Modern Man

1) If you have a B. A. in Journalism and live at home with your parents because you can’t find a job in your field: Learn to edit. Having typos all over your blog doesn’t say much for your education or potential career options. Oh, and stop watching so much TV and go look for a job (any job) so you can move out of your parents house.

2) If you were born “after” the Great Depression was over: Please don’t talk about it as if you lived through it. You didn’t. Your parents did. This goes for any event. Or, at least make sure the person you’re talking with, doesn’t know your age.

3)  If you are going to hand out your business cards to potential clients: Don’t doodle on them first. It just looks bad.

4) Just having a valid drivers licence, doesn’t make you a good driver. If you tailgate, speed, don’t use your signals and are a general asshat on the roads, it’s not everyone else, it’s you!

Why do the 80% of the population that support the 20% with all of the money continue to do it?

With the world in financial crisis, who has been hurt the most? Is it the top 20%? Hell no. It’s the 80% of the middle and working class that are baring the brunt. The top 20% are still the top 20%. They may go on and on about the fortunes they’ve lost but they still have their fortunes. They are still the top 20%.

I’m all for free market and capitalism but shouldn’t there be a point where we say enough?

Let’s take sports. Does an athlete really need to be paid $10 million a year to play a game? To say nothing of athletes retirement and pension plans that they will get for life. Where do we think that money comes from? It comes from the working class that wants to watch a ball game. We end up having to spend $400 for a family of four to go to a game so the teams can afford to pay these huge salaries.

What happened to the salary caps? Couldn’t the players, managers and owners still live like kings on half of what they make now? Yes they could. Would more people go to the games if they cost half as much to go watch? Yes they would.

The same goes for movie stars. Do the movies get better because we pay a few people $10 to $20 million per movie? Hell no. Could they make the same movie for half that amount? You bet. And why do actors think they should get paid  every time a show or movie they are in gets aired or run?

I know actors that made one or two movies when they were pre-teens. They weren’t even the stars. Twenty, thirty years later, they are still getting checks for those movies.

Should a painter get a check every time someone looks at their paintings? They don’t. I bet they would like to.

What it all comes down to is that the 80% of the people allow this distorted distribution to occur. Why? The 80% have all of the power and yet we act like if we stand up for our selves that we will lose. Like athletes will stop playing? Like actors will stop acting?

There are many more industries like this. It’s not just athletes and actors. They provide a public service, they should be paid well, but not nearly as well as they are. More of our money should stay our money and not just add to the asinine wealth of the 20%.

When are we going to stand up for what’s ours?