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Heroism in the Office

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Modern masculinity walks a real fine line these days, that line becomes even slimmer in an office setting. From the 60s to the early oughts, the easiest way to frame a romantic lead as the protector was simply to have him step in against an aggressor. Bonus points if the aggressor is larger in size or has more “intimidating allies. I’m talking about the biker who slaps a girl’s ass or the drunk frat boy who won’t take no for an answer, our heroine showing visible discomfort before the hero steps in. This scene played well until the late oughts then things changed.

The first thing to change was years of these scenes in the media making it socially clear that the aggressor was already in the wrong and the heroine being able to defend herself either socially with a flat out verbal rejection, use of a taser, or more recently her mary sue like combat training. These scenes didn’t necessarily ruin the romance but often provided an opportunity for the male romantic lead to either see her not as someone who needs to be protected but as an equal capable of being the protector if the situation calls for it. 

These scenes create a new problem, because now how can you show the age old dynamic of protector hero and delicate heroine. A dynamic many still enjoy. You can’t just rehash the tried and true aggressor without calling attention to all men as dangerous, even if there are “good ones”. It also frames women as being incapable of protecting themselves. Congrats you’ve alienated a portion of both sexes being independent women and those men who count themselves among the “not all men”. 

Here’s how Mobius threads the needle. In Episode 2, 28 minutes in, we are given a flight plan. Our romantic lead and main character Ding Qi and his potential romantic partner An Lan share an elevator ride. At first the ride is just the two of them catching her up on Ding Qi’s new position as security for her CEO and hints of intimacy brewing. Their intimacy gets interrupted by a flow of people onto the elevator making the space instantly cramped. Here’s where the protector dynamic starts, Ding Qi grabs two hand rails creating a safe space around An Lan who now occupies the corner of the car. As the elevator starts to move it’s important that we see insecurity and then comfort come over An Lan as she doesn’t have to rub shoulders and jostle with the office crowd because Ding Qi is shielding her. Ding Qi looks back at her and checks on her and they exchange glances letting him know that she is fine. Then after we see her smile a careless passenger steps on the foot of Ding Qi. Now normal social etiquette would have most people just be uncomfortable but that’s not what you’d want from a masculine hero. A modern masculine hero needs to stand up for himself in a socially acceptable way though. Ding Qi’s solution was to politely speak up “You’re on my foot.” loud enough that those in his vicinity could clearly hear him but soft enough that only those in his immediate vicinity would hear and everyone could pretend except the offender could pretend like they didn’t hear anything. This allows everyone to save face in the situation where the person stepping on his foot could move and everyone gets to pretend like nothing happened. However, the offender doesn’t move. This time loud enough for the entire car to hear and with an aggressive tone Ding Qi repeats himself, the man turns around sees the challenge and backs down. 

Ding Qi has successfully shown himself willing to protect the comfort of An Lan and stand up for himself against challenges but to do so in socially acceptable ways.

My key takeaways from this scene are

Use of escalating levels of conflict

Talk < Speak with Authority < Return Aggression < Physical

Protection must be given after consent, either implied or explicit 

An Lan puts herself behind Ding Qi and he pins her in the corner, giving her his back. Then checks on her for continued consent/approval.

None of this works if we as the audience don’t have the proper background music and explicit shots of the actors showing their changes in mood and approval. (great directing).

If written it’s easier to simply narrate the characters thoughts and feelings on the event.

Mobius 

https://www.netflix.com/watch/82096030?trackId=200257858&t=<1680&gt;

TechTemperance the dating App for Techno Puritans

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Techno puritan dating app “TechTemperance”

The Techno Puritan Federation has decided to monetize romantic evangelism. Taking a cue from the LDS singles churches, The Techno Puritans have gone digital. 

“It’s not about getting revenue from exploiting the lonely. It’s about solving a problem, and that’s why we don’t care about turning a profit from the app itself. It’s about creating a healthy and happy base for the Federation for generations to come.”

