tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post6997277125939807078..comments2024-03-25T15:17:04.488-07:00Comments on Captain Capitalism: The Pettiness of the LeftCaptain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-61021594783155892822021-05-21T04:22:17.344-07:002021-05-21T04:22:17.344-07:00I have read your article, it is very informative a...I have read your article, it is very informative and helpful for me. I'm also sharing article Everything you need to know about <a href="https://www.4shared.com/u/dp5Go0pU/erickaweber60" rel="nofollow"> Skindex </a><br />loda lasanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17135988391723031316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-89011595768681102762017-08-24T21:19:14.032-07:002017-08-24T21:19:14.032-07:00People don't care about the size of a house or...People don't care about the size of a house or the car model, what they do care about is the ease of paying for an average house and how long they will have to commute to their jobs or entertainment. The situation now around most of the western word is that it is very hard for the average person to buy their own house or apartment, much more difficult than to our parents. The other main concern is the location of said house, the middle class can't afford a house in the nice places. That's why people are jealous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-64899530890543185082017-08-08T16:44:18.891-07:002017-08-08T16:44:18.891-07:00To anonymous 4:29: So-what?To anonymous 4:29: So-what?James Grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-47056029008729714982017-08-08T11:21:03.963-07:002017-08-08T11:21:03.963-07:00A friend has a journal that was maintained by his ...A friend has a journal that was maintained by his grandfather, a country doctor in rural Virginia some number of years ago. He read the journal when it came down to him.<br /><br />We discussed it at some length. He said that the most amazing thing was the sheer number of people that died over the simplest things, up to and including an infection acquired from a small cut. And many of those that died were very young. There was just nothing that could be done about simple ailments that rapidly blossomed into fatal issues.<br /><br />I count my blessings every day. I am happy.waitingForTheStormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11472217053995335318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-27568338503121764342017-08-08T04:29:52.343-07:002017-08-08T04:29:52.343-07:00WALMART has not had a hyphen in it for 10 years. WALMART has not had a hyphen in it for 10 years. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-16482606974605478292017-08-07T11:50:40.100-07:002017-08-07T11:50:40.100-07:00Envy is an obsession of Europeans and was the bedr...Envy is an obsession of Europeans and was the bedrock ideology that led to communism, fascism, and Nazism including the Holocaust. (If the average Jew was perceived to be poor it would not have happened.) <br /><br />Unfortunately it can happen here.<br /><br />Notice the shift from concern about "the poor" to "inequality." <br /><br />It's a "mission" with no solution. Poverty cam in theory be eliminated. "Inequality" can never be eliminated, outside of prisons or North Korea. James Grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-71044314094550952122017-08-06T18:31:59.207-07:002017-08-06T18:31:59.207-07:00Speaking of boats, remember that asinine luxury ta...Speaking of boats, remember that asinine luxury tax Congress passed in the early 90's? It ended up employing thousands of blue collar people who built boats and other luxury items. The wealthy simply went elsewhere. This shows how out of touch leftist are to the real world.<br /><br />If you can't stand pbs, google 'us luxury tax boats'. <br /><br />http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/government_programs-jan-june96-budget_01-01/<br /><br /><br /><br />A Texannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-58024913349594911582017-08-06T06:18:00.894-07:002017-08-06T06:18:00.894-07:00I think the left's big talking point at the mo...I think the left's big talking point at the moment beyond simple class envy (the first actual commodity they talk about) is healthcare, not cars and phones.<br /><br />Plenty of lefty people lead relatively simple lives in the manner you speak of, it's a point of pride for many cause carbon footprint and such.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-57348561880807651772017-08-05T09:35:35.175-07:002017-08-05T09:35:35.175-07:00It's not having what you want, it's prizin...It's not having what you want, it's prizing what you have. [HT: Cheryl Crowe]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-73142441532394988872017-08-05T06:31:12.315-07:002017-08-05T06:31:12.315-07:00The only thing I would say about the "uber ri...The only thing I would say about the "uber rich" what have you is sick of corporate welfare(all welfare actually)and am sick of the bailing out of companies/banks due to this,end this madness of making private the profits but making public the losses,just end the bullshoit regs. ect. that stand in the way of the small person getting started,there are 1000's(more?) examples of how the system is rigged,level the playing field and get out of the way as folks get productive!