Rachel Dolezal now on welfare and can't find jobs.
How whites can be Professional Victim Whores too!
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Monday, February 27, 2017
Sunday, February 26, 2017
Rachel Dolezal, Fake Black Person, On Welfare
If you remember, Rachel Dolezal was the 100% pure as the Swedish scandinavian snow white person, who falsely claimed to be black.
People can speculate why she did this, but it was obvious - she wanted to get free benefits and preferential hiring treatment for the rest of her life.
She failed.
And not only did she fail, she failed so badly that nobody will hire her now and she's now on welfare.
Ahhhh poetic justice.
People can speculate why she did this, but it was obvious - she wanted to get free benefits and preferential hiring treatment for the rest of her life.
She failed.
And not only did she fail, she failed so badly that nobody will hire her now and she's now on welfare.
Ahhhh poetic justice.
Friday, February 24, 2017
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Why All of Academia is Bullshit
They are merely in it for the money and cushy life long jobs that avoids the real hard work and toil of the private sector. Ergo, their studies are bunk, resulting in 2/3rds of now SCIENTIFIC STUDIES being unable to be replicated.
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Used Tampons of the Democrat Party
Used tampons of the Democrat Party
Stop complaining about the costs of protesting the Trump family.
Lying to Gen Z about sex and life.
Let's create a fake mental illness.
Cappy's RV mad dash adventure.
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Lying to Gen Z about sex and life.
Let's create a fake mental illness.
Cappy's RV mad dash adventure.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2017
The US is the World's Bitch
Since cognizance, my observation of the US has essentially been a slow motion, 35 year nightmare where I saw the US triumphantly rise from the malaise of its 1970's ashes, to the supreme, undisputed superpower in the 80's, to the slow, inexorable decay that we unconsciously realize today. And while the temperature in the pan has been slowly increased so American sheeple-frogs do not realize it, I and many of my counterparts are not so easily duped as we are fully aware of what has been going on. Slowly, but surely, people on the left have eroded away the sovereignty of the United States, and have successfully brainwashed and indoctrinated the majority of the population to forfeit this precious and vital thing.
If you look at the attitudes among Americans (and western Europeans) their views on sovereignty are perverse and ultimately self-destructive. They take no pride in their respective countries. They have an irrational guilt for non-existent historical sins they did not personally commit. They lack the ability to see the threats foreigners and foreign countries present if you do not maintain the integrity of a nation. They're against voter ID laws. They're OK with 58% of legal immigrants parasiting off of them, and they're additionally OK with 71% of illegal immigrants doing the same. And they give preferential treatment to foreigners who do not like or respect them in our academic, corporate, and government institutions. It's as if they're seemingly rolling on their backs, splaying and enslaving themselves to foreigners because they lack the basic self-respect for sovereignty, self-determinism, and self-ownership of their futures.
We can speculate all we want about why this is.
Americans have been successful brainwashed to hate themselves and the country.
Americans are cowards, afraid to actually fight in a verbal or hot war to protect their land.
Americans are deathly afraid of being called an "ist" and so like Sweden spreads her legs for all the world to rape.
Americans are increasingly siding with the more aggressive people because said people tend to win over countries and societies in the long run.
But whatever the reason, when we contrast these attitudes, or simply juxtapose them into foreign countries, we see how absurd and dangerous America's cowardly and flippant view towards their sovereignty really is:
Imagine going into Mexico and demanding the countrymen not only speak your language, but pay for your everything.
Imagine going to India and getting preferential treatment through H1-B visas over Punjab who lived there all his life.
Imagine going to Japan and demanding the right to vote and that their ENTIRE population simply breed itself out of existence because "diveristy."
And imagine just waltzing into Sweden, living off of the local population, getting the right to vote, raping the locals....oh wait, you don't have to imagine. You can just visit.
Regardless, the point is Americans (self-hating leftists or rightists) can clearly understand why those host countries (bar Sweden) would have every right to arrest us, throw our asses in jail, and deport us. We understand sovereignty. We understand it's "their country." We understand all of this...except when it comes to the United States.
This disgusting lack of self-respect makes us the world's bitch. And the saying "Asia for Asians, Africa for Africans, and America for everyone" epitomizes the world's psychology towards the US. For while Americans have been deluded this past 60 years with unrivaled economic growth and unrivaled debt spending to think resources are unlimited, the remaining 6.7 billion people on the planet know otherwise. They know resources are limited. They know poverty. And if they can get a free meal out of a bunch of easily-duped, self-loathing pussies, they will. It's why immigrants today are majority-parasites and why they really don't care about the morality of being parasitic. Furthermore, if you didn't notice, they are more aggressive than the millennial liberal arts majoring pussies, getting pissed off and angry, daring to protest in a country that isn't theirs because they might be deported and their welfare might be cut off.
This presents a problem all Americans must face. We must deal with the illegal aliens and immigrants in our country that have no respect for the country, no respect for the law, and (get this through your precious liberal-arts majoring heads) no respect for you. They view you as a meal ticket. They view you as a host. And, if you take the time to think about time, money, and labor, they are doing nothing more than simply enslaving you to work for them.
Slavery, no matter how obfuscated, is a reason to go to war. It is a disgusting violation of human rights, we fought a just war over it already, and any self-respecting person will not tolerate it. However, this doesn't mean we have to go to war to re-establish US sovereignty. Deportation is certainly called for and is a much more peaceful solution. Building a wall, no matter what Sheila Lebouf says, is not "literally nazi" or "fascism" but simple self-respect. And simply enforcing the law is not only well within the rights of the country, but moral as well. I sincerely hope these peaceful methods, exercised over the same 30 years the left had to destroy this country, will peacefully re-establish US sovereignty, show Americans it's alright to demand their own nation, and remind the world the US is not their communal property.
But if it doesn't then it's high time the US act a little more like Russia and remind the world militarily. I'm sure an army at the border with Mexico, shooting anybody who crosses into the US would get people's attention. I'm sure building an internal Deportation Army to kick parasitic and criminal aliens out of the country would not only be a Keynesian boost to the economy, but send a clear signal to foreign countries that the US is not their communal time share. And I'm sure that if we just decided to start taking over bits and pieces of other countries whose illegal populations invaded ours, they mind just reconsider viewing Americans as the doormats they are.
