Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "More Perfect Union" channel.

I don't need anyone to buss my tables, serve me coffee etc because eating out is a waste of money. The USPS is tax funded and private carriers can either pay enough or shut down. Teaching is another government job which can either be appropriately compensatied or there will be no workers. Alternate option (for all the rich new arrivals) is out of state boarding school. Not everyone needs to be able to live everywhere, and smart people plan our lives to be mobile. If an area is popular then that's a warning to leave when you can cash out for a profit. I do not live in popular areas because growth ruins them for everyone who isn't rich. If your entire live isn't systematically devoted to economic survival you're doing it wrong, and that includes planning LONG in advance to not live in areas which WILL become expensive. Wyoming didn't happen overnight. Life is war, a long grim struggle demanding exhaustive planning. Of course I don't live in Wyoming for the same reasons I escaped New Jersey decades ago. This reality will not change so instead of pretending that's practical best to save your own bacon.
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Most of the problem is chasing competent men away from primary school education because they're assumed to have ulterior motives. My high school teachers were often WWII and Korean conflict veterans and uniformly excellent. Male students need male role models in the classroom because they often have no positive male role models in their life.
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@Specialcowgirl69 Even better is physiotherapy since you don't have the hassles nurses do. No one dies for lack of PT/OT so there's far less stress and less liability. My sister is raking in bank working in a high end hospital on the west coast. Medicine will remain wide open so never stop building your skill set. There's no reason a competent nurse couldn't retire young and well off if they use wise financial management. (Key to early retirement is living BELOW your financial means which also gives you an emergency cash cushion.
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Find your local small pharmacy and patronize them instead. Chains run by MBAs do not care about their workers, normal for they US whose culture abandoned the concepts of integrity and shame.
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You aren't forced to unless you choose conventional financing or a contract requiring insurance as a condition.
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If my career were that bad I would change my career. It's better to be a truck or other mechanic than an operator and the work isn't hard to learn.
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@gregorymalchuk272 They should have known Scouts were a very niche model vulnerable during the gas crisis and subsequent economic disaster. Great trucks though and if they'd galvanized them would still be here in droves.
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Spectator sports keep America distracted and ignorant. Watching someone exercise is like watching someone eat steak. Go DO something useful instead.
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Stop regulating fishing and let the fishermen sort it out voluntarily If the fish get wiped out then that's on them. The US doesn't require fish to survive, consumers merely like it. No one is going to perish from lack of fish. America only needs seafood sales so those selling it can make a profit.
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Most voters only truly care about social morality issues because they can't stand the idea of someone being different than them. They view difference as an insult to their lives they imagine exemplary.
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@chiapets2594 Who elects the government? THE VOTERS DO and never own their mistakes.
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I do very little business where tipping would ever be an issue because most of those transactions waste money. I only tip for quality service and tip in cash while telling staff that's so they don't have to share it with the boss. I get great service.
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The average human isn't intelligent. That can never be different. The average voter votes on a single issue so if you give them that they'll sell their souls (assuming they had souls to sell).
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Koch buys influence by donating to popular right wing causes (some of which I agree with). This buys them immunity because Americans are single-issue voters and our system only has two political parties that will ever matter. Voters vote but they do NOT hold their OWN side accountable, they are not smart enough to figure out not everyone who agrees with you is your friend.
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Smart people become mechanics because civilization stops without machinery. I chose aircraft because it's a very nice life but enjoy all kinds of wrenching including industrial. I have NEVER (I'm old) met a good mechanic who didn't have more work available than they could do in a lifetime. Because wrenching rewards experience there is no shortcut for noobs to outcompete the old guys.
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Strike on! Without collective bargaining workers would have no rights and the eight hour workday would not exist.
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Shock WHO? This was foreseeable and foreseen so there is no excuse for failure to prepare by not living there in the first place. Do people really just buy homes without cold, pragmatic, methodical planning?
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New furniture is trash so I hunted quality used furniture for much less money. BTW this works even better when you buy in/from a region where the style you like is unfashionable, like Danish Modern outside wealthy urban areas. Most people don't know their options and just follow the herd as if the herd were smarter than they are.