<br /><br />On a side note,have driven a Ferrari and while great fun working on them too much of a pain in the ass!Give me a Pantera any day,Italian body with basic high performance running gear a shade tree mechanic like me can work on!Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-78661820159782520082017-08-05T06:19:11.648-07:002017-08-05T06:19:11.648-07:00If the rich would confine themselves to just being...If the rich would confine themselves to just being rich and flaunting their wealth in consumerist and lifestyle domains, I wouldn't have any problem with them at all. I don't care about their stuff.<br /><br />But that is not enough for them. They insist on involving themselves directly in other people's lives through politics. It is undeniable that all politics is force. And since all politics is force, they use force to loot me in innumerable ways, to force me to buy products, to create and control the systems which they use to threaten me, control me and further their looting and other despicable activities like war. If they were capable of leaving me alone, that would be one thing. But they are not.<br /><br /><i>When you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say, "Live and let live." But in this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give it a try, say "Live and let die."</i> <br /><br />All of that said, this is a old discussion which is worth having from time to time. Dissatisfaction is a fundamental human trait. If we were satisfied with the way things were, we wouldn't have built any of this stuff. So being alive and human, dissatisfaction leads to nearly constant unhappiness. <br /><br />How do I get what I want? I can make it for myself, or take it from someone who already has it.<br /><br />Eventually, if I am paying attention, I can see my own constant dissatisfaction as the real barrier to happiness, and I can learn to be happy with what I already have and the way things are. As it turns out, happiness is something you carry around with you every day, you just have to learn how to remember it's there.<br /><br />This would be easier of course if politicians, bought by rich people who can't be satisfied with anything ever, weren't constantly robbing me, threatening me, enslaving me.Swrichmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11405155092494964564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-10952722257654782292017-08-04T07:17:21.806-07:002017-08-04T07:17:21.806-07:00One difference between the filthy rich and the no...One difference between the filthy rich and the not is that the filthy rich don't have to work.<br />I am now retired and don't have to work and let me tell you it is fucking awesome.<br />I used to think my job provided my identity and satisfaction. Not anymore.<br />Of course my son doesn't work either and he thinks that's fucking awesome, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-60117348731401111012017-08-04T03:57:02.830-07:002017-08-04T03:57:02.830-07:00Excellent post Cappy - Most people have no knowled...Excellent post Cappy - Most people have no knowledge of history and are too stupid to realize how well off they are compared to even 50 years ago. I had an idea for another profitable venture you might start: Start a " Frugal Bachelors Blog" that discusses ways to save money. Posters could read about how to save money and ask for advice from perceived experts. Charge a small fee for access and rely on volume to generate income. <br /><br />Here are my two savings tips for the day: <br /><br />Buy a cheap but reliable watch instead of a pricey monstrosity. For the last 37 years I have worn a Timex watch. I get over 10 years from a watch, then buy another at Walmart for 40 or 50 bucks. My Timex Easy Reader is tough, easy to read, gives time, day, and date, and lights up by pressing a button. By contrast, a Fucking Rolex has to be cleaned and lubricated every few years to maintain the warranty. This operation costs about 200 bucks and has to be done by the dealer. <br /><br />I have used a prepaid Tracfone for 15 years now. I carry a simple flip phone and add time to the phone with access cards sold online and in every convenience store. Total phone cost about $240 per year. I get about 2 years out of a Tracfone flip phone, then buy another for 30 bucks. Tracfone customer service is non existant, since they outsourced it to an overseas call center. Most Tracfone problems can be fixed by going to their website. Avoid the no english " customer service" The even offer smart phones but the operating cost is higher. Why bother with prepaid? I have no contract and can change carriers today if they start messing up. <br />Faithless Cynicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-38698269848420419022017-08-03T11:54:22.452-07:002017-08-03T11:54:22.452-07:00I have to disagree Cappy, the material things that...I have to disagree Cappy, the material things that you list may be what the left is envious of on the surface, but in reality they envy the power of the rich to attract cute girls - essentially the ability to reproduce. The cell phones and large homes are largely the maintenance costs of maintaing the lifestyle of attractive mating partners. The left wrongly assumes the it is the car itself rather than the man that attracts young fertile women. Essentially, it is am exestential fear of being bred out of existence.