Critics of the App have stated that this nothing more than a russian funded orthodox christian honeypot, which seeks to exploit it’s users by funneling them into the cult, with it’s promises of creating “successful” relationships and by “successful” they mean explicitly hetrosexual relationship for the purpose of making women into baby factories. They’re advice is to “STEER CLEAR and STAY QUEER” direct words from Efreet Alimony (“Islam’s most progressive Imam” -Vanity unFare)

The Designers think that the applications unique restrictions, restrictions they brand as features, will allow users to spend enough time, digitally at first, with potential matches. Biological women who have hit their head on a rock and wish to use this handmaiden esq. App must have three other people, verified with phone numbers, facebook pages, and bank accounts, register as her guardians. These guardian’s will be given the profiles of potential matches and they will select the user’s potential matches. Those selected matches will be her only options for an entire month. Ladies and Gentlemen we have gone back to regency level women’s rights and a cavemen’s idea of women as property. Disguised as women’s safety. 

“We think that in the modern era, it’s not the fault of the 20 something looking for love, hopped up on hormones and hallmark romance, that women are vulnerable to ill intentioned actors. Having the courtier’s motives, online profile, and text’s via the app under the scrutiny of not just his potential wife but of some of her closest community. All of whom have the power to potentially veto the toxic actor, should give an extra sense of safety beyond sending a friend a screenshot of a man and a location where the murder investigation should start.”

Disregarding the attempts at humorizing the real threat every man poses against women, the App explicitly excludes Transgendered women from joining. While the App is free to biological Cis-women and their guardians, it does require a deposit which is forfeited if the user is found to be transgender. Not just shaming but to steal from our transgender sisters, another sign that the capitalist user licenses hold more power than the constitution.

When asked what if a woman doesn’t have three people who are willing to be her guardians.

“We don’t have the best answer for people who can not conduct themselves well enough to have friends or family…”

He then proceeded to offer me tips about how to find and make meaningful relationships. After my ears stopped bleeding from the ten thousandth time I’ve been mansplained too, we discussed the most controversial restriction the app demands. There are five levels of a potential relationship. If a user and her courtier advance themselves to level five, then the courtier has access to all the messages she made to others using the app and he can decide whether or not to remove the women’s ability to chat with other men.

All of these restrictions, or features, are meant to streamline dating so that marriage is reached within six months of a user and her courtier reaching level five. While we think that is operation warp speed levels of promise. The founder’s state that they have discounts and in most cases free access to their martial contract services, fancy words for prenuptial agreements.

The one nice thing I will say about this app is that for the desperate Biological Cis-gender Women is that once you decide to take back your life and leave the app. Your “commitment” deposit is returned promptly.

  • An interview with S.A. Tire.

To the Georgist Revival,

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No

My issue lies not with the immutable fact that all wealth is derived from physical property, for the rest is a thot upon your head. No, no no my issue with a land value tax is that until land value can accurately be assessed by market powers, it remains a levy of violence for which central authorities will, can, and are incentivized to abuse.

Opening all land up to the market as to determine it’s taxable value is the only way to decentralize assessment.

Example

Jake owns an apple orchard next to Jon’s wheat farm. Both are of equal size and the value of each has been determined equal. Jake has been making a killing selling apples and has a supreme profit, if he wished to expand his land he would need to purchase a third of Jon’s, the third bordering his property. Jon refuses to sell. That’s the end of it, for whatever reason Jon has decided that the production and potential supply of apples will be limited. Jon is sovereign over his farm and the choices made therein, it is his right.

But it is not a natural right bestowed by god that man should possess anything. Georgist acknowledge that Jon’s land belongs to the community and his participation in such community is not wholly a voluntary agreement. He supplies wheat and collects fiat to pay his tax bill, least he lose his farm to the violence of the state. But it is his right to deny Jake’s dreams of expansion. It is his right to deny balance between the supply and demand curve, by producing more wheat than the market optimally demands and denying it from a greater supply of apples.

Jon could petition the local governance and state that he is willing to purchase the portion of land for X dollars and as a result the governance can rely on Y increase in taxation. Jake could agree that he should now pay Y in taxes and if and when he fails to meet that tax rate upon the third he wishes to keep, then the sale will begin. Jake will receive X minus owed taxes and Jon will receive the land and be obligated to pay Y for a minimum time agreed upon by Jake. If Jon fails to make a payment then the land will be offered for repurchase by Jon at whatever rate Jon initially paid for it. Effectively resetting the tax rate of the land. The Governance body’s only position here is not to determine how much funds they need based on their quarterly salaries or what the value of the land is. The market has decided that the land is worth whatever someone will pay for it, not just in the sale but as a taxation burden upon the individual making the purchase.