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No one is going to get the crazies to take their meds without returning to the expensive carceral mental institutions some of whose methods may well be illegal. Drunks don't want to get better and neither do junkies. The only homeless people who can be helped are the ones with self-discipline. The US is not Finland. Our poor people are illiterate, frequently savage and are mostly at the end of a life their own adult choices ruined. Can More Perfect Union address that part or is only an oppression narrative acceptable? As for housing the poor do not make good or safe company which is why anyone with a choice moves far away from them. There are indeed SOME victims but many more did it to themselves. I've met my share. I used to think like a stereotypical progressive then I moved around the US and got a more detailed, up close look at reality. A major part of the problem is the poor wanting to live in expensive cities in the first place. Aid should require relocation to affordable areas, not maintain people where they should not want to live. If they were smart and wise and mentally competent they would not be poor so their desires should be disregarded by their charitable benefactors. No possible good can result from keeping financially dependent people where they will never be able to advance. Cities are bad and living in cities is bad (unless you are rich) so wanting to live in cities is wrong, period full stop. House the hopeless elsewhere so they are not concentrated in housing which (because they live there) goes the way of failed public housing projects. As long as poor people are in cities they will remain poor. Put them where they fit in.
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The SOLE REASON Hyundai located in Alabama is they figured the locals would be brainwashed against collective bargaining. Korean companies don't even care about Koreans.
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The public are responsible because the public are savages who resent education, resent learning and would rather drool on their shoes watching useless fiction. In a democratic republic everything is the voters fault via inaction or action.
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Boeing should be nationalized because it's a strategic military asset critical to national defense. The Arsenal system worked (and what's left of it works) superbly but it doesn't make grifters rich.
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Many dying small towns are dying due to economic changes. Never forget communities are built around economic resources and when those disappear the community is functionally obsolete. Hospitals leave emptying hinterlands that emptied because they're not economically viable. Choose where you live ruthlessly and wisely.
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These senior management droids have no reason not to consume companies because companies exist for SHORT TERM PROFITS. They're no better than health care CEOs... BTW none of this excuses delicate trash designs because every design is an informed choice. When Ford closed Mahwah the writing was on that long-ago wall so I avoided the auto industry which cannot be considered secure employment. Consolidation has been the rule since before WWII.
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More garbage no one needs so not eating it is a feature not a bug. Deny them your money because they respond to nothing else.
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They need to CLOSE Waffle Houses in violent hoods like other stores shut down. Where are the incidents actually occurring? That matters but may be shall we say controversial.
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@hhjhj393 I'd post requests on social media to find FSBO sales. My first home which I still own was FSBO which was great because it doesn't show up on a credit check leaving me able to buy my second home while paying off the first. I looked for minimum five acres and agricultural zoning with no or few renters and farm houses good enough to renovate (doing all your own work saves tons of money so my wife and I did).
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That's a huge surprise since the south is culturally so submissive to employers, WELL DONE!
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The public elect the problem. If they unarse their heads they can stop electing problems but that requires effort to learn the details of civic duty in a democratic republic. Systems are made by and of people so it's not structures but the voters who decide how the worst quality of government they choose to install.
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No xamination of trucking is complete without examining how some drivers are set up to fail while others prosper. Being an owner-operator is often a trap set by the company to offload its expenses. Remember the object of a job is MONEY and even the prettiest rig is as expendable as a used condom. When you make payments on a depreciating expensive asset that machine is nothing but a ball and chain.
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John Deere have been scvmbags for many years. Like nearly all modern businesses they're run by parasites not patriots. Ask the farmers they prevent from fixing their own machinery. No POTUS can save jobs, that's just theater for the dummies who take what they say seriously. Americans aren't collectively intelligent enough to fix America because modern society is far too complex for a population that on average reads therefore thinks at 8th grade level. BTW NAFTA was completely bipartisan and if you think I'm kidding check who voted for it. Our public elect grifters because they're not smart enough to know better.
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Civilization literally runs on copper and the backwaters consumed by its extraction are no loss by comparison. Why should a few thousand people hold back national progress?
