Work Smarter, Not Harder

Love is probably what propels people into ideas of gaining personal success. The idea is to have a nice job where you don’t kill or poison yourself, have great  perks and insurance to cover medical expenses and personal maintenance. To be able to make enough money to be ‘content’ enough so that greed and penny pinching doesn’t motivate personal or professional stress.

How does love motivate such ambitious thoughts? Well, who doesn’t want to feel well taken care of?

But is it a little… presumptuous or self righteous to asks these things of industry and government? No, because most people in a community or society are motivated to take care of others and through them feel taken care of. The greater industrial revolutions have happened in mass production and labour to better motivate cost effective changes, but for the most part on industry. Industry for the most part has figure heads and controlling interests who pay themselves huge percentages of a companies earnings. Why not? Shouldn’t a franchise owner by rights, be able to pay himself well? Why should it be any different for large industrial corporations or leaders? Well the answer is simple…

Let’s say there is a family that owns a few fast food chains. The Berlitz Family has 6 A&W restaurants. The franchise name takes 15% of total earnings every month. 35% goes back into the stores for stock and supplies. That’s 50%, put labour costs on top of that and you have perhaps 60% of total earnings gone. Let’s say these 6 stores do fairly well and make about $15, 000 a week with stock and supplie orders being about $3, 000 per store. That’s $12, 000 in stock and supply a week out of about a hundred thousand dollars. That isn’t bad for over head for that kind of profit generation. But let’s say because they get good traffic labour is up and costs are up. So let’s say about $15,000 for supplies and about the same in labour. That means it takes two stores entire earnings to keep up the other 4, which is actually a fairly realistic outlook on the way some franchises operate, it’s part of the success and rampant growth of a lot of chains and why some owners are repeat owners. On top of these costs you have insurance, legal fees, licensing fees, a whole slew of fees and bills for each location. Phone and internet, security, rent the list of expenses goes on and on. In the end a guy who you would assume is a millionaire because he has multiple little chain stores, is really getting by maybe just a little better than other folks.  Depending on the franchise he might not even be able to pay himself as much as he would like or as much as is possible.

On the industrial side of things a company let’s call ‘Spartan Steel’ acquires and melts down scrap iron. They make only one product I beams for homes. Spartan Steel has 2 factories across North America. The company hires people with less than a high-school education and reformed criminals, reformed criminals get them a small tax credit. As a whole Spartan Steel has their workers earning a nice wage considering their history and education. But their insurance is terrible, which is barely debated or even regarded either because of the overall education and lifestyle of their workers. It isn’t nothing but they have some insurance.

Spartan employs about 60 people per factory on various levels of pay and insurance. The customer service, database, and ordering staff make a nice wage and have nice insurance and may or may not have university or college degrees.  The administrative staff makes the biggest overall wage has complete comprehensive insurance, and all of which have a degree or a proven background. Each factory brings in almost 20 million a year, with about 6-7 million going back into expenses which leaves a float of at least 10 million between them, regardless of critical meltdowns or setbacks. Of this ten million the founder and his partners take 3 million each on top of regular wages and benefits they pay themselves. ‘Spartan Steel’ has been snow balling profits since it started and has been operational for almost 35 years.

Now is it silly or morally ambiguous to assume or suppose the industrial owners should have some kind of maximum that they can pay themselves, just like how the Berlitz family has? They can only take out so much before they are in debt to themselves, which is a reality of some small businesses.

Everyone is out to make a dollar in  business, that’s the point unless it’s a philanthropic endeavour. Really though, people don’t need 30 million dollar estates and bank accounts with snow balling interest. How much is enough to be comfortable and when does just wanting to be comfortable turn into wanting to devour the world? How much success is too much success?

Perhaps a lot of economic problems are because of so much money going into non-circulating accounts. Money that goes in and never comes out, ever.

After the last industrial revolution industry the world saw a financial revolution. It became possible to snowball finances exponentially in some cases, with little to no work involved.

Do people act greedy out of love? I don’t think so. But the motivations start, I’m sure, with wanting to take of yourself, love for yourself is still love isn’t it? But …

No you know what… any personal overhead over 15 million should be pushed back into the system. People don’t need fucking 50, 000 square feet yards and 2 mile drive ways and private islands. It’s bullshit, really like what the fuck.

AND STOP TRYING TO GO TO SPACE
FUCKING VISIT THE OCEAN FIRST
LIKE SHIT, WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE LOL

I Want To Need

I’m going to speak personally here.

I have meet too many people who put themselves in less than desirable positions when it comes to personal finance. I have met too many individuals who protest that on their pay-day, they ‘owe it to themselves’   to ‘treat’ themselves. This kind of mentality is complete and utter bullshit.

Why do people have jobs?
Because we have to?
If people absolutely had to, there would be no homeless. There would be incredible monoliths in place for public housing. Every single person in the world who is able would be employed if people ‘had’ to have a job.

It isn’t mandatory that people work. Find a homeless person you’ll see that. Many people are homeless or impoverished because of either unfortunate circumstance or selfishness. Any excuse I would be given for some other reason, I assure you, would be boiled down to one of the two.

If you have a well paying job and you work hard, good. This means that you ‘ow it to yourself’ to have some self respect. Get good rest, eat right, and continue being productive. Now, unfortunately a lot of people don’t get as much rest as they probably should, or eat as well as they would like to, or at least eat as well as society would have them believe they should. And not a lot of people seem to really enjoy their jobs because work is a bit of a drag. But, just because you don’t have 100% satisfaction with your job doesn’t mean that you can label your ‘treats’ as necessaries because you feel that without your little pick-me-ups you’d commit suicide. These are the ideals of a weak willed individual and the motives for a lot of trouble.