I suspect that Georgism is seeing a revival because it does not conflict with the wealth holders of IP or trademark. The companies that can open a new factory halfway across the world to spend in fuel and logistics, just to save from taxation burden. Wealth is derived from the land; ores, veggies, and solar power have spatial requirements and produce wealth when extracted or cultivated. But which of these three are most valuable for the society, the free market will let you know who should steward this land for if they do no turn a profit and pay their tax than the land should not have the force of violence known by the label private property attached.

Limerence

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Black fades back.

The stone walls of the sacrifice room were lit only by a single red ritual candle. Amy could see with her new eyes as though it was bright as day from that single candles flicker. The glow from where the flame met the red wax hide which stones were covered in Josh’s burnt flesh and charred blood. The stone bricks and support beam overhead were lit by the the yellow of the flames tip, looks more Carrey and less Pollock she thought certainly intentional. A hunk of flesh splattered to her right as she approached the spot Josh summoned … well her new master. Speaking to the void his body stood moments ago. “And I thought we were going to spend the rest of my youth together. I was even going to give you a child or two. Now I guess I should thank you. I will be forever young and without want thanks to the introduction you’ve made for me tonight. Thank you, Josh,” Amy tilted her head at the last whole piece of Josh “Doll, what’s this?”

“Oh doll, it seems as though you’ve misplaced your heart as well.” Amy bent over at the hips, a perfect right angle, her new hair touched the stones before she grabbed Josh’s heart by the tips of her four inch stiletto like obsidian black nails. Her expression of childlike wonder as though looking upon a brightly colored raspberry ball of cotton candy. Her tongue moistened with the thought a taste at the last bit of love contained inside.

When her master said she would never be in want of food again and laughed was this is what he meant. The devil. She thought It wouldn’t be that easy being a dark one. Josh’s heart pulsed a weak beat with nothing to pump it was just a twitch. She should have been startled but her new body wasn’t fazed. Raising the heart to her lips she gave a quick sniff. Her master’s scent was faint but his magic and blood was all over Josh’s weak beating heart. Well I guess I’m not the only immortal he made tonight. Oh doll, we will be together forever now.

Upon exiting the sacrificial chamber, she eyed the shelves for the perfect container for her handheld immortal companion. Jars cliche, what am I suppose to keep it on my night stand. A wicker basket, ho but for the curious that’d be hard to explain, and while my skin is now red I won’t be on my way to grandma’s house soon. Doll’s that’ll be perfect. “Perfect, let’s find you a new body love.”

After much debate she decided upon a faded white patchwork doll wearing a suit. “Oh you will look so cute, my little executive Josh. Don’t worry about going to the office, I’ll be making the money around here. Your only job is to look at me with those big black orbs and let me see how beautiful and sexy I am in your eyes.”

Amy unbutton the top two buttons of the doll’s three button blazer but with her nails so long she couldn’t get a solid grip with the sides of her fingers. She grew angry with the length of her nails and they retreated from her stare back into her fresh blood red fingers. Neat. With the coat open she popped the stitches in the dolls chest and pulled out some of the fluff tossing it aside in disgust as though it’s texture was slime on he fingers. Josh’s heart continued to beat faintly pressed between her hand the doll’s chest. Was he gaining strength or was he excited with the idea of having a body?

“Pardon me miss, may I borrow this?” Amy spoke to another doll who had thread needles jammed over her felt eyes. Removing the needle caused the felt eye to fall on the floor. “Thank you.” She closed Josh’s open wound, fluff still leaking out. She buttoned up his coat and grabbed him by the tie as though it was a rope.

“Well I really only like the idea of having you. And now I’ll have you forever and without you leaving, lying, or just ruining it with your words… oh doll, you’ll be my favorite. Shame you thought you could have been the first. Let’s go doll.” Amy slung him over her shoulder “We are going to raise hell and bring our master’s paradise to earth.”

Amy’s hips swished wide with each step. Her new patchwork friend bouncing as any small sling bag would, held tight over her shoulder by it’s silk black tie. Joshua didn’t need to draw breath anymore, but the tie against his new throat still gave him the sensation of choking.

This has been a submission for “The Companion” prompt under the category of flash fiction. https://ironage.media/prompt/the-companion.html

Getting an air job

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“I just don’t trust the man.”

“But he’s got that good suit.”

“What’s that got to say about if he is about what he says he’s about?”

“Well, he ain’t no carpet bagger is what I am getting at.”

