Which Side are You On?- Neo Feudalism - WRSA - Weekly Standard Article about the Silicon Valley

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12-01-2013, 14:25
roberth

Which Side are You On?- Neo Feudalism - WRSA - Weekly Standard Article about the Silicon Valley

I know where I stand with the owners of my company, do you know where you stand with yours?

http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articl...sm_768037.html - please read it all

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Two years ago the Occupy movement of progressives raised a battle cry against the “1 percent,” who were supposed to be striped-pants, Republican-voting tycoons lifted from the Monopoly board. What they didn’t know was that the 1 percent actually wear rubber shower sandals, ride bicycles—$20,000 bicycles—and vote Democratic and green, green, green. It was them. It was the future, and it has already arrived in the Silicon Valley.

As I understand it my company tries to outsource me at least every couple of years. They haven't succeeded so far because of the broad task list I am presented with and my ability to complete that task list successfully every day. The outsourcing companies cannot do the work as inexpensively as I do it and that is the main reason I am still employed there.
12-01-2013, 18:26
wctriumph

III

TEA
12-01-2013, 18:40
roberth

What I mean by which side are you on is...are you a serf or a lord...or master of your domain. :)
12-01-2013, 18:43
merl

Here I thought this was going to be a choose your king: Google, Apple, MS, BB. Though some of those can provide less protection than others.

This is not the first place I've seen that reminder that silicon valley has many entries in that 1% Occupy wanted to rail against. I doubt this will go anywhere though. Tech is loved, that can cover many blemishes.
12-01-2013, 18:49
clodhopper

My domain, regardless of size, is mine and I am the exclusive master of it. I depend on no overlord for my welfare. Sure, I work for others for a livelihood, but I am not tied to the job, nor unwilling to walk if I deem it time to leave.
12-01-2013, 20:56
ben4372

No question, most of us in this country are serfs. We serve at the master's pleasure. Even if you paid cash for a home off the grid and used no utilities (think Jeramiah Johnson),you still need a job. And someone will always be looking in on you. Looking for a little bit of your life. Lucky for us there is usually someone below us on the social ladder.
12-02-2013, 01:56
wctriumph

Long reads, I will stand with the rifle guys.

TEA

III
12-02-2013, 08:13
Bailey Guns

I think a lot of us ARE the rifle guys.
12-02-2013, 18:46
Gman

The Best and Worst Run States in America: A Survey of All 50

California is Number 50. The worst of the lot.
12-02-2013, 19:03
roberth

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Originally Posted by Gman

The Best and Worst Run States in America: A Survey of All 50

California is Number 50. The worst of the lot.

They deserve it and worse.
12-02-2013, 19:55
spqrzilla

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12-02-2013, 20:23
buffalobo

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Originally Posted by roberth

What I mean by which side are you on is...are you a serf or a lord...or master of your domain. :)

I rule like a god, until she gets pissed. :eek:
12-02-2013, 20:38
Gman

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Originally Posted by roberth

They deserve it and worse.

There are a lot of folks in Cali that don't deserve it. The government has been so bastardized that the conservative counties have been neutralized. There is a wide divide between western and eastern California.

We've seen here how the agricultural parts of our state are being dictated to by Denver.

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Originally Posted by roberth

What I mean by which side are you on is...are you a serf or a lord...or master of your domain. :)

http://youtu.be/7VSDTMUVSL4
12-02-2013, 20:58
roberth

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gman

There are a lot of folks in Cali that don't deserve it. The government has been so bastardized that the conservative counties have been neutralized. There is a wide divide between western and eastern California.

We've seen here how the agricultural parts of our state are being dictated to by Denver.

Thank you for the explanation about CA, my ignorance of things outside Colorado shines once again.

I made an error with this thread. I didn't mean to suggest that WRSA and the Silicon Chasm article were 2 different sides, I included the WRSA link to show where I found the link to the Silicon Chasm story. The Silicon Chasm story was the main subject of this thread, the sides are some of the enormously wealthy and the rest of us. I wasn't clear at all and I'm sorry. I've been thinking about this and I should have taken more time to think about the message I wanted to convey and then how to say what I wanted to say with clarity.

As an aside WRSA is a great website and they have links to all kinds of articles and other like minded websites that I read every day. I buy some of the recommended books and try to do the things that are suggested by the various authors. We are in deep shit in this country and millions of people aren't even aware of that fact in the slightest way.