Hans-Hermann Hoppe explains why democracy does not work, so to speak. This isn't exactly news, but it does fit in with the general political theme of the news section.
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Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Christmas Music Sucks
Christmas songs suck.
If you go outside around more than 4 people from the beginning of November until the end of December you will hear Christmas songs and likely nothing but Christmas songs. The problem with Christmas songs is that once you remove all the songs about Jesus, who is persona non grata in today's atheist society, there are all of 7 Christmas songs left. And you've heard all of them. And they all sound the same. And those same 7 songs are played on continuous loop for two months until you start to envy the deaf.
All 7 Christmas songs are shit. They're bullshit designed to make money. Every pop star for the past 60 years has known that producing a Christmas album is guaranteed to make tons of money, because even though EVERYONE has heard all 7 Christmas songs a thousand times, like an Alzheimer's patient, people need to buy the new album that contains the exact same 7 Christmas songs just because a different person sings them. As if they've never heard those songs before.
Why does Christmas exist? It's not to sell garbage to rich people who don't need any more garbage. CHRISTmas exists because of Jesus Christ. Sure, the date is wrong, but Christmas exists to celebrate the birth of Christ. In the modern atheist dystopia people are afraid to offend the one or two percent of extremely vocal atheists and Muslims who see Christmas as haram, we have to create a neopagan alternative to the birth of Christ, and all that's left is making money. Take a listen to all 7 Christmas songs that the big five networks play. They're all about money and materialism. It's a not so subtle subliminal message to get people to spend money on worthless garbage that no one needs or wants. People will buy $400 worth of shit and then, at the checkout counter admit to the clerk that they don't know why they bought all that shit. America gave up producing anything (except cardboard and US Dollars) decades ago, so I have no idea where all these people get this much money to buy garbage. They have to be using credit, which feeds the globalist banksters insatiable hunger for debt.
If we remember Christ more, even if you don't believe, just take his message to heart. We're not suffering from a lack of novelty sweaters, useless gadgets that get put in the garage after a week, and cheaply made toys the Chinese fill with lead, we're suffering from a lack of compassion. Imagine how much better life would be if instead of spending $400 on gifts for people you hate to satisfy your own ego, people spent that money on helping the poor. THAT is what Christmas should be about, not consumerism.
If you go outside around more than 4 people from the beginning of November until the end of December you will hear Christmas songs and likely nothing but Christmas songs. The problem with Christmas songs is that once you remove all the songs about Jesus, who is persona non grata in today's atheist society, there are all of 7 Christmas songs left. And you've heard all of them. And they all sound the same. And those same 7 songs are played on continuous loop for two months until you start to envy the deaf.
All 7 Christmas songs are shit. They're bullshit designed to make money. Every pop star for the past 60 years has known that producing a Christmas album is guaranteed to make tons of money, because even though EVERYONE has heard all 7 Christmas songs a thousand times, like an Alzheimer's patient, people need to buy the new album that contains the exact same 7 Christmas songs just because a different person sings them. As if they've never heard those songs before.
Why does Christmas exist? It's not to sell garbage to rich people who don't need any more garbage. CHRISTmas exists because of Jesus Christ. Sure, the date is wrong, but Christmas exists to celebrate the birth of Christ. In the modern atheist dystopia people are afraid to offend the one or two percent of extremely vocal atheists and Muslims who see Christmas as haram, we have to create a neopagan alternative to the birth of Christ, and all that's left is making money. Take a listen to all 7 Christmas songs that the big five networks play. They're all about money and materialism. It's a not so subtle subliminal message to get people to spend money on worthless garbage that no one needs or wants. People will buy $400 worth of shit and then, at the checkout counter admit to the clerk that they don't know why they bought all that shit. America gave up producing anything (except cardboard and US Dollars) decades ago, so I have no idea where all these people get this much money to buy garbage. They have to be using credit, which feeds the globalist banksters insatiable hunger for debt.
If we remember Christ more, even if you don't believe, just take his message to heart. We're not suffering from a lack of novelty sweaters, useless gadgets that get put in the garage after a week, and cheaply made toys the Chinese fill with lead, we're suffering from a lack of compassion. Imagine how much better life would be if instead of spending $400 on gifts for people you hate to satisfy your own ego, people spent that money on helping the poor. THAT is what Christmas should be about, not consumerism.
