Hedge fund manager Andy Kessler has figured out the true cause of homelessness: people lose everything and live on the streets because interfering do-gooders provide all those sweet cots and delicious soup-kitchen meals, and if people really wanted to help the homeless, they'd stop wasting their time volunteering, make more money for themselves, and go create some jobs. This insight is folded into
"Everyone who's not working is choosing not to work" - man, I don't even know how anyone can put forth enough effort to avoid reality and subscribe to that self-entitled pap.
For a person who gets justifiably upset about body and gender stereotyping, you're pretty lavish with the generation bashing.
When I was growing up, the Silent Generation was running things. When I was a young adult, it was the Greatest Generation (and the "Lucky Few"). In my experience, there were plenty of selfish pricks in both of those cohorts. I'll grant you "overprivileged", because early Boomers grew up in a world where the US was the only functioning industrial society, but the selfish prickishness is not unique to them.
Right now, it's at its peak, because Boomers occupy the 45-65 age group, so they dominate the upper levels of the job market and politics, and any prickishness is particularly visible.
Having lived through two previous cycles, my own view is that there is a tendency for many people (not ALL people) to become more selfish as they reach that age range. (E.g, the people advocating "Keep your gummint hands off my Medicare" in 2009 were not, for the most part, Boomers; they were "Lucky Few").
What I believe (and hope) is the case is that the maximum and median levels of selfish dickishness are declining as time passes, independent of arbitrary "generation" boundaries. We'll get a better idea of Gen X in ten years or so, when they're 40 to 58, and running things.
Actually, you can do good things with zucchini, because it's like rice. The big problem is there's always more of it than anybody needs.
Dunno. The thing that got me was the kid's paying job was at Jamba Juice. You ever been to a Jamba Juice? I assume the pay is min wage, and the work process is, how you say, inefficient and very labor intensive (not hard labor, but continuous). Sounds like a work ethic to me.
<blockquote>Andy received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1980 and an MSEE from the University of Illinois in 1981.</blockquote>
No matter why Kessler Jr. is doing this volunteering, the very act of interacting with the people in need is what probably makes him roll his eyes at his father. He KNOWS what Senior is saying is bullshit, because he sees the people who need help, and they&#039;re not just lazy bums or whatever. He probably also sees how a toiletry box isn&#039;t exactly rolling in luxury. Junior has a little thing called empathy! Wonder where he got it.
Actually, I&#039;d bet he got it from the mother, who is probably the one who made him get a minimum wage job. She&#039;s also, of course, that bitch-cunt who made a big stink about Kessler getting a little blowjob from the secretary and took him for half, the whore!
What makes this story just a little bit extra worse is that Kessler is getting paid to say stupid shit like this. I suspect his pay is above the minimum wage.
I am sure Kessler goes to a gala from time to time and (low) bids in the silent auction for stuff he could buy himself. My guess is he doesn&#039;t tip the minimum-wage-or-below bartender serving him free drinks.
Good catch.
You gots to make yer own luck, though, so &quot;fortune&quot; is being used in some very Randian sense...
<blockquote>imaginary bootstraps</blockquote>
&quot;Everyone who&#039;s not working is choosing not to work&quot; - man, I don&#039;t even know how anyone can put forth enough effort to avoid reality and subscribe to that self-entitled pap.
Sure, just enable him to reduce human suffering. Libtard.
For a person who gets justifiably upset about body and gender stereotyping, you&#039;re pretty lavish with the generation bashing.
When I was growing up, the Silent Generation was running things. When I was a young adult, it was the Greatest Generation (and the &quot;Lucky Few&quot;). In my experience, there were plenty of selfish pricks in both of those cohorts. I&#039;ll grant you &quot;overprivileged&quot;, because early Boomers grew up in a world where the US was the only functioning industrial society, but the selfish prickishness is not unique to them.
Right now, it&#039;s at its peak, because Boomers occupy the 45-65 age group, so they dominate the upper levels of the job market and politics, and any prickishness is particularly visible.
Having lived through two previous cycles, my own view is that there is a tendency for many people (not ALL people) to become more selfish as they reach that age range. (E.g, the people advocating &quot;Keep your gummint hands off my Medicare&quot; in 2009 were not, for the most part, Boomers; they were &quot;Lucky Few&quot;).
What I believe (and hope) is the case is that the maximum and median levels of selfish dickishness are declining as time passes, independent of arbitrary &quot;generation&quot; boundaries. We&#039;ll get a better idea of Gen X in ten years or so, when they&#039;re 40 to 58, and running things.
Actually, you can do good things with zucchini, because it&#039;s like rice. The big problem is there&#039;s always more of it than anybody needs.
Dunno. The thing that got me was the kid&#039;s paying job was at Jamba Juice. You ever been to a Jamba Juice? I assume the pay is min wage, and the work process is, how you say, inefficient and very labor intensive (not hard labor, but continuous). Sounds like a work ethic to me.
They&#039;re creating jobs. In Vietnam.
Seriously? The &quot;smart one&quot; is less smart than I realized.
<blockquote>Andy received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1980 and an MSEE from the University of Illinois in 1981.</blockquote>
I went to his website, and now I feel icky.
No matter why Kessler Jr. is doing this volunteering, the very act of interacting with the people in need is what probably makes him roll his eyes at his father. He KNOWS what Senior is saying is bullshit, because he sees the people who need help, and they&#039;re not just lazy bums or whatever. He probably also sees how a toiletry box isn&#039;t exactly rolling in luxury. Junior has a little thing called empathy! Wonder where he got it.
Actually, I&#039;d bet he got it from the mother, who is probably the one who made him get a minimum wage job. She&#039;s also, of course, that bitch-cunt who made a big stink about Kessler getting a little blowjob from the secretary and took him for half, the whore!
What makes this story just a little bit extra worse is that Kessler is getting paid to say stupid shit like this. I suspect his pay is above the minimum wage.
Speaking of charity, I wonder how many bowls of soup AIG&#039;s $160 billion bailout would buy.
If I understand Kessler&rsquo;s rational (doubtful) his solution is that everyone should just get rich. Genius!
I am sure Kessler goes to a gala from time to time and (low) bids in the silent auction for stuff he could buy himself. My guess is he doesn&#039;t tip the minimum-wage-or-below bartender serving him free drinks.