The Day I Tried To Live |
3/17/2006
The Day I Tried To Live
Woke up. Read a chapter of "Speaker for The Dead." Sat at the desk, checked the nets.
The same as any other day, people are telling me how to live. Gosh, you'd think I'd'a lived long enough now to see that one comming.
Capitalism Bad and No Right Turn are all sad because Wayne Mapp's Employment Relations Amendment Bill is moving along, thanks to the Maori Party chipping in their votes. One of the things they complain about is how it provides a 90 day window for an employer to fire someone without recourse. Sounds fair to me! Employment should be flexible enough to cope with the ever-changing demands of the marketplace. The person who creates a position should have full discretion about who gets to fill it and not have to carry people who don't measure up. But the leftie blogs want to tell us how to live, make slaves of employers all for the sacred god of people having work.
Work!? If work were the answer to all our problems we could all just dig holes/fill them in ever other day, all day. That's work. That's jobs.
If a 90 day firing window (too short a season for me!) is unreasonable, I would like to know how Maia would like it if boyfriends and girlfriends weren't permitted to part once they'd been on a date? Shouldn't they get 90 days to decide if they want to be stuck together forever too? We don't have a law making them stick together, but if we did then Mapp's bill would be one asking for at least 90 days to break the relationship or forever hold their peace.
In other tell-us-how-to-live news, Rodney Hide bloggs that ACT were the only ones to oppose a law that would make (what?) sign language another official language. Official language! Good for ACT for opposing, but Rodney said it was on grounds of economics. Costing be damned! It’s liberty! A free market for transacting in language works for the same reason free markets always work! Language lives and changes today as it has long before anybody considered attempting to clamp laws on it. How vein these people are who think they can Canute-command our lives to make them better!
And then I got to the third thing. Three things and I blog.
On Stuff, Education Minister Steve Maharey has promised to use more tax money to combat bullying. Great, so the Government comes down to the playground into our lives and tells us how to live in yet another way. Instead of running our own lives and solving our own playground social problems and domestic conflicts the state is going to do it or, at best, be involved in our business. Their "help" will cost us and errode our responsibility to each other and it will cost us because we're funding their damned tampering.
Don't be getting me wrong now. I'm not against new employees (hell, I've had more casual jobs than pairs of socks!), I'm not against deaf people, and I'm not a patron to bullies. What I believe is that these things must never be the fodder for the abusive powers of state intervention, which causes great harm. Also, as far as solving these issues go it is imperitive that we deal with them on the personal level and not the Governmental level. Where we let Helengrad run our lives with our money we implicitly agree that they've got the right to do that and that we can't do it better for ourselves.
What kind of zombies have we become when we need to "dial 111-for-Government" to do what previous generations did naturally for themselves?
The same as any other day, people are telling me how to live. Gosh, you'd think I'd'a lived long enough now to see that one comming.
Capitalism Bad and No Right Turn are all sad because Wayne Mapp's Employment Relations Amendment Bill is moving along, thanks to the Maori Party chipping in their votes. One of the things they complain about is how it provides a 90 day window for an employer to fire someone without recourse. Sounds fair to me! Employment should be flexible enough to cope with the ever-changing demands of the marketplace. The person who creates a position should have full discretion about who gets to fill it and not have to carry people who don't measure up. But the leftie blogs want to tell us how to live, make slaves of employers all for the sacred god of people having work.
Work!? If work were the answer to all our problems we could all just dig holes/fill them in ever other day, all day. That's work. That's jobs.
If a 90 day firing window (too short a season for me!) is unreasonable, I would like to know how Maia would like it if boyfriends and girlfriends weren't permitted to part once they'd been on a date? Shouldn't they get 90 days to decide if they want to be stuck together forever too? We don't have a law making them stick together, but if we did then Mapp's bill would be one asking for at least 90 days to break the relationship or forever hold their peace.
In other tell-us-how-to-live news, Rodney Hide bloggs that ACT were the only ones to oppose a law that would make (what?) sign language another official language. Official language! Good for ACT for opposing, but Rodney said it was on grounds of economics. Costing be damned! It’s liberty! A free market for transacting in language works for the same reason free markets always work! Language lives and changes today as it has long before anybody considered attempting to clamp laws on it. How vein these people are who think they can Canute-command our lives to make them better!
And then I got to the third thing. Three things and I blog.
On Stuff, Education Minister Steve Maharey has promised to use more tax money to combat bullying. Great, so the Government comes down to the playground into our lives and tells us how to live in yet another way. Instead of running our own lives and solving our own playground social problems and domestic conflicts the state is going to do it or, at best, be involved in our business. Their "help" will cost us and errode our responsibility to each other and it will cost us because we're funding their damned tampering.
Don't be getting me wrong now. I'm not against new employees (hell, I've had more casual jobs than pairs of socks!), I'm not against deaf people, and I'm not a patron to bullies. What I believe is that these things must never be the fodder for the abusive powers of state intervention, which causes great harm. Also, as far as solving these issues go it is imperitive that we deal with them on the personal level and not the Governmental level. Where we let Helengrad run our lives with our money we implicitly agree that they've got the right to do that and that we can't do it better for ourselves.
What kind of zombies have we become when we need to "dial 111-for-Government" to do what previous generations did naturally for themselves?
posted by Rick #
11:20:00 AM 