“That’s what I don’t trust, he talks like he comes from a big city and that good schoolin.”

“He’d have to be educated to be a recruiter for Robertson.”

“Ah, I ain’t buying what he is selling.”

“Would you buy into me though?”

“500 dollars, that’s a big ask.”

“I got half. I just need some pitch to get me over the line.”

“What are you going to eat after your last cent is in that man’s pocket?”

“I’ll find a way to eat.”

“Where are you going to sleep? In the gutters camped out with the Hoovers.”

“Once I’m in the air it won’t matter where my home is. I’ll live hanger to hanger, save on room and board, and I could catch a duck right out the window for feasting.”

“You just don’t understand. You gonna fail, come back here or die in that city’s gutter.”

“If I want it bad enough I can do it.”

“Guess you didn’t want it bad enough, then right?”

“But I do.”

“But if you did you’d have the 500 that man needs. You wouldn’t have spent your dimes and dollars on pulps and picture books. You would have been working not laying in the fields looking at the sky.”

“That ain’t fair.”

“Life never was.”

“I just need your pitch and I’ll pay you back.”

“Look if I just gave you the rest and you bounce out to St. Louis, with no money, no plan, no friends. You’ll be dreaming in the gutter, still a lay about.”

“Fine, then let me rain on your dreams for a change. It must be pretty powerful if you can stomach all those summer days digging ditches and pulling Turnbulls estate free of weeds.”

“You know I break my back so Pa doesn’t break my hide. I dream of getting enough to get away, but rent in the city starts at 25 dollars a month. And wages without learning would cause me to bleed out after half a year. That’s why I got what I got, I got a plan and I’m making it happen.”

“I’ll pay your rent.”

“What?”

“Look you, give me the pitch, use the rest to bleed out and before you do. I will pay all the rent.”

“You wouldn’t.”

“You calling me a liar?”

“I didn’t call you a liar.”

“Well, then I must be a truther and truth is, even if I can start to split the rent. You get your nice own apartment. I get hot water and with a few shined shoes or papers out, we’d have hot meals.”

“Sweeten it.”

“Fine, after I’m a full fledged pilot. I’ll pay all the rent for you forever.”

“To sweet.”

“Catch though…”

“Awe course, well?”

“I get to stay with you whenever I’m in the city. Drop of a hat.”

“Fair, now one last condition.”

“If you fail and ain’t a pilot-” “-Can’t fail-” “If you fail and ain’t a pilot. You kill my father and Buster Turnbull.”

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“You can’t just kidnapped people Pawnse.”

“I didn’t kidnapped no one, no how, good sir.”

“Then why is there a lady bound and gagged to our good chair?”

“What?!”

Bishop reaches his hand to remove the gag, a pair of Pawnse’s under-breeches, from the lady’s mouth.

“Wait!” Bishop’s hand stops shy of the rag. “You need to threaten em first so as not to scream and alert the neighbors?”

Bishop’s colour fades, “What neighbors we are in the middle of Darkwood? Some werewolf going to come and turn us into the town guard. The three day ride from here guard?”

The bound lady mumbles something and the rag gets wet with her spit. Her words were not screams under the rag.

“Don’t speak unless you are spoken to. Understood?” Bishop wagged a finger. She nodded

“Wait shouldn’t we be wearing our hoods? So she can’t pick us out of a line-up.”

“Pawnse just let me get this dam rag out her mouth and we can find out who tied her up with your scaling rope and stuffed her mouth with your breeches?”

“Alright suit yourself, she’s out to get us though, clearly it’s a trap. She was probably drugged and left her so that we’d get pinched for kidnapping. Rook probably set the whole thing up so that he ain’t got to pay for the last job.”

“MUMBLES!”

“See Bishop she is getting impatient, bet she is in on it, probably was told to get the location of the easel out of us?”

“Well if she is trying to get information out of us. I’d say she is doing a dam fine job so far. Hap’s you ought to be the one gagged.”

“Don’t you dare threaten to stuff mine or your breeches in my mouth. That ain’t right.”

“Then why did you do such to her?”

“I didn’t, I swears.”

“Unless you let me untied her and remove this gag, we only have half the story. And all the evidence saying you kidnapped this bit and brought her straight to our kitchen.”

“Look, I know how it looks but I didn’t kidnap no one.”

“MUMBLES”

“Just admit you did and why?”

