Lie Flat

I am very happy that I did not take that attitude in my life. 

I have provided for my old age and taken care of my family. 

The winds blew me to where I am in life.  But it was not random.  Raising the sail, and choosing not to lie flat brought me to a safe harbor.  I have myself, and those who gave me opportunity to thank for where I am.  There was some luck.  Mostly it was my deliberate effort.  My choices.

The idea that opportunities now are not what they were has some merit.  But single men have no right to complain.  Opportunities exist for those who look for and make them.  Single men squander their freedom.

If single men complain I'll ask them how much they spend on drinking in a week.  And who lies down?  Able single Men do. 

Single men live exceptional lives and have the luxury to lie down.  Men with ordinary lives (those with obligations) know they are selfish fools if they lie down.

Lie flat is a fucked up attitude but many people can be confused by it..  The thought of not being compensated ENOUGH for you time is truly disturbing.  But for the professional victim, and the entitled, it becomes a cause célèbre.  A professional victim will claim some jobs are below them, though they may be qualified for no others.

Insofar as the money trick wants people people to value work, and the money trick perpetually cheats the worker, I'll agree that not being compensated ENOUGH for your time is disturbing.  But this concern is not in the calculus of those who lie flat. 

I think they just want free shit.

it comes down to this. 

My objection to Lying down assholes is that it is a decision which is 'All About Them'.  Professional victimhood, and as selfish as any heartless employer who thinks workers in poverty is the natural order of things.

What about the collective?


Life not fair?

Then do something about it.  Don't just lie down and complain. 

*  If a dozen people lie down together it is called a strike.  That is something to be admired and something altogether different.

The whine of the entitled is to be despised.  Loafers and the rich are in the same social class.

I sort of did the lie flat thing.  When I quit my last "real" job trucking and went back to just coaching gymnastics, I took a big earnings cut (about 50%) to just work at something I enjoyed and made just enough money to keep a roof over my head and own a couple of good used ICE vehicles, 1 of which I could have lived in once I retired, which was sort of my plan until I ended up a cripple.

You could say I laid flat when I quit banking because I couldn't stand wearing the penguin suit and making gobs of money by selling dogshit in gift boxes to the low hanging fruit while kissing my bosses ass to get the next promotion.  I still worked pretty hard though at my other jobs which I didn't like either for other reasons, so it wasn't truly lying flat.  Coaching gymnastics was easy work just playing with the kids really.  The only thing I didn't like about that job were the owners who wrote my paycheck.  If I had owned my own gym it would have been perfect, but I was very bad with money after college.  Spent all my big paychecks on drugs and pussy.  Lived paycheck to paycheck after quitting the banking biz until I went into trucking.  By the time I quit that and had some savings, I was too damn old to start a gym from scratch.

Anyhow, I never made any great effort to get ahead and be a big success financially.  After my marriage failed, I realized I didn't want a house or expensive car or even a wife.   There was nothing I needed to work hard for.  All I needed was the Maslow basics plus a computer for communications.  It only took making a lower middle class wage to do that.  It made it very easy to move around and live nomadically.  Very low stress once I got rid of the bitch wife.  I could do whatever I wanted whenever I wanted with nobody telling me what to do.  No responsibilities, kids to worry about or wife to make happy.  I got rid of the last of my old debts with bankruptcy prior to going out trucking and never went in debt again.  No bills to worry about.  I was about 40 when I went out in the truck, free and clear of everything, spent 7 years doing that and saved a small nest egg and then coasted coaching gym for another 8 year before breaking my neck and going out on disability at 55.

Last 12 years would have been perfect if my health had been better, but I wouldn't have been able to retire at 55 if I had been healthy.  So that was a tradeoff.  In any case, I wasn't much of an asset to the capitalist class as a worker through my life.  Just skating by was enough for me.

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QuoteJust skating by was enough for me.

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Loafers and the rich are in the same social class but just skating by is not the same thing as doing nothing.  A person can just skate by without feeling entitled, like the world owes them, just because they are a beautiful flower.  Someone just skating by is still contributing.  One still pulls their weight.

It is a garden of Eden sort of thing.  Eat from this tree, but not that one.  And most of what we do in life is indifferent without great consequence, so there are many trees from which to eat.

An example of eating from the wrong tree follows:

Today I arrived at work to learn that there had been a burglary in the store warehouse when the store was busy and everyone was in front at noon yesterday.  $6000.00 in merchandise taken by a crew of three.  One walked through the warehouse and opened our garage door and cameras show them walking the warehouse isles taking shit to a beater car in back. 

Later they came back after the excitement died down because they guessed correctly that there was not a new padlock on our back door yet.  That was about 4 pm and everyone was in front again.  The first time they used our own bolt-cutters to snap the padlock.  The bolt-cutters I have used to break the seal on a semi truck with, the motherfuckers.  It was a good day to have off. 

Now all the doors at work have locks and the garage door is barricaded by the forklift and pallets.  Cameras have the A-holes checking the door at 6 AM last night.

Scary shit because if someone gets in their way someone is going to be hurt.  In the last year the shoplifting problem has been huge, but this burglary is on a whole new level.

Relative to some, loafers and the rich are indeed special flowers.

Quote from: K-Dog on Dec 30, 2023, 11:45 PMToday I arrived at work to learn that there had been a burglary in the store warehouse when the store was busy and everyone was in front at noon yesterday.  $6000.00 in merchandise taken by a crew of three.  One walked through the warehouse and opened our garage door and cameras show them walking the warehouse isles taking shit to a beater car in back.

Not to be picky, but these guys aren't loafers.  They're thieves.  Very bad, small time thieves called Burglars.

The owners of the warehouse are also thieves. They steal by charging customers more than they pay for the stuff they keep there and pay their workers less than their labor is worth.  They pocket the difference as profit and loaf all day counting their money.  They are very good, big time thieves called Capitalists.

I'm not sure of the difference between skating by and loafing.  The CCP ideologues feel the young workers aren't trying hard enough.  They don't try harder because they don't get anything for it.  They work just as much as they have to to get what they need to survive.  That is just what I did.

The unemployment rate among young Chinese is 20%.  That's not because they don't want to work, it's because the only jobs available are really low paid crap jobs that are go nowhere.  So they just work enough to get money for food and a dozen of them share a one bedroom apartment.  They are just skating by, not loafing.

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