But that's just the problem. Americans are doormats. They're push overs. They're weak. They're self-loathing losers who only enjoy the standards of living they do because of the work of their ancestors and the fact we have the world's reserve currency. They are so soft and self-loathing they'll gladly take in people who, at minimum, want to parasite off of them and, at worst, kill them because it's politically correct. They simply do not have the spine, self-respect, or stomach for the violence and sacrifice that would come with a domestic war to reassert sovereignty. And so, despite the election of Trump, you an expect America in the long run to become like Sweden and bend over for the rest of the world. It's not only what modern day Americans deserve, but it's another good reason to do some reconnaissance as well as enjoy the decline.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Trumps Kids Raise Never Seen Before Problem
The kerfuffle over Nordstroms cancelling Ivanka Trumps line highlights what I believe to be the biggest fault Trump has - his lack of grace, couth, and not knowing where he has no authority. Naturally, and rightly so, the media has attacked him and will no doubt continue to go over his behaviors with a fine-toothed, SJW comb. But the problem with Ivanka's clothing line made me realize something about the Trump presidency, and more so his children.
They're not losers.
And not only are they not losers, they're entrepreneurs.
This begets a whole host of potential conflicts of interest, back room dealing, and speculation about nepotism, but it also highlights a problem the American public has not had to deal with when it comes to presidential children in the past. Since Trump has trained his children to be businessmen, women, and entrepreneurs, this otherwise admirable trait, by necessity will call into question whether their dad is pulling strings for them or not. Every business move they make, every investment they take, America will be watching them. And there will always be the specter that Trump is somehow unfairly benefiting them through the office of the president.
But let's think about this for a second.
Had Trump's kids been the mere trust fund baby, spoiled brats that previous presidents' children have been, would America have batted an eye? Admittedly, a lot of this has to do with the fact that Trump is older and his children are adults (contrasted to say the Clinton's, Obama's, and Bush Jr's children), but if Trump's kids had been the typical blue blood losers and NOT the movers and shakers he brought them up to be, would their entrepreneurial endeavors even be in the news?
The truth is Trump should not be disgracing the office of the presidency by getting involved in his childrens' businesses. But the fact they have businesses in the first place to even get involved in is a step up from the "Chelsea the Magic 26 Year Old Hedge Fund Manager Clinton" or the Bush Trust Fund League children that we're typical of seeing in American politics.
They're not losers.
And not only are they not losers, they're entrepreneurs.
This begets a whole host of potential conflicts of interest, back room dealing, and speculation about nepotism, but it also highlights a problem the American public has not had to deal with when it comes to presidential children in the past. Since Trump has trained his children to be businessmen, women, and entrepreneurs, this otherwise admirable trait, by necessity will call into question whether their dad is pulling strings for them or not. Every business move they make, every investment they take, America will be watching them. And there will always be the specter that Trump is somehow unfairly benefiting them through the office of the president.
But let's think about this for a second.
Had Trump's kids been the mere trust fund baby, spoiled brats that previous presidents' children have been, would America have batted an eye? Admittedly, a lot of this has to do with the fact that Trump is older and his children are adults (contrasted to say the Clinton's, Obama's, and Bush Jr's children), but if Trump's kids had been the typical blue blood losers and NOT the movers and shakers he brought them up to be, would their entrepreneurial endeavors even be in the news?
The truth is Trump should not be disgracing the office of the presidency by getting involved in his childrens' businesses. But the fact they have businesses in the first place to even get involved in is a step up from the "Chelsea the Magic 26 Year Old Hedge Fund Manager Clinton" or the Bush Trust Fund League children that we're typical of seeing in American politics.
I'm Majoring in "Spiritual Journies"
Alright class, can anybody tell me what Ms. Gronski did wrong here?
There are at least 5 major topics that are at the forefront of political discussion in the west today that are highlighted/debunked here. Let's see if you guys can point them out/guess them in the comments section below.
OH! In the meantime, if you want to make sure your kids don't because an e-begging, worthless parasite on the rest of society, buy your children this book BEFORE they go to college.
There are at least 5 major topics that are at the forefront of political discussion in the west today that are highlighted/debunked here. Let's see if you guys can point them out/guess them in the comments section below.
OH! In the meantime, if you want to make sure your kids don't because an e-begging, worthless parasite on the rest of society, buy your children this book BEFORE they go to college.
Monday, February 20, 2017
Curse Free Episode #17 of The Clarey Podcast!
All pickles must be crunchy.
Driving an RV from Vegas to Tampa.
80's night time soap operas.
The guy in Tucumcari, New Mexico who couldn't find Illinois.
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Driving an RV from Vegas to Tampa.
80's night time soap operas.
The guy in Tucumcari, New Mexico who couldn't find Illinois.
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Sunday, February 19, 2017
Why We Need Profit - Sound Cloud
If you are wondering where the podcast has gone and why I haven't been able to upload one recently, looks like SoundCloud has ran out of money, and thus, juice to keep the lights on.
When you f#cking idiot leftists wonder "why is profit so important" or if it's even necessary, this is why. Because if there's no money to be made, then why would people, investors, workers, or managers, show the f up to work.
Currently driving across the US in an RV, will find a new host to host the Clarey Podcast later. Might through it up on YouTube in the meantime.
When you f#cking idiot leftists wonder "why is profit so important" or if it's even necessary, this is why. Because if there's no money to be made, then why would people, investors, workers, or managers, show the f up to work.
Currently driving across the US in an RV, will find a new host to host the Clarey Podcast later. Might through it up on YouTube in the meantime.
Friday, February 17, 2017
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Blaming White People Does Not Produce GDP
First it was the Million Meg March, then it was a day without immigrants, then it was Netflix's "Dear White People," and these are merely three grains of sand to add to the desert of anti-white and anti-male propaganda that has been in full swing since the 90's. I take a very indifferent and flippant attitude towards such things because when they're boiled down to their base elements, they're nothing more than socialists making a naked grab for other people's money while cowardly hiding behind their gender and their skin color. However, this led me to a previous epiphany I've had before. Specifically, what do leftists do for a living? While certainly some of the immigrants in the protest do indeed work, and one or two people at Netflix must do some real job, what precisely does the average Million Meg March participant do for a living?
Extend these three examples to leftists at large. The Berkeley protestors that shut down Milo's
Students, professional students, professors, academians, NGO employees, coffee slingers, activists, slacktivists, politicians, teachers, Peace Corp workers, AmeriCorp workers, public sector administrators, diversity counselors, diversity consultants, bloggers, vloggers, media personalities, etc. etc.
If you think about it, all they do is complain. They never actually DO anything. They never actually work. Their entire "business" model, their entire profession, their entire life's existence is to bitch and whine, thereby rationalizing the theft of others (white males being the current target).
But I have bad news for leftists, regardless of your gender or skin color - complaining about white people and males doesn't produce GDP.
