[ExI] Unemployment

[William Flynn Wallace]

never mind the damn TP.  Our grandparents did without it.  spike



There is a book I read long ago, Life On Man, which I call bacteriology and
the history of shit.  In it I learned what 'getting the short end of the
stick means'. The Royal person stopped at a bush, did his number, used a
stick (no, not just any stick, a royal stick), then handed it to his lackey.


bill w

On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 8:56 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *John Clark via extropy-chat
> *Sent:* Sunday, April 5, 2020 6:21 AM
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> *Cc:* John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Unemployment
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> On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 8:51 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> *>**>…*Remember, those tens of millions of people may not have a job or
> savings or insurance or hope but they do have guns….
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> *> **That should put the second amendment debates to bed for good.*
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> >…At this point my primary concern is not how to preserve the second
> amendment or even the constitution, it's how to preserve civilization… John
> K Clark
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> The second amendment preserves itself (and the other rights.)
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> Note that war has been fought on American soil twice, and the good guys
> won both times.  The difference between then and now is that the good guys
> have waaaay more advantages than they did either of the other two times.
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> I have seen what looks like an important lesson for civilization: do not
> depend on help from a distant bureaucracy which has already been at war
> with itself for well over three years and isn’t anywhere near a truce.
> Focus on the nearby resources, community efforts, food banks, city and
> county level organizations which are not battling themselves for power but
> are using their power and influence effectively.
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> If the distant bureaucracy wants to help, the clumsy distribution of money
> isn’t the right thing.  They should give to suppliers to enable them to
> give out food directly from the trucks.  That would keep the unprepared out
> of immediate danger.  1200 bucks will go a looooong ways if it goes for
> canned goods and durable storable dense-calorie food items, and never mind
> the damn TP.  Our grandparents did without it.
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> Fun parting note: voluntary unemployment is sudden zero point zero.
> Anyone who wants a job or even wants to volunteer, can go down to the local
> grocer, pack boxes for home delivery.  Anyone with a car can take boxes
> around to neighborhoods.  The local grocers have unmet demand for home
> delivery but not enough people, not neeeearly enough people to box and haul
> it.  You will not get rich off of this (even I haven’t figured out a way to
> cash in bigtime, not yet I haven’t) but the suddenly unemployed have an
> option if they really need it or feel charitable.
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