Re: psychic required


Please, see below....

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, phil scott wrote:

On Nov 16, 8:24 pm, Straydog <a...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, morrisjc...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
But, he has been unhappy for a long time now. In my own opinion, which I
have expressed many time, I think he has more reason to be happy than
unhappy (since he has a permanent job which is worth more than he thinks,
and I've known quite a few people who never got that and probably would
kill to get his job). Out of even less than a handful of people I know
(that is a total of three) who retired voluntarily (they were not
downsized out or reorganized out), only one is happy about his life. The
other two had greater or lessor periods of absolutely hating their jobs.
All the other people I know/knew (dozens) they all hit the wall well
before retirement. The majority were competant but ran into situations
beyond their control (and I think you know that a pretty large fraction
of the world runs on favoritism, connections, nepotism, pull, suck, power,
clout, dumb luck, and alliances and not on merit).

Over the years I've met very few folks who genuinely liked their
jobs. The vast majority were either neutral/content, or they really
hated their jobs.

This was also the case for folks who ran their own small or medium
sized businesses, who paid themselves a six figure yearly salary.
Even with tons of cash, quite a significant number of them were still
unhappy or even depressed. They found out that large amounts of cash
didn't solve their emotional problems, as they originally thought.

I remember when reading Will Durant's ten volume set, the sentence he
wrote about Roman emperors. He said none of them died happy. It made a
very big impression on me even through all the other volumes when he
digressed off on tangents and did mini-biographies on a lot of big name
people. How many failures there were, guys who were (eg. Napoleon, etc.)
at the peak of their trajectories and then plummeted into the ground. Guys
who bet it all and then lost it all. For every war, there was a minimum of
one loser. Peloponesian war: both sides lost.

I just finished a History of Latin America (by Hubert Herring); old but
very good, easy to read, etc. Man, I'll tell you all down there, they just
got their independence from Spain/Portugal, and from that moment on just
nothing but revolution/rebelions followed by dictatorships followed by
r/r, then d again, etc., over and over and over again. Repression, round
up the opposition & throw in jail or execute. Very large boundary
disputes. Several civil wars. Several ordinary wars. In Paraguay they had
a war and 60% of the population was killed. What was left: women,
children, and the old. Vast majority of guys who became emperors, kings,
presidents (whatever they wanted to call themselves), the corruption
continued, and so did the backstabs. If it was not explicit, then it was
implicit that the vast majority of these guys did not die happy either.

I watched a thing on PBS about Queen Nefertiti (egypt) and they inserted
some words to the effect that there was a lot of intrigue among the hoi
poloi around her, too. They had all of their backstabs, poisonings, etc.,
too. You read the stats, so far a good 30-40% of all of these kings,
emperors were violently over thrown, executed, assassinated, etc. I even
just finished a book on China's history. Same story. All manner of
dynasties, competing bands of soldiers, robbers-thugs-bandits, all clawing
for power-expansion-booty-gold and pretty often they just killed everyone
in sight, burned everything to the ground. Made Caesar look like an angel.
And, you know what happened to him, anyway.

Then, I read about these crook CEOs who feel they are entitled to do
anything they want, get anything they want, and life revolves around the
bottom line.- Hide quoted text -

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Its hard to beat that kind of history...thanks. it adds exceedingly
valuable perspective to life,

I find the time frames the most revealing, especially in the end
stages of national life cycle... they go fast. too fast to really
plan anything on...

have you noticed? under 20 years from pinaccle to the final
collapse.. and the markers at each stage. Importing cheap labor,
hiring mercinaries, govt bloat,
^^^^^^^^^^

Please...OK above and below...but please remember its not just the govt with bloat. All those corporate infrastructures ALSO have bloat (just add up the compensation packages [way more than anyone in govt], just add up the cost-plus corruption, just add up the PR--advertising costs--corp lawyers--lobbying costs--accounting crime [eg Enron and corporate and executive tax dodging]--marketing costs--corporate crime). All this ends up stealing from us and giving to them. Or, shall I repost the book titles
again? Yes, everyone picks on the govt all the time but why is it that
private industry gets a free ride and everyone prefers to look the other
way whenever the subject of doing something wrong comes up?

fiat money... then ruthless tax
collections,,, driving national productiviy down and underground.




Phil Scott





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