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14746003473629064890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-3960006321341960422017-08-03T09:55:47.211-07:002017-08-03T09:55:47.211-07:00Don't forget that every top of the line car th...Don't forget that every top of the line car that drives by, every ostentatious house you pass, every yacht, manicured garden plot, etc., etc., owned by the rich put thousands of dollars in to the pockets of the working man.Jim in Alaskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11190211844026395931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-26241248656794574572017-08-03T03:10:00.508-07:002017-08-03T03:10:00.508-07:00You can also add a #7: Increased life expectancy....You can also add a #7: Increased life expectancy.<br /><br />Today we are living longer than ever before. In the last 50-60 years humans experienced the greatest rise in life expectancy than at any point in human existence. Thanks to better health care, technological advances and having enough to eat, the average person in the U.S. Can expect to live until they are 80. Of course the downside of longer living is that it puts a financial strain on Social Security and public pensions as well as having to plan for a longer retirement.<br /><br />One hundred years ago, the average person was lucky enough to live until they were 55-60 years old. Now that we are living longer, that means leftists can complain about the doctors and research scientists making too much money instead of thanking them for coming up with the drugs and life saving techniques that enable us to live longer.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09913514046087514944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-49884219388782017582017-08-03T00:08:11.654-07:002017-08-03T00:08:11.654-07:00"Much like petulant little 13 year old girls...."Much like petulant little 13 year old girls..."<br /><br />I was an excellent column, all of it worth reading, but really those eight words capture everything necessary. If you realize that Leftists are basically middle-school girls, then their behavior makes sense. The popular ones think everyone owes them everything, and the unpopular ones think everybody owes them everything too but are more bitter about it. <br /><br />No sane person would want to live in a society run by middle school girls. No sane person should let Leftists have any say in society either. <br /><br />Jack Amoknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-51970352511305954162017-08-02T19:51:37.176-07:002017-08-02T19:51:37.176-07:00I lived in the Twin Cities in the 70s and bought m...I lived in the Twin Cities in the 70s and bought my first house there. I remembered the joy I felt after moving into this little 2 BR bungalow in St. Louis Park, the front lawn and the back yard that I now had to mow, the leaves I had to rake in the fall, and of course, the tons of snow that I had to shovel in the winter (well, maybe not that), but it was the greatest moment of my life to date compared to the cramped apartment in which I grew up in NYC. <br /><br />And I remember going out to Wayzata to the "beach" on Lake Minnetonka and being grateful to be able to eat at Chouette (the fancy French restaurant there at the time). Life was, and still has been forty years later, good to me. sestamibihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03713681322114049960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-39117219213205400262017-08-02T18:49:13.817-07:002017-08-02T18:49:13.817-07:00All this only reflects commodities or stuff - noth...All this only reflects commodities or stuff - nothing about spirituality or compassion for another.<br />poor hard working marginalised people are disadvantaged to the status quo white race.<br />there is enough to share and less of class war.mefeinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09797385393335525450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-31061928018481871302017-08-02T16:27:09.162-07:002017-08-02T16:27:09.162-07:00intentionally or unintentionally, you just listed ...intentionally or unintentionally, you just listed the key to happiness. Happiness doesn't come easy for me so it is something I have to work on. <br /><br />Every morning as the car idles up, I list 5 good things in my life, no matter how small. Every evening I list 5 good things that happened during the day. It's usually just little stupid things. <br /><br />Some people just don't want to be happy, or have given up trying. <br /><br />The pursuit of happiness is right there in the founding documents. People have been struggling with this from the beginning of time. And notice that it does not say you will actually find happiness, just that you should be free to pursue it as you see