The Executive Class Has Always Believed That Unskilled Labor Deserves To Be Low-Paid & Disposable
By David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website)
Overview
Many employers think they are entitled to a pool of starvation-wage workers.
When that pool got shallow in the 1960s, American executives pivoted from a policy of bringing cheap, foreign labor to the job to bringing the job to cheap, foreign labor.
Now that the market is forcing an increase in wages, employers are demanding some kind of action to keep wages low rather than see them increase in response to a fictitious “labor shortage.”
Historical Perspective
European Nobility Built Its Wealth On The Backs Of Peasants
In the centuries prior to…
The Risk of Getting Very Sick from Being UNvaccinated Is about 5,000 Times Greater than the Risk of Getting Very Sick from The Vaccine
By David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website)
Here Are The Numbers
Where do those numbers come from? You can Google the stats and check them out yourself.
Infections, Hospitalizations & Death Numbers
More than 115,500,000 Americans have gotten infected with Covid. Of that number about 608,000 have died and about 5,964,000 have been hospitalized.
Percentage Of Infected People Hospitalized & Killed
That means that 608,000/115,500,000 or about .53% of infected people died from Covid and about 5,964,000/115,500,000 or 5.16% of those infected became seriously ill from Covid and about 5.7% …
Some Trump supporters are so afraid of being vaccinated that they would prefer to get pneumonia
Well, it didn’t take long.
On July 13, 2021 I published this column about stupid people who choose to risk getting COVID rather than getting vaccinated: Intelligent People Who Choose To Do Stupid Things Are Stupid People. Those who choose to believe the lies that COVID is a fake disease have chosen to be stupid people
Preferring To Get Pneumonia AGAIN Than Be Vaccinated
On July 21, 2021 CBS News published a story about Louisiana resident and proud Republican, Scott Roe, hospitalized with COVID and pneumonia, who said that if he had it to do all over again he would…
Check out the numbers on the poverty, health & %age of college graduates of the states that had the highest percentage of Trump voters
By David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website)
People have spent a good deal of time analyzing the demographics of the individuals who voted for Trump and who voted for Biden.
I decided to take a look at the qualities of the states that were the biggest Trump strongholds (Big Trump States) and states that were the home to the biggest percentages of Biden supporters (Big Biden States) to see if there were characteristics shared by the states in each camp.
The Big Trump & The Big Biden States
I’ve listed the top sixteen states that went for each…
The marketplace of ideas has been replaced by the marketplace of lies, anger, and hate because that’s the speech that makes Facebook rich
By David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website)
My last column was about stupid people:
After reading it, a world-famous-scientist friend of mine told me:
“Dave, the big problem is that stupid people don’t know it [that they’re stupid] because of their condition. In the past morons and idiots were not a real problem. …
Those who choose to believe the lies that COVID is a fake disease have chosen to be stupid people
By David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website)
Way back in September 2013 I published a column titled: “What Is A Smart Person? Why Do Smart People Sometimes Say & Do Stupid Things?”
Lately, I’ve been thinking about writing a related column, What Is A Stupid Person?
People who have the intelligence to see the truth but who choose to believe the lie are stupid people
An intelligent person believing something based on evidence or logic is making an intellectual choice to be smart.
An intelligent person choosing to believe a lie contradicted by evidence or logic is making an emotional choice to be stupid.
Someone whose intellectual ability to see the truth is overruled by their emotional…
A “Labor Shortage” is NOT when there are fewer people willing to work for crap wages than there are open jobs paying a crap wage
By David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website)
The Mind-Boggling Strategy Of Getting More Workers By Paying A Higher Wage!
A few years ago a large farming operation in Northern California complained that they “couldn’t hire any workers!” Finally, desperate to try anything, no matter how crazy, to get more workers they raised their pay from $11/hour to $13/hour.
Suddenly, they found that they could hire all the workers they needed. What a shocking, crazy strategy! Who would have ever thought that offering higher pay would attract more job applicants?
For two dollars per hour more, their “labor shortage”…
The Content Providers’ Crucial Mistake Is That They’ve Picked The WRONG Time Frame. They’re Selling Content PER MONTH Instead Of PER SECOND
By David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website)
A Good Business Model Works WITH, Not AGAINST Human Nature
Three Rules Of Human Nature:
1) Buying More Than You Think You Can Use Is Contrary To Human Nature
First, people hate buying more of something than they think they can use, so they will resist doing that.
Even if the cost per fluid ounce for your shampoo is low, few people will be willing to buy shampoo in a five gallon container. A business model based on selling shampoo in five gallon containers is contrary to human nature and will have a very limited demographic.
2) Buying Something When You…
If you choose to not to be vaccinated for COVID, shouldn’t your insurance carrier be allowed to exclude COVID from your insurance coverage?
By David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website)
The So-Called Freedom To Refuse To Wear A Mask
For the last several months we’ve heard all the usual libertarian/anarchist baloney about people needing to be free to refuse to wear a mask — Personal freedom, left-wing plot, fake disease, being in control of our own bodies, making decisions for ourselves, rugged individualism, blah, blah, blah.
With Freedom Comes Responsibility
Like most libertarian demands for freedom, their arguments are based on the notion, fantasy, lie, that people have a right to do things that risk damage to others (not wear a…
Running a country under rules based on philosophical ideas of right and wrong or fair and unfair never ends well
By David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website)
Imposing Laws Based On Ideology Instead Of Practicality
It’s not unusual for some ideological group to get control of a country and impose laws based on what these theorists think God wants, what is sinful and what is holy, or what is morally fair or unfair.
These rules might be the principles of Sharia Law, the values of the Temperance League, communism, libertarianism, fundamentalist Christianity, whatever, but they all have one thing in common:
- The idea that the imposition of their pet political, religious, or moral principles that run counter to…
DavidGrace
Graduate of Stanford University & U.C. Berkeley Law School. Author of 17 novels and over 375 Medium columns on Economics, Politics, Law, Humor & Satire.