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Moron Crapitalism
Dan Price, CEO of Gravity Payments, the man who gave away millions of his own money to raise the wages of everyone in his company, is facing trouble. Not because of his policy, but because of something all too common, fratricide. Moron Crapitalists will say Gravity Payments is in trouble because of leftism, but that's patently untrue. Rust Lumbar and Pizzaman Cain didn't actually read the story, they read the headline and jumped on it like a bitch in heat.
What Mr. Price did was not "hurrr leftism!" He owns the fucking business. He gave his own money away. He didn't demand the government increase minimum wage, he cut his own pay to give it to people who worked at his own business. That's capitalism. It's his business, he has the right to do whatever he wants with it. As long as he does not include the government - and he didn't - that's still capitalism.
None of the problems he's facing are from "hurr leftism doesn't work!" His brother, a minority share holder, is suing him, threatening to destroy the company. Now that he gave millions of dollars away he doesn't have the money to pay for legal fees to fight his predatory brother.
Greedy motherfuckers who work for the company quit out of butthurt. They wanted to feel superior to other workers. Other business owners and clients, stopped doing business out of a knee-jerk reaction like all the other people who say "hurrr leftism". His policy to give his own money away did not negatively affect the company, human evil of people who want to feel superior to others is hurting the company.
And it's not even all bad. His business has gotten more clients than ever as a result of his decision. The ONLY problem is the lawsuit. If his brother destroys the company in the critical 18 months before profits pick up then it's over. His brother pounced when the company was at its weakest specifically to destroy it. Had that not happened this might have started a landslide. Other business owners might have had to follow his lead and stop paying themselves a trillion dollars a year by the force of the market correcting itself.
This isn't what the fatass Rust Lumbar or Pizzaman Cain said. "Hurrr leftism!" It's not leftism. He earned that money and he can do whatever the fuck he wants with it. If he wants to give it away that's just as much capitalism as if he wants to keep it to build a mansion he never uses or a fleet of cars he keeps in a garage or a trip to africa to murder animals to make his dick bigger. Capitalism is not the same as greed. You can be very generous with the money you earn. Isn't that what people like Lumbar and Glennard Becklestein say? Rich leftists complain about the poor but don't give their own money away, they want the government to raise taxes. Well here is a rich man who doesn't want the government to raise taxes, he got up off his ass and gave his own hard earned money away and Lumbar and Messiah Complex are still bitching about it. You literally can never win with them. They will complain about whatever you do, and call giving golden parachutes to trillionaires who destroy the global economy capitalism. Well I call it crapitalism and it needs to die.
What Mr. Price did was not "hurrr leftism!" He owns the fucking business. He gave his own money away. He didn't demand the government increase minimum wage, he cut his own pay to give it to people who worked at his own business. That's capitalism. It's his business, he has the right to do whatever he wants with it. As long as he does not include the government - and he didn't - that's still capitalism.
None of the problems he's facing are from "hurr leftism doesn't work!" His brother, a minority share holder, is suing him, threatening to destroy the company. Now that he gave millions of dollars away he doesn't have the money to pay for legal fees to fight his predatory brother.
Greedy motherfuckers who work for the company quit out of butthurt. They wanted to feel superior to other workers. Other business owners and clients, stopped doing business out of a knee-jerk reaction like all the other people who say "hurrr leftism". His policy to give his own money away did not negatively affect the company, human evil of people who want to feel superior to others is hurting the company.
And it's not even all bad. His business has gotten more clients than ever as a result of his decision. The ONLY problem is the lawsuit. If his brother destroys the company in the critical 18 months before profits pick up then it's over. His brother pounced when the company was at its weakest specifically to destroy it. Had that not happened this might have started a landslide. Other business owners might have had to follow his lead and stop paying themselves a trillion dollars a year by the force of the market correcting itself.
This isn't what the fatass Rust Lumbar or Pizzaman Cain said. "Hurrr leftism!" It's not leftism. He earned that money and he can do whatever the fuck he wants with it. If he wants to give it away that's just as much capitalism as if he wants to keep it to build a mansion he never uses or a fleet of cars he keeps in a garage or a trip to africa to murder animals to make his dick bigger. Capitalism is not the same as greed. You can be very generous with the money you earn. Isn't that what people like Lumbar and Glennard Becklestein say? Rich leftists complain about the poor but don't give their own money away, they want the government to raise taxes. Well here is a rich man who doesn't want the government to raise taxes, he got up off his ass and gave his own hard earned money away and Lumbar and Messiah Complex are still bitching about it. You literally can never win with them. They will complain about whatever you do, and call giving golden parachutes to trillionaires who destroy the global economy capitalism. Well I call it crapitalism and it needs to die.
