[consulting] American Labour Laws & Future of Labour

[Victor Kane]

The only thing I have to add to Alex' excellent intervention is, if you are
on this list and mystified because, hey, why are people here discussing all
of this stuff, the answer is that we are living in a very weird moment, in
which a bunch of stuff that does not commonly happen is happening, and many
of us are frankly very concerned.

Concerned about wars, massacres, unemployment, record number of foreclosures
in the US ... and on this list, extremely concerned about something called
the "Drupal bubble"... I am very concerned about my future as a freelance
contractor, but not because I can't find work... This year I have twice the
number of billable hours than last year.

This year is the best year I have ever had as a freelance contractor.

That's what I am worried about... I want to know why it is happening... and
I am concerned that the roots of this "bonanza" are such that no way can it
last in the same way... the Drupal bubble is a direct reflection of large
companies moving to open source as a form of oursourcing, with thousands of
engineers in all major companies (also many going through "merge" and
"destruction" processes) being let go.

And what is bad for some people working for a living is bad for all working
people, because what goes around comes around.



On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
<alex at zivtech.com>wrote:

> You're right, it is amazing. So, which socialist institution shall we
> dismantle first? Social Security ('let them eat dog food')? Medicare and
> Medicaid  (stupid poor people shouldn't get sick- idiots)? Our Armed Forces
> & the VA (The market shall protect those who can afford protection, and HMOs
> can take care of our wounded vets, like they take care of the 40 million +
> Americans w/out healthcare)?
>
> Thank god we haven't let our amazingly efficient and cost-effective health
> care system become taken over by the socialist fascist!Next thing you know
> people will be free to choose a job of their liking (or create their own),
> rather than having to maintain your job simply to maintain healthcare. And
> then just imagine the crazy stuff they'll come up with!  Every day, for the
> year or so that I went without healthcare (no insurer would insure me bc of
> asthma and a history of back problems), I was comforted by the fact that
> those darned socialist bastards couldn't get their hands on our US
> Healthcare system. Sure, I couldn't get my meds, and a simple accident would
> have led me directly into bankruptcy court, but... Ayn Rand! Milton
> Friedman! The Divine Hand of the Free Market! Halleluyah, praise to the one
> and only (ME!).
>
> Nothing gets you motivated to make money like going bankrupt because your
> kid got sick! That'll teach that silly child to pull him/herself up from his
> shoelaces (assuming he/she can afford it) and get working!
>
> Forget about the 'common good', I'm gonna get mine and the rest of you
> stupid 'mericans can go eat a... cake! You can call it selfish, you can call
> it heartless, you can even go so far as to say I lack any sense of
> patriotism or human compassion, but I call it "rugged individualism" and I
> love me/it!
>
> To put it simply: ME! ME! ME! MMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
>
> --
> Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
> Partner | Business Lead
> Zivtech, LLC
> http://zivtech.com
> alex at zivtech.com
> office: (267) 940-7737
> cell: (215) 866-8956
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Heinz D. Wegener <
> heinz at simplexcreative.com> wrote:
>
>> It's amazing to me how much this "consulting" forum is used to debate
>> socialism vs. capitalism. Socialism is completely counter-intuitive to being
>> a consultant. Being a consultant implies that you are interested in finding
>> jobs that will make you money so that you can support your family. You are
>> participating in capitalism. This hatred of corporations is foolishness.
>> Success is not evil. Profit is not evil.
>>
>> My father and his family did not emigrate from Germany to America to
>> experience despair and normalcy. They came with hope, and they had nothing.
>> They were hard working people with a desire to succeed in one of the best
>> countries in the world. My father was 6-years-old when they came to this
>> country. He worked his ass off with the goal of becoming successful and was
>> motivated to do so partially because kids would call him a Nazi in school
>> just for being from Germany. And guess what? He succeeded. And guess what
>> else? He is the most generous, giving man I know, and has an amazing heart
>> for people. There's your evil capitalist.
>>
>> My father-in-law experienced the same type of success after his family
>> fled from Cuba. Both he and my father both become owners of successful
>> companies. With socialism comes the death of that hope that most immigrants
>> had back in the 40's and 50's and still have today. Study your history, and
>> learn the truth yourself. Entrepreneurs were, and continue to be, some of
>> the primary contributors to America's success.
>>
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