{"id":62566,"date":"2017-03-30T05:29:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T10:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62566"},"modified":"2017-03-30T05:29:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T10:29:33","slug":"deep-blue-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62566","title":{"rendered":"Deep Blue World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A woman in Britain spoke an unpleasant truth: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4349910\/Feminism-BAD-two-thirds-woman-says-FAY-WELDON.html\"><span class=\"s2\">feminism has made women worse off. <\/span><\/a>\u00a0It\u2019s another example of Berg\u2019s Law: Liberal Policies Destroy Liberal Values.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">She concentrates on the economic effect of women entering the labor force but that\u2019s only the half of it. \u00a0Cutting everyone\u2019s wages is bad, of course, but looking around various government offices, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the worst thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The worst thing is productivity dropped by half, as well.\u00a0 More people doing less work for less money means work-produced-per-dollar remains constant which looks good on paper but is a massive disaster for management. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Focusing performance on time-on-task or units-per-hour is oppressive, patriarchal, and just plain no fun, especially with your co-worker said something that hurt your feelings so you simply can\u2019t bear to work right now; or your kid is sick so you can\u2019t come in today; or you\u2019ll get to my project as soon as you finish texting your friend, or you are certain you have medical reasons why you can\u2019t work even if the doctors are too stupid to figure it out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Throw in public sector unions and civil service rules making it impossible to fire slackers and you have a workforce that is hostile to the point of being unmanageable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Welcome to the Deep State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Orwell wasn&#8217;t wrong, and he wasn&#8217;t even all that far off time-wise. \u00a0He just got the degree a little off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: A woman in Britain spoke an unpleasant truth: feminism has made women worse off. \u00a0It\u2019s another example of Berg\u2019s Law: Liberal Policies Destroy Liberal Values. \u00a0She concentrates on the economic effect of women entering the labor force but that\u2019s only the half of it. \u00a0Cutting everyone\u2019s wages is bad, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-men-and-women","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62567,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62566\/revisions\/62567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}