Confirmation bias.
I'll give you something to consider. In order to make your plan of throwing more money at the problem work, you have to take something away. If there was no guaranteed retirement for teachers, i.e. defined benefit retirement plan, they would work harder to make coin. That's what happened in my industry. Prior to the big three airlines going bankrupt in the mid 2000s and shedding all of the defined benefit retirement plans, pilots were limited BY CONTRACT to only being paid for 75 hours per month. (I know that doesn't sound like much work, but we don't get paid until the airplane starts moving. The addage is that if you can see a pilot, he isn't getting paid.) Anyway, after the dust settled from the bankruptcies, the unions negotiated to work up to FAA limits (of which there are many different ones, but the main one here is 100 hours/month.) Initially there were a lot of guys that wouldn't work any more than they had to, but after tasting that larger paycheck, working harder became the norm rather than the exception. Southwest Airlines exploited that from their inception. Have you ever noticed how fast they taxi? Check it out sometime and compare it to others. It's all because of the way they are paid.
For the most part, we don't start getting paid until we push back from the gate. The preflight walkaround is not part of that compensation. Don't get me wrong, we are well compensated, but we are hourly employees and are not 'on the clock' until the red flashing light on the airplane is turned on right before we push back. There is a per diem component, but that is for meals.
I'd rather live in an era we haven't had. An era with people who have enough sense to banish hate, destructive exploitation of people and resources, that doesn't designate vast economies to ever-increasing means to kill people, and creates excuses to continue being vile t one another. We're even killing our planet but don't care enough to collectively do anything about it. Indeed, governments push policies to prevent doing anything about it. We, you and me, prefer different eras, obviously. Even the man you may or may not believe in said, "Except those days be shortened, no flesh will be saved." No flesh? Ummm. I take it to mean all living things. You see, humans , in general, are destructive and self-destructive by nature because we choose to be. Just look at the venom spouted in this forum for a microorganism of that very thing.
I'm not Jesus, but you know that, don't you. Besides that, you twister you, you know I said verbosely, humans won't get better because we choose to not do so. You know that too, don't you, twister? Your response is the kind of thing that validates what I said about this forum being a microorganism of why humans will remain destructive and self-destructive.
I'm not Jesus, but you know that, don't you. Besides that, you twister you, you know I said verbosely, humans won't get better because we choose to not do so. You know that too, don't you, twister? Your response is the kind of thing that validates what I said about this forum being a microorganism of why humans will remain destructive and self-destructive.You ole Chubby Checker, you.
No, but I accidentally discovered I could fly.
OK> That was the only thing? I get it, Jesus was wrong in what He said about divine interference is necessary before we completely self-destruct. OK, cool, you wanna tell Him that?
Well, you said you'll do what you can. Maybe my computering my doing what I can do. Uh, you do know you recently agreed with my gibberish, don't you? So my gibberish must be doing something right, on some level. BTW, you can meet Jesus via prayer if so inclined, just ask your priest or pastor.
Providing they can pay for it, which too many people can't. They're either burdened by debt, or just die. Practically all our improvements are motivated at nursing at the teats of common people's wallets. The Man, did also say that the LOVE of money is the root of ALL evil. Is that true or False? Only you and Clairol know for sure.
We are better at getting worse. But nevermind, tell Putin to push the button, arm North Korea and other known terrorist factions (he promised he would) and get the business over with. The prophecy is infallible. Like you, I once had some of the highest aspirations, and belief in humans jumping higher, grabbing a handful of stars, and saying, "We did it!" Then over time, especially in these rather recent times, I saw more clearly what our determined course of in repeating history was leading unto. I felt arm-twisted into realizing we are what wiser folks than I will ever be, said we are. And what was coming. I poohed-poohed this back in the early 1980s when I encountered a book talking about the information age and how it would be a harbinger pf the very things we are seeing today. And here we are. I also poo-poohed the first dooms day prepper small group speeches way back then as well. Now, grudgingly admit they were right. But you know, we ain't seen nothing yet. It's both here and coming. I've learned not to laugh at it anymore.
