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. . . OK, Ross can't handle full legal defense yet, but it can perform all the legal research necessary to handle a case. Read more below the break. Glenn Reynolds: America's unregulated shampooer menace
Glenn!!! I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that you would fall in for the communist menace of unlicensed shampooers! More after the break! The minimum wage backlash will come from the lower middle class, and the working class . . .5/7/2016 Seniority and Skills Not Worth Anything; Unhappiness Spreads With Minimum Wage Hikes | MishTalk
. . . but Mish is correct the beatings will continue until morale improves. Read more after the break! Bureaucracies which live for themselves
. . . a weakness which only manifests itself immediately before the fall. More below the fold. Little Scamp Causes Full Minute of Dead Air on NPR on Take Your Child to Work Day
Ummm, that is take your child to work day! Here at the main control board of USS Maddogslair, we don't hold much to etiquette, or anything else truthfully. So, while take your child to work day was yesterday, we slept through it. Instead we will be taking our child(s) to work today! Mostly because they are off school for one of the myriad teacher don't have to work days. I'm hoping they are up for a pint of bourbon each, that is my minimum RDA while helming the USS Maddogslair, no shirking just because they are only 16 and 17! Oh, and ground jerky sticks, I usually knock down a good half dozen, but hey, I won't expect a novice stomach to handle that much meat flavored pressed wood pulp, or whatever these things are made of. With the Maddogsson in Marine Corps Boot Camp, I am especially glad they do not have a take your father to work day. My bourbon/jerky soaked body ricocheting off that much exercise might trigger a thermobaric explosion sufficient to take down the entire MCRD base! Anyway, here's hoping my little scamps can cause as much chaos and confusion as the NPR scamps! If take your child to work day isn't designed to allow your kids create all the chaos you aren't allowed to cause, what is it for? If you don't understand the lede, ask an Irishman or Scotsman to read it to you. . . . it might be the place where 20 somethings go to retire, but increasingly they must do that living in the parents basement!
I spoke briefly with Abigail, a young woman who works at the local Starbucks as an assistant manager. She is a smart cookie, doing all the right things, but trapped in the hell that is the blue model. Wages in Portlandia are low, rents high, and the cost of living is fairly high when compared to the wage. You may remember a few days ago when I discussed the fact that Portlandia is the worst city in the country for Millennial housing affordability. Boomer versus Millennial Wrestling World Smackdown, Portland is out ahead, but Seattle is running a close second! Abigail is the poster child for this problem. She is educated, employed, and still not able to find work at a wage which allows her to live on her own. This even though she is an assistant manager. This is not a slight on the employer, but an indictment of the current blue model, and our unwillingness to make necessary change. Our conversation started with a comment on the high cost of rents in Portlandia. It roved from rent to wages, to college, and on to how difficult it is to make it on ones own today, especially for the young. We hit other areas like equal pay, saving, and opportunity. Walter Russell Mead has an article addressing this problem. Small Business Should Be Priority Number One I agree with the thrust of this post. The blue model was in part the attempt to counter balance big business with big government, big labor, big banking, big law, etc. The idea was to create huge institutions to help create space for the little guy to keep from being crushed by the bigs. The Internet, and the tech revolution has essentially altered the landscape, allowing the individual access to information which used to be the sole providence of the bigs. This was because information prior to the Internet was expensive to obtain, and expensive to store, collate, analyze, and make usable. This is no longer true. In the Internet age information wants to be free, and it is very difficult, probably impossible to keep information sequestered. The result is that in many situations the individual has the same access to information as the big, but is without the internal bureaucracy the big is saddled with. And so the individual is able to act on information more quickly, and frequently more profitably. Where it used to be difficult for a small business to compete directly against a huge corporation, today it is not. The small can fine tune and focus on the specific needs of a client or a small group of clients. These often forgotten clients are much happier with the individualized attention, and the extensive knowledge the small business usually has. This is one of the reasons for the massive, and ongoing crack up of the large mega law firms. The Boomers are doing a great disservice to our young people by continuing to focus them on attempting to find a niche in the old blue model world. Big business as mega employer is likely a thing of the past. The Mead idea here for a transition to the new socio-economic model is a very good start. The sooner the young people begin to think independently of the antiquated blue model, the sooner they will be able to find a niche and begin prospering from the collapse of the blue model. Perhaps we will need to reform welfare to create a better more usable safety net to allow these young people to take more risks in the entrepreneurial world? Please reread one of my earlier blog posts linked below. It offers a much more comprehensive analysis of some of these issues, and opportunities. The Stockman, The Donald, The Noonan all in one place! The guaranteed income could be an option which allows these young people to take necessary risks. Best of luck to Abigail. I have been toying with meeting with she and her boyfriend for a an hour or so sit-down session where I pick their brains to help me understand the Millennial better. I would be willing to part with $50 apiece. I will ask her next time I see her. Berkley, that hot bed of social justice, finally allowed to pay a livable $15 per hour wage . . .4/20/2016 UC Berkeley greets $15 minimum wage with job cuts - Hot Air . . .instead cut it payroll budget by $50 million dollars, 500 employees, or 6% of its total personnel. Boy that living wage works quick. Read more below the video! |
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