This makes me wonder, precisely what utopia are modern day leftists, especially academics, rushing towards? Bar some Silicon Valley Virgins among them, none of them actually produce anything of economic value. There are no farmers, no tradesmen, no butchers, no roofers. There are no carpenters, mechanics, or almond growers. Nearly all of the non-old-school-union-democrats offering nothing of tangible value to society, so who is going to keep the lights on?
Furthermore, like it or not, their most hated group - the Evil White Males - are the ones who do the majority of the producing and keeping the lights on. This is in part because they account for the largest male percent of the US population, but it's also because (bar Asian males), white males enter professions that produce the majority of economic production, growth, and wealth (and is the number one reason they enjoy higher standards of living). Without them, the United States would be a collapsed socialist hell hole, with a mere fraction of the standards of living it enjoys today...which will only serve to enrage the non-union left because, sadly, white males don't need you, but you need them.
Regardless, I'm writing this as a warning because what is guaranteed to happen is what always happens when the non-working, always complaining, academic, professorial, theoretical, air-conditioned class gets their way - communism. And while to many leftists that is their goal, realize you're not all going to be professors. You're all not going to be Vice Diversity Directors. And realize you're not all going to be commissars, bureau chiefs, or life long public school teachers. Like Zimbabwe, SOMEBODY is going to have to till the fields. Somebody is going to have to go out at night to repair the downed electrical line. And somebody will have to grow the food. And all of you (especially you precious suburbanite white kids) with your worthless degrees, "Masters in Social Work," and whatever other unemployable, talentless dipshittery you claim to be an education, are simply incapable of producing those things.
This will ultimately culminate into one of two things. A Zimbabwe like collapse where you replace competent, skilled, and trained people (white or not, male or not) with laughably incompetent replacements as the engines of economic growth
OR
you will have to enslave the productive people to do your bidding while you play make-believe-leader at some made up, unnecessary government job or all work as "teeeeeaaacheersssss." The latter of which will not work either because slaves are not as productive as free people, and well, frankly, at least half the men I know would rather kill as many of you as possible and die themselves before they get on that cattle car.
Of course, I could be wrong. Perhaps somewhere in the world's financial exchanges there's a market for "Complaining About Whites." Perhaps people are willing to pay good money and currency for "Fighting Against the Patriarchy." And I know, like gold, your "Masters in Ethno-Victim-Whoring Studies" carries the cache and intrinsic value just like the skills of an electrician.
But, as an economist, if I had to put my money on it? I'd say you'll all be eating dirt and boiling sewer water, wiping your asses with your "Doctorates in Anthropology," still psychotically obsessed with blaming it all on "white males" because your ego cannot sustain the fact you're an economically worthless person and you have nobody to blame but yourselves for your craptastic lives.
So please, for your own benefit. So you don't waste any more of your finite and quickly dwindling life that you've wasted already. Please do something of value BESIDES bitching about other people. Because bitching and whining never solved anything. And majoring in it to the tune of $150,000 in student debt doesn't help either.
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Thursday, February 16, 2017
Cappy's Petroglyph Adventure
Some petroglyphs from my hike today. If your hike did not include petroglyphs, then you did it wrong. Go back and try again.
Word Hyperinflation - "Fascist"
Applying economics and the Law of Supply to language, when a market is flooded with a term or a word, especially when it is being used for ulterior motives, it lessens the value of said word. I'm of the economic belief that there is a direct and linear relationship between the supply of money and it's value, thus if you double the money supply you lessen the value of the money by half. However, applying the same principle to words the left likes to use when it's losing an argument, I decided to look up the word "fascist" because all the cool kids are using it now to describe a democratically-elected president...who also is looking to lessen government involvement in business and society...which is the exact OPPOSITE of what fascism is.
Regardless, SJW's, antifa's, millennials, and other ignorants have abused the term "fascist" so much that the market has been flooded with 5 TIMES the amount of "fascist" as historically normal. This means today the word carries roughly only 20% of the value it used to and can officially be considered meaningless by adults and mature responsible people.
This has been your "Word Hyperinflationary Moment"
Regardless, SJW's, antifa's, millennials, and other ignorants have abused the term "fascist" so much that the market has been flooded with 5 TIMES the amount of "fascist" as historically normal. This means today the word carries roughly only 20% of the value it used to and can officially be considered meaningless by adults and mature responsible people.
This has been your "Word Hyperinflationary Moment"
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Negro Manosphere
If you don't know, Oshay Jackson is an up-and-coming-and-blowing-people-out-of-the-water YouTuber directly chartering the black male community with agency, purpose and responsibility. I wanted to highlight his channel not just for him kindly plugging my book a while back, but to provide a resource to any young black men out there who would like to hear another black man's voice. His blog can be found here and his YouTube channel here. Stop in and say hello.
Is Wealth Toxic?
Neither here nor there, I would dream what went on behind those closed doors of those proto-90's McMansions, but 10 years later I would wonder no more for I would see it first hand.
A rank and file spoiling of the worlds most worthless children.
I luckily/unluckily knew a family that lived in one of West Bloomington's larger mansions and while on the outside it looked luxurious, rich, and problem-free, on the inside it was hell. The wife was cheating around on the husband. Their finances were always stretched to the limit. And I had never seen so much worthless "stuff" packed into one house. But the worst was the children. The husband was a pushover, neither disciplining his children nor standing up to his wife, and consequently suffered belligerent children, a back-talking son, and a wife that was just as prone to use the kids in a "King of Thrones" way against him, as she was him against them. The husband was certainly spineless, but I couldn't help but realize that if he didn't make $250,000 a year, then the economic realities of poverty would make it a lot harder for him to spoil them, and a lot easier to tell them "no." This would result in much better behaved children and ones I didn't feel like (honestly) punching square in their 8 and 10 year old faces.
Travel north and a little bit east to the gated community of North Oaks, and allow me to tell you a tale I've told some of my readers before. This was the story of the Asian Princess whose parents had a net worth of over $1 billion. After being set up by a friend, I thought she was doing me a favor on account this Asian Princess was super hot, cheerleading for the Timberwolves or the Vikings (I couldn't remember which). And while the sex was good, it was brief as she went full-on psycho because I didn't offer to buy her a soda when stopping for gas one time.
I kid you not. A full grown, then 23 year old "woman" threw a temper tantrum, crying and screaming along I-394 all the way to Hwy 280 where the spectacle ended with her threatening to commit suicide. Being a naive 24 year old at the time, I genuinely thought she had mental problems, when in reality she was just another spoiled rich bitch the American suburbs were ramping up production of at the time.
