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Military
Tax dollars well spent
The US Navy is caught in ANOTHER scandal where officers took bribes in exchange for overspending on port services by millions of dollars. It appears as though our military officers are better at lining their own pockets than they are at actually winning wars or avoiding collisions with other ships.
economics
Remote employees
The website Payscale.com asks: “Should pay be adjusted for remote employees?” The real question isn’t whether it should, the question should be “Is pay adjusted for remote workers?” To which the answer is: “Yes, yes it is.”
This is just reality. When a business is hiring from a local pool of workers, the cost of living and tax climate of the local area dictates what amount of pay workers will be willing to accept. A person in Manhattan or Oahu, where the cost of living is high, will demand a higher salary than a person in Biloxi.
It isn’t just that, however. Labor is a product to be sold, and is thus subject to supply and demand, just like any other product. Expanding the labor pool from the local area to the entire nation increases the supply and thus the value of the labor.
One of the things that COVID and the lockdowns did to the business climate was to show businesses that expensive office space on Park Avenue in Manhattan wasn’t strictly necessary for success. Most office workers are capable of doing their jobs remotely. It won’t be long before businesses begin recruiting employees from places like Des Moines because they will soon realize that the employee pool there doesn’t need to be paid as much as the employees from Manhattan who are having to pay $3500 a month for a studio apartment after paying a quarter of their salary in state and local taxes. Places like Tulsa will soon host remote workers in the same way that India and the Philippines now host call centers.
This is why cities like Nashville and Clearwater Beach are seeing population booms as cities like Chicago and New York City see massive relocations.
The employment reality is changing.
Cancel Culture
Stupidity
There are idiots that are wasting time in an effort to rename Florida’s Lee County into Bruce Lee County.
COVID
Employers requiring employee family jabs
A Louisiana hospital is requiring the families of employees to be vaccinated. What next? Gun owners being required to turn in guns or be fired?
Humor
Don’t keep membership lists
Lists are easy to hack, easily leaked, and make it far too easy for publically unknown members to be doxxed. The people outed in this article have just seen their lives destroyed.
Of course, it can work both ways. Sign lefties up for things where, once outed, it could be problematic. Imagine your local leftie gun banner as a member of NAMBLA or the Aryan Brotherhood.
Anti American left
Little Marxist
One of my wife’s friends is from Cuba. That friend has been dating a man from Puerto Rico, and the boyfriend has a child from a previous marriage. Let’s refer to the kid as Carlos. I first met Carlos about six years ago, when he was eight years old or so. He was a decent kid who collected coins as a hobby. He’s fourteen now. He has been in the process of “finding himself” for the past few months.
It happens. My niece decided she was gay. Then a few months later, no longer gay, but a vegetarian. Now she is back to Pescatarian. I guess kids have to experiment. My son did something similar when he was 15 or so. He decided that he wanted to be Socialist, mostly because he thought the government should pay for everything. That phase lasted until he got his first paycheck and saw how much was taken out in taxes. “This is bullshit,” was the phrase he used.
Anyway, back to Carlos. He came home recently and announced that he is a Marxist. On his visitation weekends with Mom (who is also a hardcore lefty), the two of them have been going to protest marches in places like Tallahassee, where he is waving signs saying things like “Capitalism kills” along with signs disparaging the US military, calling them baby killers, that sort of thing. He also marches with the Defund the Police, things like that.
My wife’s friend was willing to ignore it. She found a Che shirt in his closet. As a Cuban, she came unglued. I’ve seen the kid’s social media posts. He blames the US for supporting Pinochet, says he was elected and the US is to blame for supporting a dictator. He claims he is going to head to Canada as soon as he is 18. (Why do they always pick Canada?)
I can’t talk to the disgusting little monster without wanting to punch him in the face. Oh, and mom? That little communist is a certified nutcase. She is also a middle school social studies teacher.
COVID
Children and COVID jab
Physicians in Central Florida are recommending that you vaccinate children aged 5 to 14 against COVID.
Since the vaccine doesn’t prevent infection, the only possible reason for accepting the vaccine is to lessen the severity of the illness.
According to the NIH, the COVID fatality rate of children in that age group is 0.02 per 100,000, which is 1/10,000 the rate of the US population as a whole, which is 215 per 100,000.
Currently, the COVID vaccine has an adverse reaction rate of approximately 20.7 per 100,000.
The adverse reaction rate for the vaccine is thus approximately 1,000 times higher than the risk of COVID for that age group.
The science and the math don’t lie. Even using the US government’s own figures and accepting them at face value says that the risk of the vaccine is greater than the benefit.
Uncategorized
A question on tips
This morning’s post on the minimum wage and tips brings a question to my mind:
Two couples eat at the same restaurant. They sit at adjacent tables, have the same server, and receive identical service with identical food, with one exception: the first table has a bottle of house wine that costs $20, while the second table has a bottle of vintage wine that costs $300. The question is: what did the server do for the second couple that justifies the extra $42 tip?
Cancel Culture
Star Wars isn’t woke enough
Now Jedi Kinights, a fictional group who lived a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, are not woke enough, according to Scientific American.
The Jedi are inappropriate mascots for social justice. Although they’re ostensibly heroes within the Star Wars universe, the Jedi are inappropriate symbols for justice work. They are a religious order of intergalactic police-monks, prone to white saviorism and toxically masculine approaches to conflict resolution (violent duels with phallic lightsabers, gaslighting by means of “Jedi mind tricks,” etc.).
The Jedi are also an exclusionary cult, membership to which is partly predicated on the possession of heightened psychic and physical abilities… The heroic Jedi are thus emblems for a host of dangerously reactionary values and assumptions.
It’s a movie, people. Get over yourselves.