“I had the thought of kidnapping a seer to help us with the Bezeus problem. But that was just a thought. And maybe some sketches.”

“You can’t just kidnap a seer.”

“Okay I had a really good plan though.”

“MUMBLES – screaming and nodding”

“Wait are you a seer?”

she nods her head.

“Pawnse, you kidnapped a seer?”

“I did not. It was just a thought. Ain’t no thought crime.”

“Did my friend Pawnse napp you miss?”

she meets eyes with Pawnse then shakes her head no slowly

“She is framing me Bishop. This is a set-up, I didn’t even get the chance to kidnap her yet, so I’m an innocent.”

“Alright, miss Seer, I’ll be removing your mouth piece now. I know you know I’d knock a tooth loose if you give an ear splitter.”

“Thank you, Mr. Bishop.” She cleared her throat and spoke nervously at Pawnse “Did I do good?”

Pawnse rolled his eyes, with a harumph, turning his body away to watch the front door. He felt off about this whole thing.

“What is your name?”

“I am Typhany, or just Tiff for short. I am of the third order of Archmedious.”

“How did you end up here in out kitchen?”

“I was going to be kidnapped, by your friend, he was going to be successful but there were going to a few casualties, I’d rather not have on my soul.”

“See I told you it was a good plan.”

“That’s why I decided to give myself up, in exchange for their futures. I kidnapped myself.”

“You can’t kidnap a seer, Ha bet you feel the fool there Bishop.”

IMO The Thousand Cock Stare

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The Thousand Cock Stare is a term in the Manosphere referring to the look of a woman who has not only hit the wall but has ridden the cock carousel so much that she has destroyed her ability to pair-bond and be satisfied with any partner for long.

Hot Take:

The premise is flawed.

Imagine your mind is a boat on a wide open ocean…

The older you get the more cargo you take on, the bigger that ship gets.

The bigger that ship is the harder it is for it to turn course.

The problem is that the manosphere says that pair bonding can occur after the age of 22 if only she has kept her partner count low.

The flaw in this premise is that if the ship at 30 is an oil tanker

the manosphere believes that at age 22 the ship can still easily right it’s sails

but by that point in a persons experience their ship is the size of a cruise ship,

It’s course is largely set and changing direction is easily and faster than that of the tanker,

But the capacity for pair bonding has already been determined.

15

is when the Seinfeld began grooming his bride

15

is largely when romantic and partner experience start to enter a person’s cargo hold

UNDERSTAND I am not advocating grooming or pedophile.

So 18 then so this all legal and well

at this age an adult woman will have had 3 years of experience in relationships and much less baggage.

This isn’t a question of pair-bonding because by and large I don’t think pair-bonding is a given trait. Since many cultures exist just fine without strict pair-bonding relationship and our society at least the working class portion will see it dissolve into either religious based pairs and secular open relations.

This is a matter of learned and repetitive behavior.

If you’ve read the Art of Seduction by Robert Greene,

or your familiar what to do after the honeymoon fades.

Then you should understand that after the initial attraction has faded their are steps to take that reignite lost flames and introduce excitement where and when appropriate. In order to keep things fresh for you and your partner.

It doesn’t matter whether or not a 30 or even 40 something took a good long ride on the cock carousel.

If her life experience is well adjusted to being alone, she will be unable to “pair-bond” just the same.

Because her life and experience consists largely without you and even with 30 more years of a successful marriage, this won’t prevent divorce because as people age and start to fall into routines the some of many experiences are blend into few and their cargo space is reduced.

You know how the days are long but the weeks are short and the years fly by.

The whole time she will remember the many highlights of varied experience from her 20 years before you came and unless you provide equally varied and memorable experiences than you are the one causing jeopardy in your relationship.

The number of cocks doesn’t matter

Its the number of experiences.

I’ll be honest those experiences increase the cost of maintaining a long term relationship, whether or not she was a rider or not. The Honeymoon phase gives you a hormonal boost to meet her cost expenditure. It’s not that you stop giving the same it’s that the hedonistic treadmill will mean that unless you’ve adopted a healthy abuse spiral, then your Honeymoon bonus goes away and now you have to expend more effort. Simply for her to adjust to that effort and demand more.

This isn’t a result of the stare, or the wall. This is just the way it is.

If you want a long term relationship with a single woman. You can’t front load all your effort in the relationship and expect to just coast.