And then there is the election of Trump.
Though this may not seem related, or at least tangential, it shares the same common thread as the two examples above.
Trump got elected.
Trump won fair and square.
Trump is your president whether you like it or not.
And you have every right to vote him out in 4 years.
Yet none of this seemed to dawn or register with what I estimate to be a good 33% of the population.
The cumulative cry-baby, temper-tantrum shit show put on full display for the world to see by the left is on par with, perhaps even improving upon, the soda-deprived temper tantrum the Asian Princess threw and the back-talking brats of my long-ago friend in West Bloomington. Be it the riots of Berkeley destroying people's freedom of speech, to the Million Meg March, to the terabytes of pure stupidity and ignorance displayed daily on social media by millennials, it does not take a deep-thinking sociologist or political analyst to realize a third of the country desperately needs a disciplinarian father figure to metaphorically spank the ever living shit out of them. And while we can chalk these behaviors up to leftist indoctrination in the schools, or the lack of fathers, or the surplus of spineless fathers, I think there is a larger determining factor that explains this nation-wide phenomenon of spoiled brat behavior.
Wealth.
If there's one lesson I've learned from Asshole Consulting it's that people cannot learn unless they suffer, and suffer mightily.
Fuck "positive reinforcement."
Fuck "not keeping score."
And fuck encouragement.
Lessons are only learned, and learned most expeditiously, when there is immense pain, agony, and cost associated with it.
I can scream at the top of my lungs,
"Don't major in stupid shit!"
or
"That 24 year old girl with big tits and a 50 year old boyfriend is leading you on and in it for the money!"
or
"Don't buy that boat!"
And I can provide every bit of reason, logic, empirical data, and evidence as to why you shouldn't do these things. But people will still end up with
$150,000 in student loans for a Masters in Anthropology,
a broken heart and broken nose, and
the financial world of trouble that is known as a boat.
It is then, and ONLY THEN do they realize what I said was right. It's why I charge an egregious fee because in order for my clients to learn it needs to hurt. And it's worth every penny because $100 of preventative pain is better than the $150,000 and decades worth of damage.
But no matter how vital pain is to advance and progress in life, there is one thing that acts as a shield against it, and therefore blunts and counters any real life learning that is so vital and desperately needed to be successful in life.
Money. More specifically, wealth.
Take for example two seemingly unrelated groups of people.
SPWL suburbanite brat princesses and welfare ghetto trash.
While they may have very little in common, what they do have in common is that they are indeed shielded from the full costs and consequences of their mistakes.
Daddy's little Suburbanite Princess can wreck a car, major in stupid shit, flail about in life well into her 30's and never suffer an ounce of pain, starvation, or reprecussions because daddy will simply bail her out.
You typical ghetto/trailer/barrio trash may not have the benefactor of a rich SWPL suburbanite daddy warbucks, but they have Daddy Government bailing them out just the same.
Didn't want to study hard in school? Got pregnant at 15? Got in trouble with the law? Started dealing drugs? Never majored in a stupid subject because you never made it to college or trade school? Didn't save up anything for retirement? Had more kids than you could afford?
No worries what so ever! The
And the consequences are the same - worthless, parasitic people who live off of others and are a drain on society.
In my 40 years of life on this planet, watching everything from spoiled rich kids at parochial school, to spoiled brats at "The Carslon School of Management," to dating scores of suburbanite princesses, to my beloved governor Mark Dayton, to Presidents Bush and Obama, to watching both the bankers and their clients getting bailed out by the government, I am COMPLETELY and thoroughly convinced that money/wealth is absolutely 100% toxic to human beings. At best it turns them into worthless layabouts like the Kardashians, and at worst it turns them into evil, vile, destructive people like Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi.
This puts society, not to mention my capitalist-loving self, at a quandary. Money and wealth is what improves and enhances our standards of living. It's what humanity and every person has been working towards and desires. Infinite wealth is what economists (in theory) dream to be the perfect utopia. But if money is so destructive to the human mind and the rest of humanity, how can this be reconciled.
Simple. The one thing that inoculates humans against the toxic effects of wealth.
Earned wealth.
You have to work for it.
I've often debated starting a "Spoiled Brat Trust Fund Baby Camp" wherein I'd put the world's most worthless spoiled brats through a painful bootcamp. It wouldn't involve push ups or 10 mile runs, but simply cutting them off from their parents' finances and dropping them off at the bus station with $1,000 and saying "good luck!" Every great once in a while a rare rich kid does this (I recall an heir to a 1920's fortune running away from his family so he could live among the normal people - his name escapes me now), but for the most part pampered children lack this level of maturity, discipline, rigor, and introspection. Regardless, the point is the only way people can learn the value of a dollar and never be corrupted by money and wealth is by staring starvation and poverty right in the face, perhaps even wrestling with it for their very own life, so they know PRECISELY what it takes for an individual to support him/herself and just what a precious commodity money truly is. It also humbles them so they know what the average person on the street endures and suffers, resulting in a communal respect for your fellow man, especially those not born into the
It is doubtful that the rich, even those who borrow their wealth to spoil their children (which are many more in number than you may realize), will have the perspective, insight, and true consideration for their follow man and society to raise their children unspoiled, unpampered, and bounced around a little bit in the tough world of reality. Often times this is due to the originator of the wealth loving their children to the point they do not want them to suffer. Other times it's simple hubris and ego about "their family" being better and more important than others. Regardless, the result is the same - worthless people who lack the ability to love their fellow man, have an entitlement problem, lack the ability for altruism and empathy, and frankly are the cause of the majority of problems and corruption we witness in the world today.
If rich people really want to help the world, and if leftists really want to help the poor, and if you want to stop raising the worthless lot of college protestors living off of the government-student-loan-dime, stop spoiling your children.
Be it a trust funder
A 5th generation welfare bum
A 6th generation single mom
Or daddy's precious suburbanite princess and prince majoring in Social Justice Warrior studies on his 3rd-mortgage-dime
knock it the fuck off with blank checks and unlimited government bailouts and force them to become real world, full-agency, self-supporting adults.
Not only will they thank you in the long run, but society won't collapse either.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Episode #185 of The Clarey Podcast!
How do women clean bras?
Review of John Wick.
Why white people won't boycott Netflix.
Time vs. Financial Debts.
Christians upset about Cappy's article.
Eliminating the liberal arts.
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Review of John Wick.
Why white people won't boycott Netflix.
Time vs. Financial Debts.
Christians upset about Cappy's article.
