Comments on: The traditional yeomanry is losing out

By: Steven JBC

Steven JBC — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 05:50:56 +0000

Actually Henry Ford didn’t originally raise wages so that his workers could afford automobiles; that would be self-defeating. He lowered costs by perfecting the assembly-line and adopting “Taylorization” of his workforce; but then had to pay his workers more because they hated the incessant never-ending routine of those assembly lines. There is something dehumanizing, almost robotic, in being the man who only installs the right-side door continuously. Eventually auto workers received the right to work “down-the-line”, rotating tasks to reduce the mind-numbing monotony.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 23:21:39 +0000

Oy vey, Pseudo-Chrysostem is beginning to appreciate the capitalist menace…

By: VXXC

VXXC — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 15:15:16 +0000

Petit Bourgeois singing the Blues…

The Most Important Man In History [hint, Charlie Chaplin moustache] had the middle class correct: selfish, useless, except to themselves. They cater to the Rich today; tomorrow they’ll be pimping their kids to the Rich. Essentially this class exists to give troublesome have a little will sell souls for more something to do, telling themselves they’re businessmen.

As for the non-profits, that they are anything but isn’t news, either. So the petit bourgeoisie won’t be small businessmen; they’ll be in non-profit.

C_ntZ all the way down.

By: JAW3

JAW3 — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 13:36:36 +0000

Re non-profits, I accessed the Kellog Foundation page to see who they are being ultra libs and the management page is a bloated group of talkers, not doers. And the universities as non-profits should have to be regulated at least as tightly as corporations. IMO. They are all getting away with grand theft of value.

By: Contaminated NEET

Contaminated NEET — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 11:53:10 +0000

Gatto is great. Classroom education is evil.

By: Mike in Boston

Mike in Boston — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 03:27:16 +0000

"Do you have links to the original sources?" They are from John Taylor Gatto's Underground History of American Education.

By: Bile Jones

Bile Jones — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 14:12:46 +0000

Pseudo-Chrysostom, thanks for the links. They really do focus on the problems. Do you have links to the original sources?

By: Adar

Adar — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 15:09:23 +0000

“I would much rather see billionaires invest in businesses in minority communities than fund nonprofits that donate to BLM.”

Not a bad idea. Just all the billionaires donate a minimum one-time $10 million to an endowment to give generous small business loads to minority communities.

About 400 billionaires in the USA right now. Just do the math and that is a huge endowment.

By: DJF

DJF — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 22:10:35 +0000

“I would much rather see billionaires invest in businesses in minority communities than fund nonprofits that donate to BLM.”

This comment is typical of Kling’s cluelessness. He’s clueless about both (1) the motives behind corporate donations to BLM and (2) the likely results of the business investment that he “would much rather see.”

By: Gavin Longmuir

Gavin Longmuir — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 16:36:39 +0000

Bomag: “Plus, the business model is more “sell a new product, don’t fix the old one”; thus fewer repair shops for harder to fix things with harder to get parts.”

The only constant is change. There may be a future big opportunity in repair shops if — as expected — imports of new products from China increase in price and decline in volume as the US Dollar inevitably drops to a level that eliminates the unsustainable Trade Deficit.

We could imagine a kind of kinder gentler scrap yard using abandoned shopping malls. People would bring in their non-functional toasters in part payment for restored toasters. Great opportunities for people with the tools and knowledge to scavenge working parts from failed appliances and piece together functional equipment.