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The result is
today's financial crisis -- the worst since the Great Depression.
And it is gaining in severity apparently unabated by trillions of
newly-printed dollars and other ill-supported currencies along with
multiple interventions by nations and financial institutions across
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The early 1970s
brought federal legislation mandating that hiring and firing in the
workplace was to be done with only a cursory regard for skills, lack
of skills, personal traits and habits. Laws were created and
proclaimed in Washington by legislators in the US Congress. These
self-righteous, perhaps well-meaning, legislators mandated hiring
and firing guidelines with little regard for the quality of the
workplace, its finished products, or the abilities of workers to
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Skilled workers were
routinely displaced by those lesser-skilled individuals for racial
and gender reasons -- not skill-related reasons. Skilled workers
were routinely passed over for promotion because quotas had to be
satisfied. That required filling upper positions with minority and
gender-satisfying workers, rather than the most qualified workers. |
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Damage to the US workplace, its products
and services are not easily identified. This damage may be
experienced by considering the caliber of products -- from autos to
electronics -- and the quality of services -- from accounting to
sales -- provided by the US workplace today. Actual productivity of
the US workplace has been reduced by diluting efficient and capable
workers with less-adequate workers. The less-adequate workers
inevitably cause extra hiring of qualified workers. Often their
less-adequate outputs need to be covered by more-qualified workers
concerned for their department and company's survival.
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Over roughly the same four decades,
women were forcibly empowered by a movement with little personality,
but rather displaying rage and frustration. The so-called Women's
Movement was anything but a movement for women. It was a
movement for the few women who believed that they did not want to,
or could not fit into the traditional role of the feminine, pleasant
lady. Instead they wanted to be equal to men. |
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However on the way to becoming equal,
many lost their femininity, their differentiating clothing, and
their feminine stylishness. They became men -- the lower caliber of
men, that is. |
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Damage to the female population is deep
and ubiquitous. Many a woman is lost and confused. Should she act
and appear feminine? What is feminine? Should she work as a doctor,
a lawyer, a professional something? Should she appeal to her spouse
or provide the Viagra to do that task? Should she earn the family's
big money? Should she raise children? How does a woman today raise a
child -- male or female -- when she herself does not know how she
fits in society, the neighborhood, or her family? |
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Should she allow herself to be naturally
comfortable? Or should she fill some mandated societal role? It is
no wonder that many women are angry, frustrated, and tougher than
many men! NOTE: The men's side is yet another topic. |
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Damage to the financial system is easily
quantifiable. In some years it will have been counted, tallied, and
dissolved into nothingness. |
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Damage to the workplace may get forcibly
normalized during the coming Great Depression. Businesses will have
less freedom to hire extra people to cover for the mandated,
less-qualified workers. Businesses will necessarily perform or go
broke. Survival will play a larger role in hiring and firing than
legislators who have rarely, if ever worked for a genuine paycheck. |
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Damage to the female psyche,
self-confidence, and self-image is less quantifiable than are both
financial and workplace damages. Today's damaged women are
likely lost forever simply adjusting to the ways of imagined
requirements. These women may be observed while driving, walking,
shopping, in restaurants, and as they attempt to raise children,
interact with spouses, and just try to get along while somehow
effectively multitasking and oscillating themselves into oblivion. |
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The end of politeness
and pleasantry is at hand. How could we expect people who are
displaced upwardly or downwardly, socially, and culturally to be
polite and not be resentful, while being forced to accept less or
more than they deserve? People feel fairness and innately want to
earn their rightful places. |
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Oops... not all
people. Many people today are willing to take without having earned.
That is too bad for the workplace and women... and weak males
attempting to be men. |
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Usually those
too-willing takers are the less-worthy sort. |
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