Eliminating the liberal arts.
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Prof. Josh Roiland Should Serve as a Warning to All Liberal Arts Majors
Are you millennials waking up to just what a racket these posers and frauds in colleges and universities are? They can't even support themselves!
Seriously, buy my book "Worthless" and don't become a worthless person like Josh Roiland.
Seriously, buy my book "Worthless" and don't become a worthless person like Josh Roiland.
Monday, February 13, 2017
Ice Box Canyon and the Talented Mr. Le
Some pictures from Ice Box Canyon (named after a cold, Christian ex of mine) and a hike with my good friend, The Talented Mr. Le:
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Marvel Backing Off Politics?
Highly doubt it. Their talentless writers (like many Gen X'ers and Millennials) have substituted politics and virtue signalling in for genuine accomplishment. But there seems to be hope!
Feminism is Largely a Western White Woman Affair
An outstanding article from Return of Kings that I read in preparation for an Asshole Consulting client. One of the best, if not, "the" best article I've seen about how race, history, and economics results in feminism being largely a white western woman affair.
Saturday, February 11, 2017
St. Paul Public School Teachers Getting Exactly What They Deserve
Oh nosies! After refusing to discipline children based on race, the kids are starting to terrorize the public schools! But before you start feeling sorry for the teeeeaccheeerrrsss, remember, they voted for it, and as far as I'm concerned, deserve it:
St. Paul Public School Teachers Reap What They Sow by aaron-clarey
St. Paul Public School Teachers Reap What They Sow by aaron-clarey
Friday, February 10, 2017
Curse Free Episode #17 of the Clarey Podcast!
RV's aren't an investment.
Cappy's dream of a South Dakota farm and classic car shop.
"They Say"
Marc Mevzinsky, Cappy's New York Pathetic Nemisis.
Why St. Paul Public School teachers deserve their students.
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Why St. Paul Public School teachers deserve their students.
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Dr. John Bates, Global Warming Whistleblower, Confirms Bias of "Climatologists" and NOAA
I don't know how much more proof you people need to see global warming is a scam.
Oh, wait, that's right. You're worthless people with nothing of real value or purpose in your lives so you subscribe to this global warming religion all so you can feel good about yourself without putting for the effort required of real achievements.
Oh, wait, that's right. You're worthless people with nothing of real value or purpose in your lives so you subscribe to this global warming religion all so you can feel good about yourself without putting for the effort required of real achievements.
Thursday, February 09, 2017
If Christians Led with the Truth Instead of Lies, They'd Have the World They Wanted
A friend of mine put me on to a Pastor John MacArthur. Though agnostic, I am not against listening to religious sermons in that traditional religions are often sources of wisdom, advice, and philosophy. And if you get a good presenter such as Mr. MacArthur even an agnostic hell-bound heathen such as myself can glean a valuable lesson or two from him. However, enroute from Phoenix to Vegas I was listening to a particular sermon from Pastor MacArthur about the role of government in a Christian's life, specifically how a Christian may be prone to respond negatively to over-taxation. And while I was interested in how a religious person would view the role of an increasing socialist state into one's private life, he cited a common complaint that is the subject of my post today.
The lamentation of anti-religious types trying to purge Christianity from the government and history of the US.
This is nothing new. Most recently near my hometown, Belle Plaine became the (almost) victim of the reprehensible attention whore, Annie Laurie Gaylor and her "Freedom from Religion Foundation." Gaylor has a lengthy rap-sheet of harassing small American towns to provide her meaningless life with a meaningless point, but she is certainly not the only person driving the purge of religion, "god," and Christianity from the government. Hawaii's legislature succumbed to the pressure of the ACLU to do away with prayer before their sessions. Schools are doing the same. And in general most democrats and leftists seem to have a vendetta against religion in places where it's been historically, traditionally, culturally, and above all else, benign.
This then begets decries from the Christian community as they see god, Jesus, Christianity, etc., increasingly removed from their culture, to the point it's logical conclusion will be, like smoking, that you'll only be able to do it, observe it, and partake in it within the confines of your own home.
But what really confuses Christians is the seeming personal nature of Gaylor, the ACLU, and leftists in general. Why don't they pick on Jews? Why don't they pick on Muslims (they're cowards). And why are they seemingly searching for problems that don't exist, just to give them the fabricated rationale to further erode and eat away at Christianity in America?
Well I have a theory. And though my theory may not be right, and it may not stop this uncalled-for assault on Christianity in America, it might at least explain why and therefore provide some sanity to my Christian brothers and sisters.
You lied.
And more so, you lied to the absolutely worst people you possibly could. Christian children.
My Christian colleague Chris Bechtloff, who I love dearly, likes to simply dismiss this as the "Fuck You Dad Stage" of Christian children. Children raised under Christian homes are forced to attend church. And as they age, natural rebellion sets in. You add a bit of secular or atheist philosophy from school, and like a 15 year old highschooler claiming he's an "anarchist" or a "marxist," soon you have a rebellious teenager leaving the church for good because it's cool, it's fun, or (frankly) you're so poorly educated in your own religion, you can't tender the arguments to reason him or her back.
But whereas this plays out in practically every Christian household resulting in the rank and file Americans who inevitably return to the church when they have their own children, the future Annie Gaylor's of America, the ones who actively wage war against Christianity are ironically forged in the furnaces of the most Christian (and I would say extremist) of homes.
Be it a born again Christian family where the parents falsely use "god" as an excuse/forgiveness for their mistakes and force the fanaticism upon their children
The family of a pastor/preacher where god and the church and him/herself are more important than the children and the bible is manipulated to verify it so
Or just good ole fashioned hate-filled, power-hungry sadists who "lord" the bible over their children as a means to control them juuuuuuuust under the line of law of abuse
that is the fire that turns your children from obedient little future Christians, to the Anakin Skywalkers of the Christian world who will wreak massive havoc on the Christian community in the future.
And it all starts with a "first step lie." A "virginal lie" or "original sin" if you will.
You tell them you have proof that Christianity is the true religion....
oh...I almost forgot!!
and if you don't believe that you will burn in hell.
This is bad enough scaring the piss out of little 3 and 4 year old children who want another cookie, but are threatened with eternal damnation for daring to covet said cookie. But the extremism, the zealotry, the fanaticism that some Christian households have is that incredible pressure that galvanizes a future enemy of Christianity. And it is that pressure, combined with that innocent lie up front that creates the people presenting the majority of the problems you face in America today.
