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PostSat Aug 27, 2016 12:40 pm 
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I see things that can't be mentioned, and discretion earns repeat customers and a good reputation.
Most remodel work comes from referrals. We live and die by our reputations. I've seen dirtbags come and go- they usually don't last long. The last fool threw away his well paying job by stealing a bottle of wine, from right under a security camera. The idiot denied everything until confronted with the footage. The other laborers, who were also briefly under suspicion, took the clown into an alley near 1st and Pike, and beat the crap out of him until police rolled up and stopped the fight. As for the "things that can't be mentioned"- I've long considered doing a book. You wouldn't believe the stuff that rich people get up to when they think that nobody's looking...

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PostSat Aug 27, 2016 1:32 pm 
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You wouldn't believe the stuff that rich people get up to when they think that nobody's looking...
Poor people don't do weird stuff?

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PostSat Aug 27, 2016 3:08 pm 
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Poor people don't do weird stuff?
Of course they do, but somehow it doesn't surprise me as much. Probably unrealistic expectations on my part, but it seems like rich folks, who are highly educated and financially comfortable, perhaps ought to know better, ought to behave based on some higher standard. But no. They just use classier drugs, cleaner needles, more variety. They have better camera setups for shooting their porn videos. Secret rooms, dungeons, contraptions, expensive toys. It's always a hoot to discover the secret room... I've found dozens over the years. The rich steal better, and are much more likely to get away with it. They steal an order of magnitude (or many orders of magnitude) more than the poor. The poors are often stupid or uneducated, and they lack the sort of access that allows the rich to steal so much so easily. So the poors get a beating in a filthy alley, and a guy like Tr•mp rips off his (poor) workers for years and faces basically no consequences whatsoever. I reckon Capitalism is basically a system that legitimizes theft by the rich and powerful. Once you create a monopoly or some other form of closed system- you can do whatever you want.

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PostWed Oct 12, 2016 11:00 am 
Ever since the first living microorganisms began accumulating nutrients and chemical energy, others have been stealing it -- usually by eating them. "Predation" is another word for "theft". contour5 points out the paradox of the pirate and the emperor: the only difference is scale; the emperor has more pirate ships and steals more. "Capitalism is organized crime." Lundberg, "America's 60 Families" if you want to know who the Amerikan Ruling Class actually was as of mid-20th century and how they got their loot. Lundberg, The Rich and the Super Rich includes a chapter on Amerikan politics subtitled "The Dullest and the Worst" which as you can see today has not needed an update since it was written in the 1960s. Magellan's lament about graffiti vandalism recognizes that this peculiar form of sociopathy has spread planet-wide and must be a symptom of deeply rooted evil in our social structure. I call it "trickle-down morality": when our owners and rulers are basically sociopaths, we can hardly expect our pimply-faced BLEEPhead losers to behave much better (if you want to know who the biggest grfaffiti vandal in town is, look at the bottom of a billboard -- their tags are now TVs sometimes over 100 sq. ft.). If I ever catch a graffiti vandal, I wonder if I will have the courage to kill it? I would so love to, unapologetically. Would it be moral NOT to kill a graffiti vandal? Arguable question.

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