OMG Bryce, no more Twinkies....

kennethdaysale · 11-18-12, 08:27 AM

Joe Like you I don't have all the answers, but I do have some observations. Disclaimer: I have lived my entire adult life in the deep south and have never to my knowledge even met a union worker.

It would seem that we have more than a little in common, we're roughly the same age, have a college degree and have worked most if not all our lives on commission. Reading your post, it seems to me you're flipping between
someones "worth" as a person versus their worth in the market. Certainly you'll meet some very poor people with a heart of gold and some extremely wealthy people who are scalawags, that has always been and always will be true. If being "good" was somehow a measure of someones monetary worth then Mother Teresa would have of course been a billionaire. Don't get sentimental about it, it's business, nothing else. Colleges don't offer degrees in goodness.

People have different goals and ambitions and abilities. During my career I hired hundreds of employees, everything from janitorial and clerical people to high profile sales reps and branch managers. I found that the best hires had one thing in common, whether they were labourers or highly skilled "degreed" people. They had a drive and a hunger to succeed that went far deeper than just their typing speed or the initials after their name. Sometimes it seemed to come from their upbringing, sometime it was just a competitive spirit, sometimes it was hard to tell where it came from, but you could just tell that they had "it".

The current unemployment thing is a cycle just like any other cycle. Cycles come and go. In the end we do live in a class society and rightfully so. There will always be people needed to wait tables and pick up the trash and stuff creme filling in twinkies. There will always be people whose goal is to be the best waiter, trashman and line worker they can be and nothing more. There will also always be that particular waitress(the one thats got "it") that wants the hostess job, then shift manager, then restuarant manager, then buy her first Applebees franchise, then another ..... .

Generally speaking of course, it seems to me that the people that hate capitalism and free markets just don't get "it".

11-18-12, 08:27 AM	#26
kennethdaysale BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: rock hill, sc Posts: 2,315	Joe Like you I don't have all the answers, but I do have some observations. Disclaimer: I have lived my entire adult life in the deep south and have never to my knowledge even met a union worker. It would seem that we have more than a little in common, we're roughly the same age, have a college degree and have worked most if not all our lives on commission. Reading your post, it seems to me you're flipping between someones "worth" as a person versus their worth in the market. Certainly you'll meet some very poor people with a heart of gold and some extremely wealthy people who are scalawags, that has always been and always will be true. If being "good" was somehow a measure of someones monetary worth then Mother Teresa would have of course been a billionaire. Don't get sentimental about it, it's business, nothing else. Colleges don't offer degrees in goodness. People have different goals and ambitions and abilities. During my career I hired hundreds of employees, everything from janitorial and clerical people to high profile sales reps and branch managers. I found that the best hires had one thing in common, whether they were labourers or highly skilled "degreed" people. They had a drive and a hunger to succeed that went far deeper than just their typing speed or the initials after their name. Sometimes it seemed to come from their upbringing, sometime it was just a competitive spirit, sometimes it was hard to tell where it came from, but you could just tell that they had "it". The current unemployment thing is a cycle just like any other cycle. Cycles come and go. In the end we do live in a class society and rightfully so. There will always be people needed to wait tables and pick up the trash and stuff creme filling in twinkies. There will always be people whose goal is to be the best waiter, trashman and line worker they can be and nothing more. There will also always be that particular waitress(the one thats got "it") that wants the hostess job, then shift manager, then restuarant manager, then buy her first Applebees franchise, then another ..... . Generally speaking of course, it seems to me that the people that hate capitalism and free markets just don't get "it". __________________ Sometimes you gotta risk it to get the biscuit.

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