fit.Gurnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13204496984827658043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-42055995079477621232017-08-02T16:18:52.533-07:002017-08-02T16:18:52.533-07:00"Socialism a Philosophy of Failure", Lau..."Socialism a Philosophy of Failure", Laughlin, J.L., Scribner's magazine, 1909<br /><br />"Throughout socialistic literature there is the well-known insistence upon the materialistic interpretation of history - a conception based upon a hunger for things of material enjoyment, and for more and more of them. Fundamentally, they have as much centered their aim on an increase in material possessions as the veriest Napoleon of finance in Wall Street. An existence in which the acquisition of more material wealth is of very large - if not of chief - importance is in the thoughts of both. The ends sought for by the socialists are not, in effect, different from those of the mass of non-socialists who are striving to acquire wealth in order to have ease and leisure for enjoyment. Agreeing in their aims, their differences - which seem to most persons to place them as wide apart as the poles - really consist in choosing different means of accomplishing their ends. The ordinary hustler for wealth, without or within the stock market, may have no definite moral restraint except the fear of the law (in fact, he may even contrive to escape the law), and he accepts existing institutions; but he plans to gain his end, if honest, by productive processes and trade; or, if dishonest, by a thousand ingenious ways of transferring to himself the wealth created by others. On the other hand, the socialist proposes to overturn industrial competition and the institution of private property in the hope - vaguely outlined and not economically analyzed - of transferring the use of wealth from those who have to those who have not." p613-614<br /><br /><br />http://www.archive.org/stream/scribnersmagazi25logagoog#page/n634/mode/2upJK Brownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-1327962394467431712017-08-02T16:09:07.173-07:002017-08-02T16:09:07.173-07:00What kind of phone last 3 years? Every phone I buy...What kind of phone last 3 years? Every phone I buy lasts 1 year if I'm lucky. And I have always bought cases that protect them.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14909333913630975511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-48759223023023557732017-08-02T10:50:42.532-07:002017-08-02T10:50:42.532-07:00Another point of irony is that some of the folks w...Another point of irony is that some of the folks who spend lots of money on the things mentioned in the article aren't actually rich, they're just "$30-thousand-aires." They bought all that expensive stuff with even more expensive loans and lines of credit.262http://steemit.com/@two6twonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-25785754356083124142017-08-02T08:00:53.326-07:002017-08-02T08:00:53.326-07:00Unfortunately, I think this is a built in feature ...Unfortunately, I think this is a built in feature for a majority of humans.<br /><br />I read about a study once (too lazy to look it up but feel free)...basically they asked the following question:<br /><br />Would you rather make $150,000 per year while your next door neighbor makes $200k per year?<br /><br />OR would you rather make $200k per year while your neighbor makes $400k per year<br /><br />Some large majority (I think it was around 80%) choose the first option!! Even though the second option increases YOUR OWN INCOME by 33% up to $200k. Most people couldn't stand to see their neighbor make twice as much. <br /><br />How fucked up is that??? People will forgo extrm money if someone else is making more. There is your explanation right there - some kind of intrinsic envy that a large portion of humanity possesses.Adminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09978859072720625239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-64007094499604113752017-08-02T07:44:06.540-07:002017-08-02T07:44:06.540-07:00One of the things that drives this jealousy is laz...One of the things that drives this jealousy is laziness. <br /><br />The truth is, most of the people who have these 'nicer' things, earned them. They worked harder and made more sacrifices. And the SJW mentality does not possess the discipline to live this way. And since they can't find a way to be happy with what they've got, they need to malign others and steal from them. <br /><br />30+ years ago I was fortunate enough to have a mentor who would occasionally ask what I wanted in life. I offered up the usual desire to be a millionaire crap. He'd say, "That's great! What would you do with the millions?" After hemming and hawing a bunch of times, he told me to make a list of all the things I wanted to do with the money. He looked at the list and said, "Looks like about $100,000 will cover your list. (It was 35 years ago.) You may want to take it easy and enjoy life."<br /><br />He was right. <br /><br />When you close your eyes at night, you are unable to see how many rooms your home has, nor what's parked in the garage. If you have peace, you have it all. MagicalPathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03268182299766598451noreply@blogger.com