For what will inevitably happen, especially under hate-filled Christian households, is a child will try his or her best to appease and adhere to the impossible (and often changing) standards of their parents, pastor/s, and teachers. In the process, this hate-filled Christian household will ruin that child's childhood. They don't know that of course because they're in the thick of it, but they will grow up. And when they do, they will come to realize a few key things.
1. Their childhood was wasted. Matter of fact there was no childhood to speak of. And with the demanding pressures of self-supportation, survival, employment and general adulthood upon them, there's no way they can ever get it back.
2. They family was ruined. I know, I know, "God is more important than the family," "Abraham Issac," those are really cute lies evil people hide behind and abuse Christianity with in order to excuse their lack of parenting, love, or effort in raising children. But no matter how you excuse it, the child has no family, and they WILL realize that when they're older, and your religion will be to blame.
3. No matter what you say, Christianity (and all religions) are circular in their logic and proofing. You have no empirical evidence. You have no scientific proof. And Christianity (as is all religions) is not proven by the scientific method. You can go ahead and rush to your bibles (or Torahs or Korans) and try to rush to the page where some nomad high on khat wrote something while sunstroked in the desert 4,000 years ago, but I know you know that isn't proof because...
4. Four...ah yes...four. In the end, when you get into it with even the most ardent of preachers, the most devout of pastors, they inevitably concede it's all about belief. It's all about faith. Ultimately there is no proof, and the entire religion hinges on your belief in Jesus. This is so key to Christianity that my father's (and many other pastors') churches were/are ACTUALLY NAMED "FAITH."
But think about that. "Faith."
Not "Proof."
Not "Evidence."
Not "Empiricism."
You name your churches FUCKING FAITH.
Which means that first lie you told to those little 2 and 3 year olds, was precisely that. A lie. And a lie that costs those innocent children their lives, or at least their childhoods.
Alas, when you sheepishly admit to the now-adult child, who now has the logic and reasoning ability to get you into a corner, that it was all a lie AND that the price was a lost childhood, a lost family, untold mental torment, AND a likely dysfunctional and impaired future...
what the hell did you think they were going to do?
They are going to go on the war path and exact their pound of flesh with a couple gallons of blood for interest for a debt that quite literally cannot be paid back.
Alas, you needn't "wander the desert" anymore. These people actively, passionately, and aggressively attacking Christianity are Christianity's own creations. They are your own Frankenstein monsters who are turning on you. And though I charge egregious "Dr. Emil Schaffhausen" fees for my advice, let me impart a little free advice to the Christian community.
Lead off with the truth with your children about your religion.
Tell them it is a BELIEF, a FAITH, a THEORY you have and choose to believe in.
Present to them your bible and the many founts of wisdom within. Explain to them why you believe those things and subscribe to such doctrine and why you think the child should too.
Even WAIT until they're old and mature enough to understand the concept of "beliefs," "faiths," the "after-life" and morality and make your case then.
If you do that they may just stick with Christianity. Better still, in the long run they might actually turn out to be genuine Christians who understand the faith and are sincere in their belief, unlike 95% of the posers you have filling up the pews now.
But for the true love of God, don't break your own damn 9th commandment by lying to your own children.
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Wednesday, February 08, 2017
Will ABC Cancel "When We Rise?" Doubtful, But...
If you didn't know, about two months ago ABC launched a trailer for their upcoming mini-series "When We Rise." It was so bad and such a blatantly biased, leftist piece of lecturing, indoctrinating shit that it had 2 million views and a downvote ratio of 3:1. Everybody hated it. Straights hated it. Whites hated it. Blacks hated it. Gays hated it. About the only people who didn't hate it was the professional SJW/victim whore class that vainly tried to defend it with the obsolete, ineffective, and tiresome accusations of genderism if you didn't like the movie.
Naturally, in a country that has gotten over homophobia decades ago (not to mention) are sick and tired of being falsely accused of bigotry, there was a backlash. And so large was the backlash ABC took down the trailer, leaving my mocked version of it (to my knowledge) the only one that has the original footage.
But then something interesting happened.
Quite quietly ABC released a "new" official trailer of "When We Rise" which begat the same disgust ratio of 3:1. But what's particularly interesting about this video is that it only has 40,000 views compared to it's pre-taken-down-video peak of 2 million. It's interesting because, while ABC is a traditional media company, it's not like they don't have the digital muscle to plug the show on it's various arms and subsidiaries giving it a million views like it had before. Matter of fact, bar leftist online media sycophants who are obliged to fawn over this tripe, I haven't heard a peep about "When We Rise." It indicates to me that this show is SO bad and going to be received SO horribly by the public, that ABC is quietly and sheepishly trying to back out from this trainwreck, limiting the damage as much as it can. This was confirmed in my mind where it was announced ABC would postpone an episode of "When We Rise" for Trump's congressional address.
Admittedly the president's congressional address is a more important event than a mocku-drama-mentary. But if ABC was so bold coming out of the gate with "When We Rise," AND given their general hatred for President Trump, why are they collapsing? Are they not for gay rights? Don't they want to blame everybody in America of hating blacks, hipsanics, gays, and women like they patently did in the original trailer? Aren't they aware that normal, everyday Americans don't view themselves as homophobes and racists, and NEED to be FORCED to realize they are? And aren't they aware that there's some people who INSIST they're not homophobic or racist and need to be lectured into submission?
The truth is saner heads at ABC are slowly (and very reluctantly) realizing that normal, everyday Americans are sick and tired of being accused of "isms" and "ists." That Feminists Ghostbusters, Birth of a Nation, the upcoming Oceans 8 and other forced leftist/diversity/"you're racist" propaganda does not sell, especially so when you can't even mask its political agenda.
I sincerely hope Sony, ABC, and any other media company out there puts their reputations and their shareholders' money on political sermons, propaganda, hate, and race baiting. Because dumb as the American population is, the Trump presidency is proof they are slowly (eeeeeveeerrrr so slowly) waking up. And I can't think of anything better than you genuine bigots and race whores losing money.
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Tuesday, February 07, 2017
Explaining Public School Teachers
I'll say it again for the cheap seats.
The public schools are obsolete because YouTube and a decent stay at home parent can do infinitely better than they can. Shoot, YouTube and a curious kid can outdo a teacher with a million dollars worth of taxpayer's funding.
And when you're done having a laugh, buy this book for ALL your children or any young people you care about to make sure your poor kids don't screw up their lives even more by majoring in a stupid subject.
The public schools are obsolete because YouTube and a decent stay at home parent can do infinitely better than they can. Shoot, YouTube and a curious kid can outdo a teacher with a million dollars worth of taxpayer's funding.
