Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "VICE News"
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Christopher,
You don't seem to be paying attention here, boy. Nobody has taken away your right to say anything you want (although maybe you should try some WD-40 on your caps-lock key), but what you're sounding off about here has nothing to do with the subject of the video: Trump's stupid random tariffs.
And it's not a left-right problem. All your loud "COMMUNIST" nonsense is irrelevant. It's a 17th-Century vs 21st-Century problem: Trump's ideas of economics are the barstool wisdom of the pub where they tie their horses up three hundred years ago. He's waa-ay out of date.
We understand economics better today -- not perfectly, but better. Today we know that slapping random taxes on people if they buy something you think they shouldn't is a stoo-pid way of growing an economy, a stoo-pid way of creating jobs, and an infantile way of behaving.
Trump, in these videos, is taking jobs away from A and giving them to B -- and he doen't even know he's doing it, that's how far he is from reality.
So get yerself a can of WD-40 for your keyboard. Then a beer for yourself maybe. And then maybe sit down, listen to the video again, paying attention this time. And see if you can think it through.
Poor Donnie can't.
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When I started the coin laundry industry in Japan in 1972, one of the things I had going for me was the blindness of my potential competitors. The fish can't see water problem: Japanese decision-makers were utterly blind to important realities about Japan.
One of these important realities was working women. "Oh, no, Japanese women just get married and settle down," was the airy, i.e. empty-headed, sort of generalization I would hear. "But so and so," women that we both know, "is working," I would protest. "Yes, but that's just part-time."
Government figures confirmed what they said. Part-time work was defined as work that did not lead to a pension, and since women were not awarded pensions for most jobs, it followed that they were working part-time. Part-time for a job did not mean part-time for the worker. A working-class woman with a baby and a toddler might very typically deliver newspapers from 4:30 to six, scurry home to make breakfast, then off to an hour or so as a crossing guard, then to six, eight or ten hours of looking after a shop, secretarial work, or industrial production.
I once visited a tourist town, mostly a scenic collection of whorehouses out in the mountains, and my host pointed with pride to an array of multi-storey "tea-houses" by the river. "During the war, they produced the fuses for all the anti-aircraft shells," he said. By then the girls were spending their off-hours putting export gee-gaws into plastic packing, boxes, and shipping containers. That was forty years ago, and I imagine such, ahem, work-houses have been off-shored to Indonesia, Vietnam, and perhaps even India and Malaysia.
The actual facts were that women on average joined the workforce younger, left it older (because, of course, they didn't have pensions), and were employed at a higher rate in all age cohorts in between (because smaller proportions of them were students, business owners, or otherwise free not to work).
In the gig economy, I think we can expect similar degrees of unreality about the definitions of "facts" and in the reporting of conditions. In construction in Canada, for instance, the dangers of various sectors are misreported because of workers' natural care for each other. Vast swaths of injuries go unreported simply because, what the hell, it's just going to get the guy in trouble. Contrariwise, some specialities seem more dangerous than they actually are because if someone has a serious injury, e.g. breaking their back falling off a roof, people will rally around to get the victim added to some category that actually gets Workmens' Comp, rehab, or whatever is needed but not actually covered in their situation.
There are huge distractions and misdirections across industry, caused by good intentions, bad intentions, and sad, misdirected, incentives.
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