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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