A Little Nihilism to Kick Off You Weekend

As most of you are aware I have little to no sympathy for dregs of humanity or any part of humanity for that matter. I find that most people are inherently selfish and foolish. People make bad decisions all the time. The problem is that those who come from a more economically challenged background are excused for their mistakes.

Before I get too far into this I must point out that odds are if you are reading this you are of a privileged background. You obviously have internet access, a device on which to read this webpage and the free time to read it. You most likely have at least a Bachelors Degree from a college or university (yes even Michigan State counts) this puts you in the top 30 percent of the United States so stop right now with the whole we are the 99% bullshit. You are privileged and those on the ranks below you see you the same as they see your hated 1%.

I came across this Associated Press article about "The New American Poor" which got me wondering why we should give a fuck about these people who have made noting but bad decisions and keep passing on those bad decisions. I encourage you to read the article however if you do not wish to read it I will be breaking down what these people say and why we should just let them suffer for their decisions.

The story begins with 52 year old Irene Slayers. Irene has been married and divorced three times by 52. She runs a fruit stand with her boyfriend and they mostly live off of government disability checks. Irene is quoted as saying : "If you do try to go apply for a job, they're not hiring people, and they're not paying that much to even go to work," she said. Children, she said, have "nothing better to do than to get on drugs."

She acts as if it is the fault of the businesses in her community that there aren't jobs for the offspring from her three failed marriages and her grandchildren. Yes she has grandchildren. Irene has a daughter named Renee Adams who is 28 who herself has two kids. Renee is a jobless single mother who has a live in boyfriend. How does Renee pay her bills? She survives off of her boyfriends government disability checks. Renee goes on to say that she wishes that employers would look past her conviction for selling prescription painkillers so she can "buy her kids everything they need"

My issue is why did Renee have children and why should society give a fuck about those children. I have no issue with adults living off of disability checks. In fact I wholeheartedly believe that the best thing we can do is subsidize employment at 30 hours a week to ensure every adult American has 20,000 dollars a year (I will lay out this entire plan in a later post) but it has to stop there. If you choose to bring children into the world than you have to care for them. If you do not have the means to do this do not have children. Reproductive choice has been the law of the land for the past 40 years so yes Renee you did have a choice. 

Look up where this lives and do a cost of living analysis of where you live to where they live. To live like I do in Manhattan a person would only need make 12,000 a year. That is basically working a minimum wage job 30 hours a week. So when Renee says that after they pay their bills they only have 10 dollars left to their name I have to wonder what fucking bills they have to pay. There is no reason if this family were responsible that they couldn't survive comfortably on one disability check on a one part time job. 

As I have stated before the cause of poverty is population size. The only reasonable thing that can be done is to encourage those who cannot afford to have offspring to not have them. Especially since those who can best support offspring and who's offspring would be those ones that would fix issues of overpopulation in the future are choosing not to have offspring. 

The only reason an individual can disagree with my points is if they have some dogmatic attachment to the sanctity of human life. If you have that dogmatic attachment than you had best go protest outside of an abortion clinic because if you do not then you are as much of a hypocrite as someone who finds abortion to be wrong except in the case of rape of incest. Either all human life has intrinsic value or no human life has intrinsic value. 

(As to ensure that readers don't consider me to be a bigger monster than I really am Intrinsic is defined as: the ethical or philosophic value that an object has "in itself" or "for its own sake" )

The Leisure Economy or Let the strike for 15 usher in Idiocracy the choice is yours

This past week Mary Kay Henry the International President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) went on the Colbert Report to discuss the "Strike for 15". It occurred to me while watching her interview that the main issue in this strike is the hatred of large corporations such as McDonald's and Yum Brands not the concern for the workers themselves.

Much like with the anger aimed at GMO's which I sincerely believe to be more about Monsanto making large profits off of the GMO's not the perceived dangers of the GMO's themselves this is about hatred of profitable companies. If GMO's were open source and Monsanto weren't making so much money I don't think people would care about them just like if the only restaurants were family owned dinners you wouldn't hear the outrage at the wages fry cooks receive. 

This is the real issue here, if the minimum wage were to be increased to 15 dollars an hour you would see economic collapse. Family owned dinners and cafe's couldn't afford to pay 30,000 dollars a year to their full time employees and stay in business. Increasing the minimum wage to 15 dollars an hour would lead to record inflation and job loss. The cost of the increase in wages would be passed on to the consumers much like what has happened in Australia where the minimum wage is over 20 dollars an hour.

Consumer prices are 50 percent higher in Australia than they are in the United States. This is the outcome of an increased minimum wage. The reason wages are low is about supply and demand. We have larger supply of workers than jobs. This, not greed, is why wages are low. If you force employers who are already employing more workers than they need to function efficiently  than you will simply hasten the downsizing of the workforce and the rate at which human workers are replaced by machinery.

It comes back to population size. At one point in time we needed a large workforce to plow land. At another point we needed a large workforce to build goods then we needed a work force to sell those goods. Now the land is plowed by a one worker in a large piece of Caterpillar machinery 

and the manufacturing is done by these awesome dudes

As for the selling of products that is now done in this manner. Every time you order a product online you are eliminating retail jobs in the same manner in which the occupation of travel agent is now only seen in movies from the 80s and in the museum of Natural History thanks in part to the Roaming Gnome and Travelocity. This lowers the price to the consumer and gives the consumer more freedom. These innovations improve the quality of life and have created a leisure economy.  

As more and more people choose to be childless

the population will eventually decrease and the workforce will level out and wages will go up.

No longer is wealth created through arduous labor. It is now created through providing travel and entertainment. This is a golden time to be alive because the costs of leisure have gone down. What creates the most wealth in the United States today you might ask? The NFL not only do the players receive lots of money but they spend it on luxury items such as Ruby's, Lexus', Porsches and Mercedes. They also spend money things other than strippers. The sole reason why cable companies and the Networks haven't had to cut their workforces drastically is the amount of money generated by NFL television contracts. These jobs will vanish once the NFL goes to a subscription based streaming service that doesn't require Direct TV. Bars make up for the down summer months the minute the NFL kicks off. Included in this the merchandise and vendors in the stadiums. This is the new economy, It is based on leisure activities and as the population decreases everyone will have a better life.

Of course it really does matter who is having children and who is not. For if the only people have children are those that have four of them when their only source of supporting their family is a retail job than the future of this planet is extremely bleak