5th December 2012 blog # 2
Excuse the rather weak current title, it is simple a Work-In-Progress (WIP).
Today’s musings will cover a great amount of topics but not the chocolate bars, so all you chocoholics may wish to stop reading and get yourself a bar of chocolate before continuing on reading words which will open your eyes and mind to a whole other way of thinking, or not, and I will have merely wasted some of your precious time away from looking at videos of cats on Youtube.
Damn, I really should take notes about what is in my head before sitting here with a keyboard because it flies all over the place, not literally though mind you. Be a bit weird that a head floating around, unless of course it was dispensing wisdom. “Eat less red meat” “smile more” “don’t use facebook to whine about your unfair life”
On my toddle home last night, (this is a continuation of yesterdays writing so we are now on the 6th. It came into my head about sponges/leeches, and the various forms these people take, and how greed seems one of the main tenets of the human condition. We probably all know someone who is a sponge personally and we know how people “sponge” off the Welfare State. I am of the firm opinion of the necessity of the Welfare State, and the massive help it can give, but like most things it is open to abuse or people feel they are entitled to it like the MPs and their expenses, and executives and their massive unwarranted pay rises whilst the workers receive paltry increases. And when they talk about pay capping executive pay in the UK for executives we receive the same excuses, we will not get the best talent in the world to run businesses, but from the outside looking in, some are not doing a very good job at “running” the business. Most of the time it is about trying to squeeze more work from a smaller workforce and placing unrealistic demands on sales so that people get a bonus so that they can get a decent wage, much I guess like the model of waiting staff and taxi drivers are expected to have their income boosted significantly by tips. (something I know of by speaking with a taxi driver who told me there is an expectation of the powers that be that they will make an extra 10% on their daily earnings through tips)
This writing was pre-Christmas as you can tell by the date, (please do not take that as an insult to your intelligence) I just wanted you to know that this part is post-Christmas writing with all the optimism that a New Year brings which can be quickly deflated by opening the newspapers. This writing initially was about sponges that we all meet in our life, and maybe you are one of the sponges of life and you have no shame. Maybe you leech off your friends, your loved one or family/parents. One of those who takes without ever giving back. And you’re not a fun sponge like spongebob squarepants, you’re an unfun sponge!
I seem to have deviated about sponges/leeches so I am guessing that I what was narking me off has subsided into the background. This is not a call to communism, but how that sponges take many forms from those who directly impact on our own lives to those who possibly seem like they don't but in all likelihood do,
I seem to have deviated about sponges/leeches so I am guessing that I what was narking me off has subsided into the background. This is not a call to communism, but how that sponges take many forms from those who directly impact on our own lives to those who possibly seem like they don't but in all likelihood do,
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