Put up the money to build the factory, work hard and pay for advertising to find customers for your product, try to hire competent people that will do the job they agreed to without wasting supplies or damaging equipment you paid for and take the risk of losing your shirt if business drops off, then you can have the big piece of the pie.

Show up, do a minor task then go home and never think about the business except to complain you didn’t get a bigger cut of the profits than what you agreed to be paid when you took the job and persuade some politician to pass a law taking the reason the owner built the company and give it to you because you think you deserve a four bedroom house with a pool, Carribean vacations and a brand new SUV on a minimum wage/minimum requirement job, then several things happen…

The company doesn’t expand or improve it’s equipment to make your job easier, it cuts as many jobs as it can, or the costs exceed what can be reasonably charged for the product and it just goes out of business when nobody can afford to buy anything you sell.

Unless you buy stock in the company to support it’s operation, take your pizza and be glad you got that because you didn’t contract for it when you applied for the job.

Meanwhile I spent last night soberly watching the Bluey Movie as a childless adults. Moms go too hard for me.

Good movie tho.

She’s lucky it wasn’t a sandwich, or a half eaten petrified apple, or a handfull of cigarette butts, or dog treats that used to be the soft chewy kind but the dog whined for anyway and happily crunched one up when it fell on the floor, or any of the other things I’ve found digging through closets to try and figure out where the smell was coming from. I never mentioned the various coins and bills stashed in pockets though, cleaning fee 😉

If I recall correctly, here in the Netherlands, we don’t have the pay if the difference is that small (nor do they, if it a small difference in their favor). It saves a bit of hassle.

I suppose it might be satisfying to retaliate by making tax-collectors lives harder, but ultimately that just costs more, which is then passed on to the taxpayers. And it’s not like they get paid on performance anyway, so whether they count a hundred pennies or do more worthwhile work, they get paid the same.

I have at least 4 such devices. And if I had won that Ebay auction for a “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind” Laserdisc, I would have bought one of those doorstops to play it.

We still have an 8-track player and tapes, now I’m tempted to dig it out.
The nice thing about cassettes is it keeps people from stealing your tunes 🙂

The dog was driving us crazy licking herself constantly until her coat was very literally soaked and dripping with slobber, turned out it was a burr right next to her skin that somehow missed getting brushed out for a week o.O