You must intentional go through periods of drought and willful deprive, so that you can spin out of that and back into the romance closer to when you first started.

Pair-bonding, the stare, and the wall

are preached by the divorced casualties and the red pill ragers

to those who start this rabbit hole after their first clash with reality.

In summary read the Art of Seduction by Robert Greene

and understand now more than ever it’s on men to decide when and how long to engage with a partner.

Be informed and

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Why does Trump want his name on the checks?

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Two reasons:

First he is egotistical and understands that his name being associated with the relief will but trust or more trust in his well cultivated personal brand that TRUMP equals SUCCESS.

Second anyone who opposes secretly or openly this relatively benign action will be removed from the treasure and the federal reserve of which Trump has power over.

Is this a good thing?

Depends whose side your on

For a staunch Anti-federalist as myself. This is a harmless action with a net zero impact.

For a Democrat this is another reason to dislike Trump… which has a net zero impact on the way you were going to vote.

For a Republican this is a victory for moral and bragging rights, possibly allowing closest conservatives to support Trump behind his more vocal base.

For the 46% of Americans who didn’t show up to the polls in 2016, because they have tuned out of politics and government in general. This may tip more votes in Trump’s favor come NOV 2020. After all his opponent has been a sitting member of congress for over two careers and has zero name recognition with this turned out apathetic majority.

It would be a better democratic strategy to press that Trump’s name is on the check and therefore he is taking personal responsibility for those negatively affected by our current crisis.

But they won’t do that or at least they won’t do that well enough to gain an equal portion of the 46% apathetic votes, that this move will give Trump.

Final thoughts

Love him or hate him Trump won because he understands how to spin success out of straw and he knows that all publicity is good publicity.

The worst thing anyone can do is not talk about a thing

The second best thing in marketing is if someone talks bad about that thing

And the best thing is if someone trusted talks well about that thing.

Man I wish someone would talk about my works even unfavorable and passionately as they do about

Trump

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The Replicator Defense

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I want to live in a Star Trek future.

A world free of poverty, hunger, where all the sovereign nations co-exist peacefully.

Universal Basic Income (UBI) would be a step in this direction. But when talking with my fellow trekkies who believe we are living in a world of scarcity they fall quickly onto The Replicator Defense.

“Of course they have no poverty or hunger in Star Trek. They have replicators. They can just make food out of thin air.”

If there is anything that upsets a nerd more it’s the type of statement that invokes the response.

“Ummm… Actually.”

Replicators and even Protein Re-sequencers existed after the abolishion of poverty. In Star Trek canon this is due to the drastic decrease in population after World War 3. With a high level of technology and a massive decrease in population resulted in the creation of a post-scarcity society, with little to no governing authority preventing a drunk, Zefram Cochrane, from re-purposing a nuclear missile into a warp capable spaceship. (for fun)

Replicators just make the system easier… they were not the catalyst for the change in the first place.

People have a hard time accepting that with current farming techniques we can sustainably feed the worlds population (7 billion) three times over before we run into a scarcity of land over the preservation of unique and local ecosystems. We don’t have a resource problem. We have a distribution problem. We have an incentive problem.

There is no automatic incentive for feeding and housing people.

Capitalist hotels serve good food so that they can get repeat customers and earn a profit.

Communist hostels serve people good food because they depend on the social benefit those patrons add to the commune. If John starves he won’t be able to raise the hogs that make my favorite bacon dish.

Feudalist inn’s serve as quarters for the lords militia, a way station for merchants and travelers. The Inn-keeper was born into keeping, maintaining, and services expected of his position or else face punishment from his lord.

Egalitarian societies have never grown large enough to require the creation of a hotel/hostel/inn.

UBI creates a floor of value on every individuals life, regardless of birth, skill, or ability. It quantifies the charitable notion that no one deserves to starve to death for lack of resources as having value in capitalist economy.

No American Citizen Deserves to potentially Starve to Death.

That is why I support the Freedom Dividend as proposed by Andrew Yang.

With love as always,

HngyHngyHppo

A letter to my highschool economics teacher.

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I’m glad that my meme’s are provoking thought but they are first and foremost propaganda so that my friends and family believe and value themselves more than how a company treats them poorly. While my pay is mathematically (according to inflation calculations that include medial and housing) far below the media income of the 1950s or the federal minimum wage that was set in the late 70s, I love my job. I only work three nights a week and earn enough to pay my portion of the bills. It gives me the time and opportunity to work on my novellas and pursue a career writing stories that hopefully will promote literacy for men age 18-25, who have been taught by school that reading is for nerds and girls.

