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The Left Side Of The Curve

Bamby

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A Stolen Commuter Plane And The Left Side Of The Curve

I've said this many times and will continue repeating it as many times as I have to until it sinks in:

No nation will survive if its economy does not have available a meaningful, life-sustaining set of options for those who are on the left side of the bell curve.

Fully half of all persons in a given nation are always on the left side of said bell curve. The location of the center moves somewhat depending on the composition of a given population but half of the people are always on the left side.

The vast majority of those people must be able to find stable, life and family-sustaining employment that does not inherently require their own personal destruction within the economy. This means they must be able to take care of not only themselves but a spouse and children as well on the income they can generate through productive, legitimate employment.

A "rampie" (ramp worker) at a regional airline makes about $15/hour. This, against a standard 2,000 hour work year (50 weeks of 40 hours/week) is $30,000/year before taxes. In high-tax / high cost-of-living locales, such as Seattle, it is flatly impossible for a family to live on this level of income.

As of July the average 2-bedroom apartment rent (a couple plus one or two kids sharing a room) in the Seattle area is just over $2,000/month. That's $24,000 a year of after tax income just to afford a place to live -- flatly impossible on $30,000 a year in income as after taxes (remember, Social Security and Medicare take almost 8% off the top), even assuming a zero income tax, you won't have enough left to pay the power bill, say much less anything else.

Note that being a "rampie" is a job that someone near the middle of the bell curve or slightly to the left can do productively; it certainly is not something that a person materially to the left of the median can engage in and be successful at. It also isn't a "starter" job such as working in a fast-food restaurant.

In other words it is exactly the sort of job that has to be available for those on the left side of the curve, yet it fails to produce enough income for a modest family to survive.

The issue is not the wages paid. It's the cost of living that has been imputed into everyone in the country via the back door whether that be through property taxes (raises rents) or otherwise.

It is not possible to "gift" enough through welfare and other "social supports" to fix this; those nations that have attempted it have all had their economies collapse. Venezuela is just the latest but hardly the only example and Venezuela is chock-full of oil! If anyone could have pulled it off it would have been them.

There are simply too many people on the left side (always half of the population!) to be able to "support" them through handouts and welfare in this fashion. As a result the only answer that leads to a stable society and economy is for there to be opportunities sufficient to sustain a family available for the vast majority of those individuals -- certainly for all who are to the right of the 1SD cut-off on the left side of the curve.

Health care monopolies are largely responsible for this state of affairs today; indeed they are the single biggest cause of it.

They raise pension and city operating costs, thereby forcing property taxes (and thus rents) higher.

Worse, they are a direct tax on all persons and employees; not only do they hit you out-of-pocket they directly-suppress wages since those "benefits" are directly applicable to employee cost and as a result increases there are directly subtracted from raises you would otherwise receive in cash compensation.

And finally, they directly impact the price of all essential goods and services you must buy to remain alive since they are imposed on everyone and thus reflect back into the price of everything, from food to electricity to water and garbage collection.

This not only has to be stopped it must be reversed and those "businesses" that have caused it destroyed. There are plenty of legal tools available here and now to do so and yet through both Democrat and Republican congresses and Presidencies neither party will directly take it on. They're not only compromised they're both being directly bribed and likely blackmailed as well into not doing so, and that extends all the way down to the State Attorneys General and local prosecutors, any of which could also bring anti-trust actions against same since there are State laws against this conduct those individuals also refuse to enforce.

Now add to it that Seattle is the base of the left-leaning firms that have participated with glee in destroying middle-class jobs by offshoring higher level labor and bringing in H1b holders to suppress wages of people nominally on the right side of the curve -- those in the "middle-right" portion! Rather than pay someone $80,000 or $100,000 a year to program they'll bring in folks from India who will work for $50,000 and put up with slave-like conditions because their ability to stay in the US is tied to their employer; they have zero mobility and negotiating leverage.

Between these firms and the manufacturing companies like GM, Ford and others who send their labor to Mexico (for $4/hour instead of $35) what's the guy in the middle to left side of the bell curve to do? He'll never be a genius yet any successful economy and nation that does not wish to wind up with a civil war or violent revolt must have a means for him to be successful and be able to raise a family.

Today the simple fact of the matter is that he does not; those opportunities have been systematically and intentionally destroyed.

Is it any surprise that someone who is backed into a corner -- despite working hard and staying clean (drug tests, etc) yet is unable to provide for himself and his family would eventually snap and do something nasty? Exactly how much stress placed upon someone like this man by a gang of rapacious bastards, violating 100+ year old law with impunity and by doing so screwing half the nation blind so they can make another billion dollars is expected to be tolerated without any sort of pushback?

How far does it go before said person loses their mind?

The surprise isn't that this guy had a few screws loose.

It's that millions of others haven't done similar things.

Yet.


The above article also pretty well expresses my sediments of whats actually wrong with this country..



 
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