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Or With #47:DonTheLiar On The Side Of Bullies And Haters

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on April 14, 2025| Leave a Comment »

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
    —     Albert Camus
[We cannot make America “great” by stoking hatred between Americans or against immigrants.  Almost all of us can trace our families back to some point in history when “we” were the immigrants.    —    kmab]
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Just Keep Hitting The Damned Keys

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Writing, tagged , , , , , on January 15, 2023| 8 Comments »

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of job:  It’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
 
    ––     Neil Gaiman
 
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Get It Done

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , on August 15, 2021| Leave a Comment »

If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning.  And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.
    —     Mark Twain
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When I Grow Up I Want To…

Posted in Career, Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, Family History, Included Video, Philosophy, Quotes, Videos, Work, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on October 12, 2020| 3 Comments »

Cleaning Windows
The “original” LP version…
And a “live” version…
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When my son was young (pre-teen) and we were living in Liverpool, his mum and I used to ask him what he wanted to grow up to be.  He always replied:  “I want to clean windows.”  We always assumed he’d grow out of this “job” answer, but he kept saying it for several years.
One day I asked him why he wanted to clean windows.  He replied:  “Because when you’re up on the ladder, you don’t have a boss constantly looking over your shoulder and watching you work and you get your money in hand after each house.”  I asked him why that was important.  He replied:  “Because the tax man will never know how much you earned, so you can diddle him dead easy.“
I used to chuckle about that conversation every time I heard this song.  Nowadays, I think:  “Someday my son could turn out to be a Republican candidate for the Presidency.“
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Good Business

Posted in Leadership, Politics, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on March 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »

The problem arises, however, of what one is to do with those workers who are replaced by the robots.
It is not that there will be an overall diminution of jobs.  If the past is to be a guide, technological advances create more jobs than they destroy.  Thus, the automobile industry employs far more people than the buggy industry ever did.  Nevertheless, there is a change in the kind of jobs that will be available.  The repetitive jobs of the assembly line will tend to disappear.  The dull jobs of paper-shuffling and button-pressing will disappear.  In their place will be such jobs as computer-programming and robot maintenance.
On the whole, the jobs that will come into existence will be far more creative and will take far more education and training than will those that have disappeared.
It will therefore be part of the responsibility of the corporation of the future to see to the re-education of the workforce.  This could be done out of pure feelings of humanity and philanthropy, but it is more practical to suppose that it would be done out of a very natural desire to preserve the stability of society.  It might save money, in the short run, simply to cast out the displaced, but it would not be good business to have hordes of hungry and angry people ready to change, by force, the economic system that reduced them to misery.
    —    Isaac Asimov
From his book:  “The Roving Mind“
[Asimov is referring to the responsibility of the corporation replacing the worker with automation.  In today’s political climate, it is the unemployed who must retrain themselves (at their own expense).  It is nice when the government can assist, but there is no “legal” responsibility.  And, of course, the corporation has no responsibility to their workers.  It will be interesting to see if this remains a tenable relationship between worker, government and corporation.  I believe it will not be tenable and we will end up with a voter imposed (via government) “New Deal” for workers which will shift some of the costs of retraining / re-education back onto the businesses / corporations of our economy.    —    kmab]
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The Goal

Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , on May 24, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Every job is important and achieving excellence should be the goal.  This is true for work, school, art and life.
    —    Rebecca Barrett
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