Dewey McBrewster

This is funny (circle around the patch on the soldiers vest). You know, when you’re in the killing people business you want a cool logo, something that says, I’ll fucking kill you. And next thing you know… some imbecile revokes your medal, or somebody says, “see, see, look, he’s a Nazi Sympathizer!” sigh

-edit- I just got trolled by Russian propaganda farm didn’t I?

I would suspect entropy. Second Law of Thermodynamics states that total disorder is always increasing over time.

My post is supposed to illustrate some baseline. I used just an off-the-cuff, arbitrary yet heuristic figure from my experience working in, of all things, elderly care. I was a nurses aide and certified as a one-on-one for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients, helping the nurses feed and bathe, keeping the patients occupied…. Walking walking walking… and not falling out of bed etc.

I did this for 5 years.

So if you are running a business, and you have nurse employees, there are expenses, overhead, risks, and profit to take for your efforts. What should that number be? I picked 20% in the hopes someone would give perhaps a more realistic figure. Instead I get cut down.

And no, Im not copy and pasting anything.

What strikes me is, who can pay 3000 a month to watch granny? and that was just nurse salary, not meds, housing, etc. My numbers are made up, I chose 22 per hour for nurse pay, I have no idea what it really is, just wanted to get to get something going and im looking for others to post more data, though the conclusion will probably be the same… its a no win situation unless you’re extremely wealthy, granny dies.

I was thinking more like 20 percent markup as a profit margin. Other fees not included yet

Well, let’s look at the math briefly.

First, what should a nurse make?

Add 20% cut to this for your risk and management.

Then, how many people should the nurse care for?

(Nurse pay * 1.20)/patients=cost per patient

(22*1.20)/5=5.28 per hour 24 hours per day So 126.72 a day Roughly 3,8000 a month per patient just for nurse care. Not including housing, utilities, food, or medication.

Alternatives could be mandatory civic or military duty at 18 for a few years and nursing duty could be in there?

Another alternative could be inmate care, paying minimum wage in municipal bonds, as a way to work off a sentence?

Pay nurses less, requiring less certification?

Outsource nursing to countries where wage arbitrage can be leveraged?

Obviously this was fast and dirty but illustrates the expense.

Local stores have very little locked up here. My area has industry, which provides wages. Wages produce taxes. Taxes are used for police. Through surveilance police arrest shoplifters.

Complacency of theft only backslides society. I will agree that a waning industry, or that our hyper-fixation on growth effects society negatively, but that’s another discussion.

If someone offers a free item, someone will take it whether they need that item or not, whether they can afford that item or not. Nature takes the path of least resistance. It’s easier to take than to work.

As such, there is no incentive to work if the item is free. If there is no incentive to work nothing gets made. Yet people will need things so you’re forced to make items people need. Which makes items not really free after all to the dismay of many an anti-capitalist.

Regardless, there will always be some percentage of the population that will feel above the rest, mainly due to mental deficiency or addiction, independent of the economic system. For punishment of theft I would prefer to see forced induction into the municipal workforce for 5 years, flat sentence with a minimum wage earned in municipal bonds, held in a community barracks with a tapered reintegration into society. A sort of forced communism for those who can’t cope.

I’m ready for the downvotes.

Does the first colony on the moon lay claim to the whole moon, or only an area the colony can defend?

But then what is worth defending, value wise? Strategic location? Mineral or molecule? Low gravity research and development?

I just read a report that said there are many jobs available and in my hometown, I see a steady request for help wanted, technical and other.

I also know that many people find certain categories of jobs menial such as factory work or farming. Maybe it’s an ego, perception thing, maybe because it’s hard work.

AI is taking and going to take jobs, but it would also open jobs, just look at the jobs we need right now that have appeared. Construction of data centers, water more important than ever, copper mining and refining, networks and sysadmin, energy sector, semiconductor manufacturing and many more like photonics (should reduce power and water usage.)

Yes it’s moving very fast and that’s scary. Propping things up, bailing out, however does nothing to improve the situation. Spending the money that would be incurred by UBI on training workers and providing them with equipment would be far more effective.

Maybe, Pixelfed.

If you consider this from an evolutionary standpoint…

The human race is built upon many layers. Some of those layers are animal while others are highly social. Think clans and tribes for thousands of years. If you didn’t fit in that was it for you, it was the collective that made survival possible. Because of this we constantly judge and compare ourselves. It’s ingrained in us through a long succession of embodiments that cared where we stood in the pecking order of the tribe and how we looked to attract a mate. That’s what brought you to your existence. Old habits die hard, and you are seeing them manifest in different ways, we are walking around with the hyper-sensitive, status-obsessed, mate-seeking hardware of a hunter-gatherer, but living in a world of social media.

Want to know more? Richard Wrangham, R. Douglas Fields, and René Girard have some interesting theories on the origins, mechanics, and triggers associated with what you see in society.

Yes! I vote for 65 age cap.

If they want to do dynamic pricing, maybe we’ll just have to start dynamic shopping.

I went to a prison that had a high number of pedophiles. They would often make comments like this to try and portray themselves as normal.

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