Brain Stingers?

Brain Stingers...

I issued myself a challenge. Since brevity is the soul of wit, I decided to take a few thoughts that could fill volumes into three sentences or less of savory chocklit morsels. You're invited to play, too!

---You, too, can be a bank vice president---but phony prestige has its price. Decades ago, banks discovered people would work for peanuts if they could be 'Vice Presidents'. Everyone short of 'maintenance technician' got business cards in place of money, and loved it.

---Generosity is cheap with OPM. Ah, the thrill of confiscating from B, ostensibly for C, for the real enrichment and aggrandizement of A, who is moi.

---The real geniuses that keep markets stabilized (y' don't make 'em in academia), are the very people scandalized by the envious parasitic class. I'm referring to speculators, middle men of all ilks who grease the skids of commerce by moving products and services between differing markets, over both space and time. Dig it.

---The phony 'experts'----certified idiots. College-degreed 'experts' are the bane of the existence of enlisted men, farmers, people in commerce, the trades, shakers in the medical industry, who actually have learned through experience how to complete real-world tasks successfully. Welcome to Wonderland, Alice, where we all pretend ignorance is smart and task-completers are unsophisticated Homer Simpsons.

---"Specialization's" Achilles Heel----Ignoramusism and Arroganciasis. The 'best' in their fields of endeavor, science, commerce, sports, entertainment , typically got to the heights of their professions with ruthless focus and obsessive passion for their area of expertise---and we owe a lot to them. However, they are typically spoiled children in other subject areas, who expect their opinions to be respected regarding whatever the topic they wax embarrassingly on, especially politics.

---You'd think the eco-fascists would understand natural law in human behaviour---and you'd be right---just not the way YOU think. Seriously, an eco maniac can explain to you in copious detail how we all depend on each other's existence, up and down the plant and animal chains, and what a disaster it would be if we couldn't get our hands on a snail darter. Then when it comes to human action (praxeology), their knowledge of eco-NOMICS can fit into the thimble of a bacterium.

---'Pay' and 'Profit take many forms---the price of myopia is we have to put up with the snottiness of those who present themselves as not being so basely motivated.. Somehow those who take the benefits to themselves of their actions in forms 'other' than money, feel justified at looking down their noses at those engaged in financial endeavors. Fact is, money is thankfully, simply (!) a medium of convenient exchange so we can get what we really want: safety, security, food, sex, praise, shallow adoration, power, and a really big flat screen TV's.

---Pin-hookers : geniuses in overalls, the real experts in flannel shirts. Capsule lesson in what really makes the world go around: 'pinhookers' were (are) tobacco wholesalers who would go from community to community buying and selling and keeping the razor thin margins for themselves. This brought stability and general liquidity to whole regions, and has its application at all levels of commerce.

---Country to country, state to state, community to community---how the lie of 'selflessness' robs us of recognizing real contributors to the human condition. Using 'Pin-hookers' as a localized example, by bestowing unearned 'prestige' on the the worthlessly pedigreed among us, at the expense of those getting the real work done, we encourage parasitism and discourage useful enterprise. So absolutely EVERYTHING costs us more!!

---Good bacteria: Roses by another name. 'Pin-hookers', for example. Speculators; 'Profiteers.'

---the visible 'Invisible Hand'. It ain't invisible. Been right in front of us the whole time. We've just been listening to the 'experts' who want unearned appreciation, adulation, wealth and, most importantly, the best the opposite sex has to offer(last one doesn't work, if brains is a part of the 'most desirable' package).

---in a real emergency do you call your neighbor or your congressman? Why? Because you want something done efficiently, inexpensively and responsibly in a timely fashion?


---What would stuff cost without regulation: including medicine and everything else? Doctors will often work for 'half price' or thereabouts if you offer them cash. That gives us an idea of what medical assistance would cost us in a competitive free market unencumbered with layers of regulation, bureaucrats and ancillary professions who depend on congress to keep them on their white collar welfare.

JGreene

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