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In other news, before air conditioning made it liveable there weren't many people who insisted on living in North America's deserts. Things will only get worse so plan wisely and let the snowbird boomers waste their money. Being rich they won't notice.
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Escape while you can. It's too late.
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Cities are bad so I don't live in one. Growth ONLY makes life harder on existing non-rich residents so if you see rich people moving to a location you're wise not to follow them even if you are also rich because that will only cost you money. The US is enormous but people insist on mobbing coastal cities because they're not very bright outside their specialty.
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The channel is already open but the bridge should be replaced by a tunnel or the harbor remains vulnerable to blockage. Facilities should also be built further out so cargo can be unloaded outside that area. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTWEBMB6HKQ
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We need MORE CITIES, not more housing in the overcrowded cities we have. The middle of the US is basically empty. Everyone crowding into the same coastal spaces is bad so I went the opposite direction. Smart people don't want expense, don't want neighbors, and do want freedom.
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There is no hope of positive change without imposing credible fear on enemy personnel, and that takes people with nothing left to lose. When a business model produces customers with nothing left to lose one or two of millions resisting by targeting enemy leadership should be expected.
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America does not deeply believe in personal freedoms beyond the Second Amendment. Legalization where it happens was allowed by politicians out of pure greed and nothing else. Bodily sovereignty is a minority concern in a nation whose culture has always been fiercely rustic, conformist and oppressive. VOTERS are responsible for the Republic and since most of them are morons on a good day (see who our elections elevate to high office if you thing that's harsh) we get political hacks who are FORCED to pander to the yowling beastmob.
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Sorting those problems requires self-mastery, planning, and focus. Most people are silly so ignore them and only associate with capable smart humans you can learn from. (Then one day others will learn from you.) The following worked for me. I am not rich but lack nothing. The more you can do yourself the further any or no money goes, and the more you can do the more you can do for yourself. Learn to maintain and repair everything you own. Make knowledge your entertainment and have zero useless hobbies or interests. Learn to work on cars because that includes electrical, hydraulic and mechanical systems. Wrenching saves money for life and lots of it. Labor costs these days make owning your own tools a bargain. My wife was a skilled helicopter mechanic and my mum worked on WWII PBY Catalina flying boats. Just do it. Learn to DIY everything your house and other structures require. Learn to work on computers at a basic level (troubleshooting, OS reload etc) if you use one. Take formal training when you can. Have more than one skill. Your local community colleges is an underused resource. (I took welding and CNC machining to expand what I can do in my home shop, volunteered in return for more shop time, then worked for the school for a couple of years as they like to hire from within.) Many courses are effectively free, especially low income workforce training programs. The Financial Aid folks exist to find you money. Do not aspire to any work that's easy to automate. Forget office work as those jobs are easy to outsource. Do learn skills which require a human on the spot. Do not assume everything will be automated then do things impractical to automate. Most poverty is self-inflicted. Choose skills that pay well and gets or can sustain you far away from your home (too many people never leave the state they were born in). Military, Merchant Marine, welder (many females have better fine motor coordination males including some welders I worked with), electrician (they never lack work), HVAC (stick to commercial work, my bro makes a mint repairing convenience store chillers because the owners refuse to upgrade which is common) etc are options most of which give you DIY skills that serve you for life. If you can't find work that means you chose wrongly so choose something different. My "turd herder" bro learned wastewater management in the military and had so many job offers he left after his first enlistment. Unless humans stop defecating he will always have work. Think outside the box because the box is a prison of conformity.
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Assembly jobs are inherently bad for human bodies and should be automated out of existence, but the companies EXTERNALIZE the health costs to the general public making them even worse. I will never buy Rivian. Vote with your wallet because these companies are vulnerable.
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The auto market is saturated with expensive crap so losing excess companies is not a bad thing.
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Americans aren't too bright so most of them abandoned collective bargaining instead of getting involved and making it work. When every worker imagines they're special that ensures disunity and a bucket of crabs mentality. I've worked in good and indifferent union shops in my youth which is why I chose a field where collective bargaining is not required. Workers can have collective bargaining at their command but the uneducated (education is much more than showing up for school, it requires individual initiative) working classes are their own worst enemies.
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