are.
Same, not a good page in the progressive liberal canadian history
Both Trudeau senior and junior are Marxist simps.
Junior in particular has a very unseemly CCP fetish, and would remake Canada into a colony administrated by Beijing, if he could get away with it.
How he dealt with the protestors was pretty much par for the course in my mind.
Well actually a lot of people especially in the eastern parts of the country are very fed up with marxist and woke agenda. A lot of them still remember how socialism was and they see the similarities.
But unfortunately, this is not an isolated issue. We see similar things happen in other western countries like the US and Canada.
Yes, they are everywhere. One of the latest things I heard, maybe some of you know about it, was that there are consultant companies that video game studios hire to make their games politically correct and to get that juicy ESG score. They rewrite the stories and are able to do other things in the name of "inclusion" and "diversity". Basically they want to shove you woke stuff down your throat.
I really hate that everything has become politicized nowadays. Mainstream Movies, TV shows and games now too just try to push a narrative.
Anyway someome made a Steam curator list of some games where one of these companies was involved. The company (Sweet Baby Inc) called for mass flagging of the list on Twitter which made the whole thing more popular. (Streisand effect)
The media portrayed this list as far right white supremacist hate crime. Sidenote: The author of said list is Brazilian.
In regards to US entertainment media, just follow Disney's odious trail, and assume the rest of the industry is following suit.
They are long past the need for subtlety as decades of defining deviancy down has skewed the frame of reference for divining true center on any given issue.
In its arrogance, American news media operates under the premise that the customer is always wrong.
Boycotting is a very limited response, because it is not about the money.
Circulation, and ratings count for little in the minds of progressive moguls in politics, or business.
They happily prop each other up with cash, and occasional policy tweaks on the Hill, because all that matters is staying on the air, and the screen, so they can keep beating people over the head with their spin.
Everyone, BOPDR's next debate will be on immigration. It will be at 9:00 AM AEST Sunday, or 6:00 PM EST (I think. That could be CST) Saturday. The specific topic should be 'In what cases is increased immigration a good thing?'. If you would like to sign up to participate in the debate, telegram me about it, and I will add your name to the list.
Disney is a freight train speeding toward a busted bridge. The CEO and the Board are starting to catch on and backed off on the throttle. What waits to be seen is if anyone applies the brakes before it is too late to stop the train from plunging into the canyon.
The New York Times, and other powerhouse publishers like it, have devolved into allowing Twitter to be their editor in chief in all but name.
Entertainment does not pretend to as high an ethical standard as news reporting, which leaves cowardice in the face of rabid activists a considerable obstacle.
The progressive activism industry has become a powerhouse in its own right as far as financial backing, and political influence goes.
A very fat Karen to sidestep around in any hall of power you have to navigate in the US these days.
However, a board of directors can only let things go so far, but instead of nipping the issue in the bud like they would a purely numbers issue, they have to take matters tainted with ideology, especially in the face of ESG standards of accounting, to the cliff's edge like baby Kirk in the Corvette at the quarry.
Tell me about it. More and more news articles are littered with twitter comments as part of the article. Seriously, people. I don't care what people are tweeting. Other people's opinions should not ever be part of a fact based news piece.
Opinions are why someone created the editorial page.
Never mind that Twitter is the lowest common denominator of American discourse, and does not represent a median example of much beyond willful emotionally charged ignorance.
Case in point.
It is blue check, not chick.
At least I don't have to be online to know what they are thinking, if that is the word for it.
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