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Old 01-08-2020, 09:47 PM
barry12345 barry12345 is offline
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The world constantly changes even with human beings. It is what it is.

I got a call from one daughter about a grandson years ago. They were very concerned about their son. Was I like that when his age? I told them perhaps a little but do not worry. What he was doing does not have to lead to bad things.

Microsoft found him and took him to the west coast for three months. Paying everything. Then hired him permanently.

He had the ability to control a development group of eggheads. Apparently notoriously difficult to handle. Through his higher intelligence and creativity. I have no ideal of what compensation he receives.

If he is happy living as an American in Seattle is fine with me. Except for the obvious distance separation. He has been with them enough years now. He may retire with them. I just hope they pay and treat him reasonably.

The only assurance I got. I once asked the daughter and she said he can work almost anywhere. So I surmised they would have to.

Walt Disney enterprises had hired a lot of fellow workers of mine at one time. They had gravitated to the company I worked for. He was notoriously cheap paying for the creative skill level he was employing. They all complained about it. This was in about 1960.

As I look around and observe. The majority of the young cannot do what I could at their age. Yet they are still into many things that I had no interest in for several reasons. Like primarily they did not exist.

The majority of them will make their way though life somehow. My limited skill set is not really updated by incorporation of a lot of the changes. Society evolves or changes to accomodate those changes to some extent. I have to assume it always has.

Disney enterprises today remains a corporation with a very strong bottom line. Their theme park workers claim they are paid so little they cannot really live on the wages. Some corporations in my opinion are internally abusive even when the need does not exist. Of course those corporations will have the highest paid CEOs plus massive cash reserves. The Walton family the owners of Walmart are also another stunning example. Even though they have wealth beyond belief. They refuse to pay a living wage but at the same time are currently buying up massive communications networks. The average taxpayer is left to top up their employee wages.

How tightfisted and uncaring about other peoples welfare can some become. Old man Walton had a house fire. He tried to get his wife to live in travel trailor until the house was rebuilt. She put her foot down as they were billionairs by then. She was not going to live in a travel tailor so they could accumulate a few more dollars. You do not want corporations or owners acting this way as they abuse the concept of capitalisim. They are more users of the system than contributors.

Old man Walton simply used the system to destroy legitimate enterprises and got away with it. It has been an endemic problem since early industrial America. Once the wealthiest corporation in America of the time. The employees had to force a union in to get a fifteen minute lunch break. America in those days had the highest employee productivity rate in the world. No doubt in my mind with what was overall let done to employees. The number of employees that were intentionally killed trying to get better working conditions from corporations. Has never been officially estimated. I read a guessed estimate one time and it was signifigant.

Last edited by barry12345; 01-08-2020 at 10:42 PM. Reason: It was no wonder as the system
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