The Big Disconnect

It amazes me when someone has no clue about whats going on with the economy. Some of this will depend on your income. If your retired? Still in the work force? I recently ran into a woman and she was clueless about people's situations and even the economy. She had this idea that people were in these situations of having to work more than one to two jobs because they were living beyond their means.

This is the smug belief that people shouldn't try to better themselves. They should except a certain level of income based on the narrow minded belief of others. The reality is that most of these people were not living above their means. Now they are having to work more than two jobs just to maintain.
I don't know if it's an age thing with some of these people or a generation thing with this judging others? It does remind me of the bucket of crabs stories.

I don't know where this sick idea comes from to try to drag down others who want more? I'm not going to say its a human thing. I think its a sick thing, human not so much. If you have confidence in yourself. You aren't as inclined to step on other people's dreams. The dream crushers are usually toxic waste. This is one of the reasons that I keep people like this away from me. Some people have them in their family and dread visiting them.

One of the things about the economy is that effected every industry globally. No one that worked in these global industries was at fault. If anything there were a lot of casualties in the fall out. Some have recovered, many are still in recovery or survival mode. There is still distrust in the stock market and retirement accounts.

It's still interesting to see how everything will shake out in the long run. A lot of people feel that the people that were prosecuted were not punished enough. Even their families got of easily. Their assets were not seized to make restitution for the crimes they committed. Other countries are still just trying to survive as their economies are limping along.

Penny J (MN, USA)
Raven Hawke, Llc
www.ravenhawke.net
info@ravenhawke.net

Technology Friend or Foe?

I know technology has done a lot of good things. There are also equal arguments that it has done not so great things too. I do know that if you pay cash for things your not so likely to have identity theft. Is it inconvenient? Depends on the person. Some like to have real money on hand others like plastic.

I'm not a fan of having it shoved down every ones throat whether they like it or not. That screams control issues! With the added technology it does take less workers to do somethings. It also gives employers an excuse to outsource positions to save money. There are more cyber crimes with the new technology too.

Your constantly having to chase new technology to keep up in the job market and with the tools arena. The return on investment doesn't seem to add up for the individual. The winner seems to be the companies that produce the technology. I see technology being used more and more as an enslavement tool. I don't see it freeing up much time for free time. It seems that in a lot of ways we are returning to the 1920's and 30's; in the work mentality of working our employees like they're machines instead of human beings.

Instead of there being more progress in how we treat people. It seems like there is more and more disconnect from interaction. I see less relationship between parents and they're children. I see more brain dead parenting where the parents let their children run at will. Instead of teaching their children boundaries and respect. They let them roam like animals at will.

More people are tuned into computers and internet and less into talking to friend and family face to face. This makes it easier to tune out at will.

Penny J.
Raven Hawke, Llc (MN, USA)
www.ravenhawke.net
info@ravenhawke.net