On Sun, 01 Sep 2013 21:04:31 -0500, Ignoramus27947
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On 2013-09-01, Gunner Asch wrote:
wrote:

Why do a business want to employ a "no longer economically useful
worker" for reduced hours?

It is a vexing issue that I have not figured out, except for a
determination to be ireplaceable by computers, for me and for my
kids.

You found a niche that you fit into. Those niches are getting to be
smaller and smaller in numbers.

Correct. Smaller and smaller in number, as time goes on. It is a slow
process, but inevitable.

Which is why so many of my clients have retired out of California,
taking a few machines with them to their new digs in Aridzona and
Idaho and making high dollar custom medical parts and gun parts
working in a small home shop on their acreage and sleeping well
every night..because when they sold out in California..they made
enough money to pay cash for everything when they moved and have
money in the bank.

I am not convinced that making custom gun parts is a good
business. Too many people wanting to be in that.

Ayup. Same with farmers, boot makers, doctors etc etc.

Making custom medical parts, may be indeed a winner for a while.

Once they get snugged into their niche...the others are second place
winners

I wish my niche hadnt started to fold...Im pretty good at what I do.

I spend nights worrying about this stuff and related issues.

There is no place to hide.

i
No..there certainly isnt. And its NOT going to get any better any
time soon. The Left has cut the foundation from under this nation and
the already tottering structure is about ready to collapse.

One hopes you have enough land to grow crops on..you may need it
before long.


"The socialist movement takes great pains to circulate frequently new labels for its ideally constructed state.
Each worn-out label is replaced by another which raises hopes of an ultimate solution of the insoluble basic
problem of Socialism, until it becomes obvious that nothing has been changed but the name.
The most recent slogan is "State Capitalism."[Fascism] It is not commonly realized that this covers nothing more
than what used to be called Planned Economy and State Socialism, and that State Capitalism, Planned Economy,
and State Socialism diverge only in non-essentials from the "classic" ideal of egalitarian Socialism. - Ludwig von Mises (1922)