People who go out of their way to over spend on trinkets, junk, and waste that will give them a half second of pleasure are giving themselves hours perhaps even days of trouble. And is it worth it? How much is feeling good for a fleeting second worth? Yes life is short, yes work sucks, but if you have self respect, you” work hard you can give yourself the ‘treat’ of treating your body right. Just because you feel you work hard doesn’t mean you need to play hard. Life would probably be a lot brighter and less bleak if you took care of yourself. You’d live longer and be happier just because you’d be rested and well nourished, which would probably decrease stress.

Weak, foolish, and impoverished individuals are usually lazy, poor workers who are probably unreliable, short to temper, and easily distracted. A foolish person doesn’t know how to spend their money, a weak person doesn’t believe they should invest in rest and nourishment because of either depression or anxiety, and an impoverished person will gladly go through life without cleaning up after themselves or appreciating others outside of what they can provide.

Drowning in a cycle of ‘self medication’ isn’t a solution. Its a distraction and a distraction that can cost you your living arrangements.  If you don’t put your business before your pleasure, you are going to find yourself with a lot less pleasure. Allowing the stress of this to build up will only increase your bills and probably callous spending on self medication. Please, if you or someone you know is sacrificing their standard of living for their lifestyle, do not support their lifestyle. Shun it if you have to. If you care about them, shun it. Seeing a person put their lifestyle before their livelihood or their standard of living… it makes me want to find a megaphone and shout;

“If you are not thinking about what you are doing, then you are thoughtless.”

I’m guessing its the ‘pleasure before business mentality’ that is seeing a lot more young people staying at home longer, or moving back home more often. There is some kind of warped generation gap happening for the ‘technological natives’ (people born from 1985-1993), its as though you can only find work if you submit a resume online, which ties into only being able to succeed in school with a personal computer. So now not only does a person require food, water, electricity, and a place to sleep but you need an internet connection now as well. And its strange and different. Computers are machines of instant gratification which could possibly be influencing and facilitating some odd social paradigm shifts. Parents of the ‘T.N.’ generation mentioned; can’t believe a lot the lazy disgusting shit their kids have produced, or people they have become. Unemployed, self obsessed, narcissistic, prone to depression, parasites of human beings. Its disgusting.

I hope to god if you are reading this that you put business before pleasure. I hope you think about what you are doing with every dollar you spend and minute you spend earning that dollar. Life is short but if you don’t live wisely, it is going to be a lot shorter and more like hell everyday. Notice the things you like and dislike, and seek it out. Go for it. Get it. I just hope that if you know what you want, you go get it, and know what to do with it. Each person has a life and its theirs, once an individual realizes what that means I hope they think about what they do with it.

Eat, drink, and be merry. But don’t let the merriment put you out of house and home. And don’t let merriment take over your entire life.

You want to celebrate everyday?
Wake up and take care of yourself, you’ll have more days to celebrate.

Play Things

Video Games are akin to books and movies, and yet toys.

Art can be a highly questionable concept that might be associated onto conceivably anything with any context for whatever principles or philosophies. If there is a subject on earth that could be associated with the pinnacle of broad extremism, it might be the proclamation and subsequent questioning of an art subject.
An exceptional example of this would be ‘Piss Christ’ a picture taken in 1987 by Andres Serrano that is of a small crucifix photographed in a jar of the photographer’s urine. In addition, twenty years later his exhibit ‘Shit’ that was a collection of feces from various subjects photographed on a pedestal.
Therefore, people have said Andres Serrano’s pictures are art and people have questioned ‘is it art?’ which is a prime question that seems to perpetuate art debates. A question that is more of a doubtful remark than anything else and probably the number one source of art debates.

Is the subject highly questionable?
Is the subject difficult to understand?
Does the subject stimulate thoughts or emotions?
Does the subject have some sort of cultural or natural semblances?
Whether the answer is yes or no to the questions it is art. It is always art. Someone can say ‘No, it’s shit.’ and yet it seems in the case of Andres Serrano and his 08′ collection, yes, indeed, it certainly is shit.

T.P.S. Report

Creating a business takes tact, reasoning, planning, research, finances and thus investments. It takes a certain kind of person, a person who perhaps feels that they must achieve something, to create a place of commerce and mercantile practice, contribute and add to society. In addition, it can be said that while that sort of person may exist another sort, a very indifferent sort of person who perhaps does not really care about contributing to society exists. This sort of person perhaps only wants to gain some sort of remedial satisfaction from a remedial sense of success.
Therefore, they open a business or line of investments.
Now, interestingly enough, both of these characters become millionaires, yet do not separate from the cast of society that they had sprouted. What can this phenomenon be called? Boot legers syndrome? A form of business conditioning where standards, practices, products, and services are duplicates of existing, commercially successful ones? A syndrome that dictates where, why, and how things will happen, devoid of any sort of any creative engineering on the part of the stakeholders? It’s a lazy sort of business, it’s a decent, correct sort of business, it’s a sound model. Sordidly perhaps.
It can be speculated that out of the ashes of this sort of congenial practise new forms of product and business engineering techniques have sprung, especially, and exceptionally on television. Where new ideas can be thrown into the laps of millions of viewers in a split second. A television consumer network for test procedure specification and focus groups.

Isn’t it wonderful what someone can do with just a little bit of advertising space! Radio, television, magazines and other publications, the Internet, and etcetera and etcetera are in the most part successful because of the commercial applications of advertising. 

Isn’t it wonderful what someone can do with just a little advertising?!
What about if television shows were ad-space wrapped around a full hour of ad-space?
I can recall a game show that has a primary mechanic based on this principle. Moreover, it is a classic.
A reflection on consumerism, followed by a reflection of the current economic state, followed by a reflection on the urban cyclical idealism, the circle jerk.