Saturday, August 1, 2015
The Vineyard Workers in Real Life
Company raises wages of all it's employees. Some workers quit out of envy or spite or just plain mean-spiritedness to when they first started, so out of butthurt they quit. They were still going to be paid more but they were butthurt about new workers not having to suffer like they had to so they quit. This is what I was talking about with the schools.
Does he not have the right to do what he wants with his own company, or are the seasoned workers envious of his generosity?
When Dan Price, founder and CEO of the Seattle-based credit card payment processing firm Gravity Payments, announced he was raising the company's minimum salary to $70,000 a year, he was met with overwhelming enthusiasm.
"Everyone start[ed] screaming and cheering and just going crazy," Price told Business Insider shortly after he broke the news in April.
One employee told him the raise would allow him to fly his mom out from Puerto Rico to visit him in Seattle. Another said the raise would make it possible for him to raise a family with his wife. Overnight, Price became something of a folk hero — a small-business owner taking income inequality into his own hands.
But in the weeks since then, it's become clear that not everyone is equally pleased. Among the critics? Some of Price's own employees.
The New York Times reports that two of the company's "most valued" members have left the company, "spurred in part by their view that it was unfair to double the pay of some new hires while the longest-serving staff members got small or no raises."
No one is losing any money. No one is not getting a raise. The only "problem" is that new employees are getting a bigger raise percentage wise than the older employees. People who have been there for many years are still making more money. Hard workers will still make more and still get bigger raises in the future, and slackers will get the boot. It's just this one time the bottom is being raised, and the people at the top are envious. They don't want new people getting more than they used to back when they were new, despite making more now. It's a sin, plain and simple.
How does this policy change hurt the people who quit? Only their pride. They are not hurt financially. They are still getting raises. They are still making more money than new people, they just don't get the ego boost of thinking they're so much better than the new people. I wouldn't care one bit. If I was working at a company for 20 years and I started out making $30,000 and worked my way up to $90,000 and now, 20 years later, I saw that new people were making $70,000 instead of $30,000 I wouldn't foam at the mouth and quit because they didn't have to start out as bad as I did. I wouldn't care one bit. I would still be making more than when I started. I'm not competing with them. I don't have to compare myself to them, only to myself. My situation improved. So what if the situation of everyone else improved? Am I doing better than I was? Of course. So what's the problem? Pride is the problem. Pride is the fountainhead of all sin. It is the greatest evil of this world.
Does he not have the right to do what he wants with his own company, or are the seasoned workers envious of his generosity?
When Dan Price, founder and CEO of the Seattle-based credit card payment processing firm Gravity Payments, announced he was raising the company's minimum salary to $70,000 a year, he was met with overwhelming enthusiasm.
"Everyone start[ed] screaming and cheering and just going crazy," Price told Business Insider shortly after he broke the news in April.
One employee told him the raise would allow him to fly his mom out from Puerto Rico to visit him in Seattle. Another said the raise would make it possible for him to raise a family with his wife. Overnight, Price became something of a folk hero — a small-business owner taking income inequality into his own hands.
But in the weeks since then, it's become clear that not everyone is equally pleased. Among the critics? Some of Price's own employees.
The New York Times reports that two of the company's "most valued" members have left the company, "spurred in part by their view that it was unfair to double the pay of some new hires while the longest-serving staff members got small or no raises."
No one is losing any money. No one is not getting a raise. The only "problem" is that new employees are getting a bigger raise percentage wise than the older employees. People who have been there for many years are still making more money. Hard workers will still make more and still get bigger raises in the future, and slackers will get the boot. It's just this one time the bottom is being raised, and the people at the top are envious. They don't want new people getting more than they used to back when they were new, despite making more now. It's a sin, plain and simple.
How does this policy change hurt the people who quit? Only their pride. They are not hurt financially. They are still getting raises. They are still making more money than new people, they just don't get the ego boost of thinking they're so much better than the new people. I wouldn't care one bit. If I was working at a company for 20 years and I started out making $30,000 and worked my way up to $90,000 and now, 20 years later, I saw that new people were making $70,000 instead of $30,000 I wouldn't foam at the mouth and quit because they didn't have to start out as bad as I did. I wouldn't care one bit. I would still be making more than when I started. I'm not competing with them. I don't have to compare myself to them, only to myself. My situation improved. So what if the situation of everyone else improved? Am I doing better than I was? Of course. So what's the problem? Pride is the problem. Pride is the fountainhead of all sin. It is the greatest evil of this world.
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