I would enjoy discussing the philosophies without heat, politics or canned rhetoric. From my own personal experience, as a Union Steward, my job was to take as much as I could from one miserable ....... to give to a large number of miserable .......s. Hurt the one, didn't much help the many.
As an entrepreneur, last year I distributed $2MM to 140 mostly indigent, largely social service dependent, individuals. These are mostly minorities with long and frankly, severe criminal records who cannot obtain employment in the "usual channels". Many didn't last more than a week. Those who understood and helped me with my need to make my customers happy, did very nicely, thank you. It is dirty, dangerous work but I train them thoroughly before letting them loose, and in 7 years, I do not have a single OSHA incident. I think we used 7 bandaids in that time. It is a rare skill, and those who can cut it, can make a terrific living from despite their beginning status of lack of reliable phone service, stable addresses, frequent interruptions of work due to parole hearings, etc.
Other than the handicaps they come with, and I accept to start, I don't take much BS. It requires discipline and commitment to prevent them from hurting themselves or others. I require this, and if I don't get it, I don't feel bad sending them back to where they came from. Everyone depends on everyone being with the program. Some make, and some don't. What I can tell you though, is my customers, unlike that boss who faced me at union meetings, are happy. My employees who make it are happy. I don't know many people who distribute that kind of renumeration to that strata of the populace, and teach them life skills along with it, who think like I used to think when I was a union steward. Whatever anyone thinks of the philosophies, and I'll grant you that Rand is a wretched extremist, I can only hold up the results of the moderated ideology.
As an entrepreneur, last year I distributed $2MM to 140 mostly indigent, largely social service dependent, individuals. These are mostly minorities with long and frankly, severe criminal records who cannot obtain employment in the "usual channels". Many didn't last more than a week. Those who understood and helped me with my need to make my customers happy, did very nicely, thank you. It is dirty, dangerous work but I train them thoroughly before letting them loose, and in 7 years, I do not have a single OSHA incident. I think we used 7 bandaids in that time. It is a rare skill, and those who can cut it, can make a terrific living from despite their beginning status of lack of reliable phone service, stable addresses, frequent interruptions of work due to parole hearings, etc.
Other than the handicaps they come with, and I accept to start, I don't take much BS. It requires discipline and commitment to prevent them from hurting themselves or others. I require this, and if I don't get it, I don't feel bad sending them back to where they came from. Everyone depends on everyone being with the program. Some make, and some don't. What I can tell you though, is my customers, unlike that boss who faced me at union meetings, are happy. My employees who make it are happy. I don't know many people who distribute that kind of renumeration to that strata of the populace, and teach them life skills along with it, who think like I used to think when I was a union steward. Whatever anyone thinks of the philosophies, and I'll grant you that Rand is a wretched extremist, I can only hold up the results of the moderated ideology.
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