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>>Okay, but presumably a smart government would decide that all jobs involved in the production and transportation of foodstuffs are essential. I know my countr

by syshum 5y ago

>>Okay, but presumably a smart government would decide that all jobs involved in the production and transportation of foodstuffs are essential. I know my country's government did. That is the folly of this way of thinking, all jobs are interlinked, you can not just extract jobs from the market and not have an impact. The person that cooks breakfast for the truck driver that picks up the food from the warehouse that stored the food that came from the factory that made the food from ingredients from a farm field is just as "essential" as ever other person in the chain. As is the IT worker that works on a helpdesk for the credit card processor that service the restaurant that truck driver above stops at every morning As the manufacture of the monitor stand that the IT worker uses to hold up their monitor to enable them to service the Restaurant of the truck driver... and on and on we go down the chain.. Look up I, Pencil[1] for a better understanding of this Government just pulling out people they claim are "not essential" to food production or other essential things is foolish because all jobs are essential. Period. non-essential jobs do not exist, and any government claiming there is, and claiming they are smart enough to make that determination should never be trusted with anything. >I haven't seen any evidence that anyone tried to implement Central Planning The very nature of choosing who can work, who cant, what is jobs are essential, what jobs are not is Central planning [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYO3tOqDISE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYO3tOqDISE

EdwardDiego 5y ago
> The person that cooks breakfast for the truck driver ...the truck driver can make breakfast at home. > As is the IT worker that works on a helpdesk for the credit card processor that service the restaurant that truck driver above stops at every morning The truck driver probably shouldn't during a pandemic. > Government just pulling out people they claim are "not essential" Again, if you have actual evidence of this, I'll read it man, but otherwise I've got no time for your anarchocapitalist rants.
- abduhl 5y ago
  You're right of course, it's the lazy lower class that is causing the supply chain issues. If only the truck driver would make his own breakfast at 4AM so he can be at the yard by 4:30AM so that he can work 14 hours (because, as we've seen in the past week, the trucking industry isn't bursting with employees) and then be home by 7PM. Should he cook his own lunch too? Maybe he can wake up at 3:30AM for that. What about his dinner? Maybe he can wake up at 3AM. Can he read his kids bedtime stories? Maybe he can wake up at 2:30AM so that he has time at the end of the day. After all, he has been deemed essential.
  - EdwardDiego 5y ago
    > make his own breakfast at 4AM so he can be at the yard by 4:30AM So, what time of day was he previously stopping at a diner for breakfast? And how long did that catered breakfast take? Longer than a bowl of cereal and two bits of toast? > Should he cook his own lunch too? Who the hell cooks lunch? And if it takes you 30 minutes to make sandwiches and grab a piece of fruit, I feel for you. Kudos though, that was an amazing linked list of reductio ad absurdum fallacies. Have you considered going into media relations for a political party?

by syshum 5y ago

EdwardDiego 5y ago

> The person that cooks breakfast for the truck driver ...the truck driver can make breakfast at home. > As is the IT worker that works on a helpdesk for the credit card processor that service the restaurant that truck driver above stops at every morning The truck driver probably shouldn't during a pandemic. > Government just pulling out people they claim are "not essential" Again, if you have actual evidence of this, I'll read it man, but otherwise I've got no time for your anarchocapitalist rants.

abduhl 5y ago
You're right of course, it's the lazy lower class that is causing the supply chain issues. If only the truck driver would make his own breakfast at 4AM so he can be at the yard by 4:30AM so that he can work 14 hours (because, as we've seen in the past week, the trucking industry isn't bursting with employees) and then be home by 7PM. Should he cook his own lunch too? Maybe he can wake up at 3:30AM for that. What about his dinner? Maybe he can wake up at 3AM. Can he read his kids bedtime stories? Maybe he can wake up at 2:30AM so that he has time at the end of the day. After all, he has been deemed essential.
- EdwardDiego 5y ago
  > make his own breakfast at 4AM so he can be at the yard by 4:30AM So, what time of day was he previously stopping at a diner for breakfast? And how long did that catered breakfast take? Longer than a bowl of cereal and two bits of toast? > Should he cook his own lunch too? Who the hell cooks lunch? And if it takes you 30 minutes to make sandwiches and grab a piece of fruit, I feel for you. Kudos though, that was an amazing linked list of reductio ad absurdum fallacies. Have you considered going into media relations for a political party?