doublegunshop.com - home Forums Seattle and $70K a Year?

Yes Ayn Rand knew one hell of a lot more the Marx, Engels, Lenin and the current socialist the Obamaman. If you don't believe this read on!
NB: Brown if he's still here should read it multiple times!
Jim

Source: Media P J

Some have called Ayn Rand a prophet. But her powers were not mystical. They were rational. She observed human nature with a discernment matched by no philosopher before or since.


In her magnum opus Atlas Shrugged, Rand presented a fictional town called Starnesville, a Midwestern ruin where an important and profitable motor factory once stood. The 21st Century Motor Company was the best in the business, run with efficiency and purpose by the Starnes family patriarch. Unfortunately, when he died, the company passed to heirs who held to a different philosophy.

The Starnes heirs thought the company should be run like a family, that everyone should work according to their ability and be paid according to their need. It was a move celebrated by some and protested by others.

The results were disastrous. Production fell, as did quality of workmanship. Demand for �needs� increased, while claims on �ability� dwindled. In short order, the factory failed.

Rand wrote of her fictional Starnesville in 1957. Today, a Seattle company has followed her script with predictable results. From Business Insider:


When Dan Price, founder and CEO of the Seattle-based credit-card-payment processing firm Gravity Payments, announced he was raising the company�s minimum salary to $70,000 a year, he was met with overwhelming enthusiasm.

�Everyone start[ed] screaming and cheering and just going crazy,� Price told Business Insider shortly after he broke the news in April.

But in the weeks since then, it�s become clear that not everyone is equally pleased. Among the critics? Some of Price�s own employees.

From Fox News:


Dan Price, 31, tells the New York Times that things have gotten so bad he�s been forced to rent out his house.

�I�m working as hard as I ever worked to make it work,� he told the Times in a video that shows him sitting on a plastic bucket in the garage of his house. �I�m renting out my house right now to try and make ends meet myself.�

The Times article said Price�s decision ended up costing him a few customers and two of his �most valued� employees, who quit after newer employees ended up with bigger salary hikes than older ones.

Grant Moran, 29, also quit, saying the new pay-scale was disconcerting

�Now the people who were just clocking in and out were making the same as me,� he told the paper. �It shackles high performers to less motivated team members.�

The Times said customers who left were dismayed at what Price did, viewing it as a political statement. Others left fearful Gravity would soon hike fees to pay for salary increases.

Brian Canlis, co-owner of a family restaurant, already worried about how to deal with Seattle�s new minimum wage, told Price the pay raise at Gravity �makes it harder for the rest of us.�

Rand would say she told you so. The solution to any perceived need is not merely to get more. It�s to produce more. Even charity relies on someone being productive. And people aren�t going to be productive if 1) they�ll get paid regardless or, 2) they won�t get paid better for producing more.

Price is a product and example of how deep the statist, religious indoctrination has gone into the Public School System.

To actually think that such a preposterous idea would succeed is evidence of how effective this faith-based indoctrination has been.

In order to believe it, you also have to have no conception of Freedom, the freedom to excel as an individual.

Ken, that was what I was thinking-how could the founder, and CEO have "missed" the whole supply and demand thing.
Has he never had to fire a bad employee? Never known a couch surfing low life who lives with his mother, and can't hold down a regular job?
I wonder how he functions in day-to-day life.

I wonder how a lot of people function, actually.

Best,
Ted

Jim, I read everything you send, some are hilarious. The US educational system is producing bizarre results. Hardcore blowhards like Trump never made it in Canadian politics. Americans will not elect a racist.

Americans elect rabid racists every election. And Bigots, and Slave-Mongers, and Socipathic Religious Fundamentalists.

They're called Democrats.

Comrade Sralin, cannot you contribute anything but sociopathic, statist, religious demonization?

We have one of the most prominent racists known occupying he White House. He has clearly demonstrated to everyone that "White lives don't matter" to him and the rest of his criminal mob.

This is just one of several links to Obama's crassly ignoring the tragedy that befell the Steinle family at the hands of an illegal felon.

http://www.mcall.com/opinion/letters/mc-shooting-death-illegal-immigrant-hill-20150713-story.html

And King Brown has the audacity to state that "Americans will not elect a racist"! Well: Hopefully come 2016 we won't make this kind of mistake again.
Jim

But not as president in modern times. Americans will not accept a self-declared racist. Citizens of colour definitely not. Americans favouring Trump over qualified Republican candidates must be smoking dope or in a curious mental state.

Jim, audacity is not required to state what is obvious to the country. Americans are not divided on their opinion of their governance---they think their Washington representation stinks. Republicans are now saying anyone would be an improvement, and Trump is trumping Reason for now.

What if, and it's a long shot, Americans spot race baiters and figure out, no he didn't 'self-declare' racism. I know you like the regular guys, because they're beatable by little sound bites like 48%, but....

Six years ago, why would dems pick bo over other qualified dems, must have been smoking dope, eh. Or, they could've had that curious mental state that ran a tingle up their leg because of his race. No, don't feel guilty, I was referring to his black half.

A Republican who is not able to deliver his or her message is not 'qualified' to make the play offs let alone get to the big game. You've shown us here many times that coming armed with facts and figures, only figures to get a 'tolerant' counter feeling that requires equal weight. Maybe, Trump can show 'em the light, and those that let that light bulb click on will be able work good(?) ideas in while completely fibbing along with the 'punks' game.

The most bizarre example of what the American Educational System (Public and Private) has produced is named Barack Hussein Obama.