Manufactured culture wars are killing our energy

A short essay by Terry Etam.

Suppose a person starts a new business. Months of tireless effort ensue. It all works out. The business grows like crazy and within five years it employs a thousand people. The owner becomes wealthy.

Philosophical junction point: Did that person create a gift for society in the form of creating a thousand jobs, plus the ancillary spin off jobs created by their spending?

Or did the business owner become rich on the backs of employees, capturing the benefits of their labour for their own outsized benefit, while the employees did not become rich?

You will predominantly be drawn to one option or the other.

17 Replies to “Manufactured culture wars are killing our energy”

  1. I get paid over $85 per hour working from home with 2 kids at home. I never thought I’d be able to do it but my best friend earns over 10k a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The potential with this is endless.
    Here’s what I’ve been doing https://earnincome00.blogspot.com/

  2. Nice Essay – if your trying to find the middle ground between the arsonist and the fireman. Terry not quite sure which is which.

    Heres a gem from near the end ” we all want to reduce emissions”.

    He should have put that in first paragraph so I would not have wasted my time on the rest.

    Terry – CO2 is not going to burn the planet up – nor is it a thermostat for the temperature. it is LIFE.

    The fact you do not know that “AGW/Climate change” is foundational to the demonization, rationing and outright criminalization of that miraculous source of prosperity called hydrocarbons, and the tip of the spear of the destruction of the West, says much about how informed the rest of your points of view are.

    So no – we all don’t agree that we need to reduce emissions. We need more CO2 since it is life giving and creates abundance and prosperity.

    Idiot.

    1. Exactly. The Climate Alarmist Scam diverts (human) energy from real problems, and impoverishes everyone.

  3. The former. The creator did all the leg work and assumed all the risk. It is much easier to go and work for someone than it is to work for yourself. It is much harder to get a mortgage or other loan as self employed small business owner, never mind unemployment insurance etc.
    The business owner/creator sets the stage for what comes after, As long as taxation exists, the government is benefitting just as much from the business owner as the employee is.

  4. I agree with Zon’s take on the issue…however, there’ll always be the sleazy bastard who has no interest in his employees well being and will grind them into the ground to make an extra penny. Same mindset as the slum landlord. So maybe a bit of a grey area.
    The flip side is/are the employee(s) who have no hesitation in screwing the ‘boss’ over for there own benefit.
    Fake injuries, stealing tools, padding their expenses etc.

    1. Dan, I’ve worked for those, they take as much as they can from the company and then go bankrupt, leaving you in the lurch for banked time and other owings..
      Also have seen the succubus employee, doing all you have mentioned. It’s a double edged sword, that cuts both ways!
      I’d rather just be able to do my job without having to waste time worrying about management/owner and other employees working against you..

  5. I always prefer my wars totally manufactured by the WEF and the DC Neocons. You know, to “save democracy from Trump Putin.”

    Slava Koruptsia!

  6. I can’t really agree with Terry.
    Because there is no middle ground with a neo-Marxist.
    Because most employees can’t understand the risk/investment and far too many think they’re underpaid while some employers think every employee is overpaid and can’t properly acknowledge all the hazards, their risks and the toll that some jobs take.
    As for pollution, yeah none is good, but I’ll take the fantastic luxuries of our modern society brought to us by petrochemicals over the dark and cold ages that Gang Green desires. Besides, their whole premise is bullshit.

    1. Well said Buddy.

      Pollution is one thing…CO2 however is 180 degrees opposite. Gangrene can kiss my diesel loving ass

      As for business owners..pah, I’m one…and the only one in my Ltd. Company….I contract my services out and am paid as long as I provide said services…and I can tell ya, it blows away working for a set salary and some University pinhead.

      Just gotta keep going for Direct contracts and dumping those who would leach off of your efforts..(re-sellers).

  7. Terry is trying to point out that different people think differently and thus come to different opinions about what is “right”. And because ths is true, in order for society to function with all of us in it we need to be able to compromise so that we get some of what we consider “right” but not everything. What he doesn’t get around to discussing is that societies start to break down when a group begins to believe that there hasn’t been a compromise and that they are not getting anything that they believe is right.

    When that group gets large enough, then we start to see rebellion and/or civil war.

    One of the things that the CIA supposedly did to other countries was to take advantage of groups that believed they were getting screwed by the powers that be in those countries. The civil unrest was to the advantage of the powers in the USA. One has to wonder whether those tactics are being used against the USA (and maybe Canada?)

  8. Thanks Ward for saving me the trouble.
    That being said, if anybody is drawn to the ” business owner become rich on the backs of employees,” view, they are retarded, brainwashed, and, in fact, the enemy.

  9. In a free market, a business own is successful because he is supplying a product or service that people want, and at a price they are willing to pay….. and doing that better than anyone else.
    In a free labour market, employees are paid a wage that they are willing to accept, for the services that *they* offer the employer.

    We all wish that we could get paid more for the same item, but whatever you or I are selling, it is only “worth” what someone is willing to pay for it.

    Most “workers” who complain that they are worth more than they are paid, will happily abandon that job if a higher-paying one is available, or shop for the cheaper prices when they are buying. They should be able to do that, but the same applies to en employer in shopping for labour. He isn’t “screwing “ you to offer less than you want.

    Labour too often thinks of itself as a protected species or sacred cow.

    1. Indeed.
      Say a man starts a widget factory with 3000 employees, 1000 workers in 3 shifts. Each employee makes $40 an hour. The owner makes $1 an hour per employee, adding up to $1000 an hour 24/7. Now, take his money and distribute it among the workers, they now make $41 an hour, but the man with the vision is gone, along with all the jobs.
      A pattern that has repeated itself over and over.

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