Steve Litt, during the periods of decline that you rightly decry, we've
GOTTEN the bureaucratic micromanagement you desire: the ever higher forced
payroll costs and the tweaks of nearly every imaginable kind. Yet you
refuse to admit the possibility that powermad micromanagement caused the
mess.
Exemplifying the further decline you rightly fear is every bureaucratic
micromanagement cabal ever to exist: dictatorial governments from ancient
monarchies to China, N Korea, Cuba, Iran et al today. Yet you refuse to
admit the possibility that powermad micromanagement caused the mess.
Do you like being micromanaged at work? Or do you think it causes more
problems than solutions? Bear in mind that your boss or client KNOWS MORE
about your job than an elected or appointed professional panderer ever will.
In an example we've discussed before, your boss and client KNOW that
increased payroll must be offset if a business is to avoid decline and stay
solvent. Bureaucrats don't know or don't care, and you join them by
refusing to even admit the possibility.
Life IS meritocratic, from the early bird (or species) who gets the worm,
to the I/T contractor whose data design allows faster and more robust
querying. Survival of the fit. Artificial intrusion on natural life
processes CAUSES PROBLEMS for all - if you are an environmentalist, you
already believe this. From fittest to the unfit, nobody profits from
outside meddling, and there's been more of that during your cited decline
than at any time in American history.
Go ahead and try to deny it.
And btw: anecdotes like those given show the truth of the principles
illustrated. Understanding their universality should be easy, if you paid
attention.
- Vara
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On Dec 10, 2016 8:56 PM, "Steve Litt" <
slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 09:51:44 -0700
> Keith Smith <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
>
> > I had dinner with a couple guys from a programming agency last
> > night. The senior owner is about 55 and the junior owner is about
> > 35. I'm guessing they make exceptionally good money. What was the
> > mix that made them successful? Skills, personality, an hard work.
> > They both attended college, developed some in demand skills, with a
> > little luck and hard work they are doing very well.
>
> These two guys are one anecdote.
>
> Your life story is another anecdote. A few anecdotes don't prove
> anything. There are always people who can overcome obstacles. But
> today's obstacles are much more difficult for the average person to
> overcome.
>
> Except for the 82/83 recession, the 70's and 80's you remember as
> difficult were paradise compared to the world faced by the last decade
> of high school grads.
>
> My assertions can be born out by statistics on cost of living,
> unemployment, and real wages, broken out by age group. It's not hard to
> find.
>
> The shame is, a higher minimum wage and a few other minor tweaks could
> have fixed these problems enough to stay on a stable course.
>
> This is tired and offtopic. There's no convincing you that life isn't
> an endless meritocracy: I won't try further. Just don't come crying
> to me if the nation you love and fought for disintegrates. It would
> have been pretty easy to prevent with a stitch in time.
>
> SteveT
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