And when you're done having a laugh, buy this book for ALL your children or any young people you care about to make sure your poor kids don't screw up their lives even more by majoring in a stupid subject.
Episode #184 of The Clarey Podcast!
Hiking the Sabino Canyon.
A 4 year old BRILLIANT girl thinks Cappy is VERY handsome!
Why traditional women have an uphill battle.
Tai Lopez and "knaaawledge"
HR "Cut and Paste" Workshop.
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Monday, February 06, 2017
Why Being Called a "Racist" or "Sexist" No Longer Means Anything
Right before I fell asleep I had a pleasant, though melancholy thought. It was about how great it was to be a kid in the 80's. The cartoons were great. The movies were great. We would bike everywhere. We were the last generation of kids who could "just go outside and play." And for those of us old enough to remember the 70's, we VERY MUCH appreciated the stability and jobs Ronald Reagan provided for our families (and I'm not even being disingenuous in the slightest, Ronald Reagan WAS a calming, father figure). But perhaps #3 of the "Top 3 Things I Miss About the 80's" was that racism and sexism never entered my mind once during that entire decade...unlike the daily scourge it is today with the left and media constantly shoving it in our faces.
Think about that (or perhaps reminisce back to those days).
Days, weeks, months, even years, where you didn't have to worry about being called a racist, having "privilege," let alone watching your neighbors actively hating, even acting on the demise of the country.
We'd play with our buddy Luther (black kid).
We'd watch The Cosby Show.
And like every other kid we dressed like Michael Jackson in the 4th grade Halloween party (we had those in school).
And nobody batted an eye. Want to know why?
Because nobody was racist or sexist. It was a nice time. A wonderful time. And I'd dare say that if an HONEST sociologist (ha ha, I know) were to study it, I'd bet we'd find race and sex relations to be at a peak during the 80's (bar the Olympiad Baby Boomers who were specializing in divorce at the time).
Enter in the reliable left.
With a game that is as old as 2nd wave feminism, but a new one we didn't recognize at the time, a concerted and conscious effort to split the country along the lines of race, gender, ethnicity, and religion, pitting them against one another, while making "whites," "straights," and "males" the villain, was implemented and pursued aggressively. The attack increased and intensified over time into the 90's, and the crescendo hasn't relented, resulting in the never ending and daily cacophony of accusations of people being an "ist" of some sort today. It has gotten so absurd the left borrowed a page from the Christian playbook accusing all people of having "original sin," manifesting itself as "privilege" and "institutional racism/sexism," meaning me and my 8 year old cohorts in 1983 actually were racist against Luther and sexist again Christy, we just didn't know it, AND we are certainly oppressing minorities and women today. And while pitting neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend, and destroying the sexes for one another for two full generations is a digusting sin the left will never be forced to atone for, one cannot deny they were entirely successful with it.
Two full generations, both Gen X and the Millennials, were so steeped in this leftist brainwashing in school and college that they either forgot the halcyonic days of the 80's, or never got to experience the joy of a truly post racial society. Conditioned to blame the triumvirate bogeyman of "white," "male," and "straight," you not only have the majority of the population obsessing about race and sex, but the media and academia, now both thoroughly taken over by brainwashed (and talentless I might ad) Gen X and Millennials, is only capable of obsessing over race and gender, penning scores of pieces daily that do nothing but propagate the fires of racism and sexism. Ergo not only is "racism" and "sexism" the fake topic dejour they've been conditioned to write about, that's all they seem to write about, obsess over, and discuss. And while it may anger those of us who don't like being falsely accused of "unconscious sexism" or "racism," because of the number AND intensity by which Gen X and CERTAINLY the Millennials obsess over it, their constant mentioning of it does one thing...
It lessens their value.
Matter of fact, I wouldn't say the constant choir and accusations of racism and sexism lessens the value of their meaning, but at the rate Gen X and Millennials are going, it makes these words completely meaningless. And if you don't believe me, just think about it. If you had to hire somebody who was accused of being a racist in 1990, would you hire him? Likely not. But today if somebody was called a "racist" or a "sexist" you're almost more likely to hire that person simply because
1. Not only do millennials and Gen Xer's call everybody that bests them a racist or sexist, but
2. It means that person probably stood for something and therefore has character
But the real reason the terms racist and sexist no longer carry any meaning is simple economics. They've been overused. The baby boomer left was certainly successful in getting two generations to blame everything on skin color and "vagina," but in doing so flooded the US public forum with the word to the point the law of supply means those words mean nothing. We don't have data going back to the glory days of the 80's, but in just the 12 years of Google trend data that is available (and indexing them to those years) we see just how over used the terms "racist" and "sexist" are.
From 2004, when the strategy of falsely accusing people of of racism and sexism was certainly in full swing, this cowardly (but highly successful) tactic tripled upon its previous success to today. People are talking and I would say accusing people of being an "ist" at thrice the rate they were in 2004. When you look at the despicable and cowardly term "glass ceiling" it's even more exponentially repugnant, showing a increase of 10 TIMES that in 2004
But for all that success in getting society to hate itself and loathe their neighbors, to saner minds, to more mature people, and to people who simply don't have their heads up their ass, such an overuse of the terms now renders them useless. You don't have to be an economist to know that when you triple or increase supply 10 fold the value of whatever you are supplying will tank. If I triple the number of XBox's in the market, triple the number of girls at a night club, or GM triples their production, the value of said items will crash. And with words it's no different.
According to the left EVERYBODY's a racist.
According to feminists "EVERYBODY'S a sexist.
To para-quote Syndrome from "The Incredibles"
"When every one's a racist/sexist, then no one will be."
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Friday, February 03, 2017
Cappy's Adventures on Camelback Peak...and Peralta Trails...Again
In short, just more pictures to give the proverbial "fuck you" to my old bosses and brag about my new lifestyle.
Friday Afternoon Listening Pleasure
I present to thee, these podcasts three.
1. Black Brigade where DT does a great job dissecting the hate filled, disgusting rant of Ashley Judd.
2. Adam Piggott explains how world-traveling, vagabond, international playboy, DINKs choose quality hotels. I'm not sure I'm about to drop $300 a night on a hotel, BUT IF I WERE, then I'd make damn sure it was perfect. Adam explains how.
3. The right mix of politics, video games, geekery, and locker room talk from The Betchloff.
1. Black Brigade where DT does a great job dissecting the hate filled, disgusting rant of Ashley Judd.
2. Adam Piggott explains how world-traveling, vagabond, international playboy, DINKs choose quality hotels. I'm not sure I'm about to drop $300 a night on a hotel, BUT IF I WERE, then I'd make damn sure it was perfect. Adam explains how.