Now onto what I really think about businesses in general, they are not evil organizations out only for the bottom line. Meritorious advancement exists as a function of a healthy market, If you are not advancing your best employees your competition will. They will gain market share and put you out of business. If you treat your employees to poor they will quit and you will be unable to preform the companies function. These are the reasons why we have such great working conditions.

Yet people need to understand that if they are using cognitive dissonance to excuse their company they must separate their identity from the company before they can make healthy decisions regarding their life. Most my memes are to this point. The company is out for profit not your welfare.

I truly believe we are kept from a full communist revolution because most companies are public traded. Rational people understand that a company exists to provide a good or service and that the CEO and board make decisions to maximize the profits for the share holders. Such shares that can be purchased by the very employees that the company employees. For example US Foods, which just purchased the company I work for, has 25,000 employees and 35% equity retained within the company. Which means that 65% is publicly extended for purchase at about 40$ per share, IF the employees wanted to they could become the principal shareholders for $12,500 each. If they want 51% collaborative voting rights that would be 65,800 each. But they don’t, they have the choice and they would rather keep their coin then make their company work for them. Publicly owned companies dominate because they have the power of the people financing them, their is a hard cap on the resources a privately owned company can call to bear.

I use this argument to explain why a CEO deserves 250x the wage of the lowest paid worker, because his/her wage is determined by the value added to the shareholders whom the low wage workers choose not to be.

Second and this is the point of most of my memes, If a company is treating you unfairly. You need to leave. Because unlike buying a car when an individual is negotiating with a company they are actually negotiating not for themselves but for the next guy. I have been made aware of companies that have raised their starting wage because after months of finding suitable candidates that turn down the offered position due to pay and benefits.

If you’d like an IRL example at my wife’s work, she has received healthcare benefits and pay raises because other people have left her position and stated healthcare and pay were their primary concern. Is she still underpaid, according to similar market positions, yes by about $2 per hour. But she loves her job and we do not work for money. After her company raises benefits and wages, they do not call back old employees who left over those concerns. Instead the new hires and my wife reap the rewards of people making the best market choice for themselves.

Now let me explain why the freedom dividend will do so much more to improve a healthy working relationship between employee and employer. 1K per month is not enough money for an individual to stop working and enjoy the offerings that minimum wage work provides. People will still work if they want cable, Netflix, internet, Iphones, dinners out, etc. But it will Provide courage to those who are in low wage jobs that barely pay the rent to ask for more or leave thus providing more the next guy. It is just enough money to prevent homelessness and allow people the freedom to move away from the Democratic socialist dens of NY, Denver, CALI and form smaller communities among the country side, with a guaranteed income moving across state lines to pursue employment at a job that might not work out is less of a threatening proposition. Many people are moving to CO because we offer higher wages, we do so because we have higher cost of living, Some will be able to move back after saving money for a few years. Others will never be able to move back because the wages offered by their home city wouldn’t be enough for them to make minimum payments on their credit cards.

Okay enough of that,

I use OpenOffice writer (Apache suites) and spell check through e-mail, a free writing software with no spell check.

And yeah I hope in the future people are working not because the choice is that or starvation and homelessness but because like me they enjoy the work they are doing.

Because until I can raise enough funds through selling my novellas to open a studio dedicated to their production, I need a day job. You can help on this front of course, My premiere work is only 99 cents for the eBook. It’s target audience is men 18-25. I know this isn’t you but your reach is vast and if you give it read, endorse my efforts. I’m sure you know exactly who to pass this onto with your blessing so that it can continue to reach young minds, raise reading speeds, and rekindle the lost love of literacy in the next generation.

Let me know if you would like me to provide you with a free copy. While I am trying to raise funds to further improve the quality and reach of this program, what’s important is the end result.

For instance my beta-reader after reading this within a week, started and finished DUNE in under 2 months. He had taken a 2 year break from reading longer works and wasn’t considering starting again.

(Note: this book contains sex in the second half of Act 3 – Longhorn Gold and Criostal) (this is not erotica and that portion can be skipped without any negative effects on the plot.)

Here is a link if you choose to help I’d be ever so grateful,

Much love,

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