3. The right mix of politics, video games, geekery, and locker room talk from The Betchloff.
Thursday, February 02, 2017
Never Start a "Tiger Tank" Company
I have a friend who runs an international business. A real one. One with employees, divisions, departments, and multiple offices. It is indeed international with clients in the US and production in China. And he is indeed successful, enjoying the finer things in life that the 99% will never work up the work ethic to enjoy.
The company is also the bane of his existence.
If it's not shipping, it's customs.
If it's not customs, it's some critical employee who put in his notice.
If it's not an employee, it's a customer who didn't pay in time.
And if it's not the customer, it's his fledgling subsidiary with a never ending litany of growing pains.
On a GOOD DAY 40% of his time is spent actually managing. The remainder of it is merely putting out fires and dealing with problems.
Thus are the problems of starting a "Tiger Tank Company."
If you don't know what the Tiger Tank was, it was the "premiere" tank that debuted in WWII. Virtually unstoppable, superior in nearly every regard, if you pit any other tank against it, that other tank would lose. And thus when the Germans released their Tigers on the field, other tank crews would rightfully fear because there was a good chance they'd lose their lives.
But the Tiger had a huge disadvantage that nearly every other tank did not have. It was overly complex. And since it was overly complex it had infinitely more problems than any other tank.
The transmission would break, the gas consumption was unsustainable, the fuel system would leak, the suspension would break. It may have delivered on everything a tank commander could ask for...that's while it was working and not in disrepair.
Inevitably it was the Russian T34 tank that would doom the Tiger Tank. Though not as massive, armored, or weaponized, it was cheaper to produce, faster to produce, more efficient, and had only a fraction of the problems. So while the German Tiger Tank could take out 3, 4, even 10 of the enemy's tanks, the Russians could produce 11, 12, 13, even 20 more of them, all of which would see more field time than a Tiger.
Companies are the same way.
Not to brag (because it was originally intended as half a lark), but compare my buddy's company to Asshole Consulting.
Asshole Consulting has the least moving parts possible. In part by it's nature and in part by intentional design as it evolved. There is a bare bones (some would dare say "craptastic") website. A simple e-mail server. A paypal account. A laptop. And one Grade A, professional asshole. 5 pieces of machinery, in total, that generate a tidy sum above beer money.
Compare that to my buddy's company. Three divisions. One subsidiary. About 30 employees. A score of company phones. Two score of company computers. Tracking software. Suppliers. Vendors. Production facilities. Their employees. Managers. Accountants. Phone operators. Delivery men. His operation has infinitely more moving parts which means things go wrong at his company infinitely more times.
Now, admittedly, he is a millionaire and I am not. But if you are a regular reader of Cappy, you know that I endorse entrepreneurship not so much as the path to riches (which is certainly nice), but primarily as the path to freedom. That your time is more important than money. And that if you live the life of a minimalist, then the amount of money you need to make as an entrepreneur is just that much less, making your goal of true freedom just that much closer and more attainable.
The problem comes in where the entrepreneurial idea you concoct may indeed be brilliant, may indeed make you millions, but if it sucks your time and life away, then it was all for naught. This is not to belittle the value of money and riches, nor to tisk tisk you if you make millions (more power to you), but to make you realize the value in not only evaluating which business ideas you should pursue, but how to streamline their operations when you set them up so as to have the least amount of moving parts possible.
Here there are a couple lessons I've learned either through my mistakes or watching the mistakes of others.
1. PEOPLE are the NUMBER ONE CAUSE OF ALL PROBLEMS. We're not talking just employees. We're not talking just supervisors. We are talking ALL PEOPLE involved with the business. Employees, supervisors, suppliers, vendors, lawyers, customers, ALL OF THEM, ALL POTENTIAL SOURCES OF PROBLEMS. This is why I only have one employee at Asshole Consulting and why I control the product process with an iron fist. Like the soup Nazi I DEMAND my employees follow instructions, do EXACTLY as I say, and get paid up front because not only does that limit the amount of problems that can go wrong, but it also lowers prices DRAMATICALLY providing better service to my customers (just think about how expensive therapists are when it comes to insurance, co-pays, billing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and bill collectors).
2. Run one business at a time. While my buddy runs technically one business, there are two separate divisions within the company necessitating twice the amount of managerial overhead. He also sponsors a sporting event annually which is yet just another unnecessary piece of machinery that can go wrong, and at BEST consumes his vital and limited time. Do not chase every little bunny rabbit that might make a good entrepreneurial venture. Focus on one at a time, and until you have that set on auto pilot freeing up additional time to pursue new ventures, do not pursue new ones.
3. Do not bring Tiger Tanks into your personal life. I know two people who got dogs.
Why?
Because they wanted to have dogs.
Never mind neither have jobs or are able to support themselves let alone the dogs. Never mind they're living at home and got into this mess by agreeing to take care of other people's dogs. They simply wanted the dog, and who can refuse a cute little doggie?
Well now, even with something as innocent and unassuming as a dog, look at how much of your freetime is consumed and your life complicated by by providing for a retarded-child-equivalent.
You have to feed the dog.
Walk the dog.
Take the dog to the vet.
Take it out to go potty.
Spend time with the dog.
And never mind the new logistical hurdles you face.
You have to get a dog sitter.
You can't go on planes.
You can't go into most restuarants.
You forever have to rent apartments that only accept dogs.
You just sank the equivalent of a 10 hour per week part time job for a dog.
And dogs are just an example. You need to look at every decision in your life and ask if it adds an unnecessary cog to the streamlined machine.
You want to get your MBA? You sure?
You want to buy a boat? You sure?
You want to start a restaurant? You sure?
You want to get a roommate who may or may not stiff you on rent? You sure?
You want to buy that fixer upper dream home? You sure?
You want to get involved with the local civics group, church group, or run your children around town for their 31 different flavors of sports? You sure?
Everything takes time, and not only does it take time, it may unintentionally become the single largest waste of your time in your life. It may ruin you, even driving you into bankruptcy. But while that is certainly not the most common outcome of blindly making your life more complicated than it has to be, most people unconsciously saddle themselves with at least 10 hours per week of unnecessary moving parts.
Be smarter than that.
Time is your most important (and only) resource you have on this planet. Before either blindly following the crowd, or starting some kind of business venture that will make money, but torpedo you life, evaluate and contemplate how much time that move is going to cost you, and how to design it so that it takes the least amount of time to run.
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