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Yeah, but the PA voting system is rigged beyond belief. He'll lose that state for sure, but you can't take away any intel from PA on the mindset of the voters - only the mindset of the PA system.

I'm sure it'll be a boon to sales of AI programs. Gotta help corporations prepare for the coming massive workforce shortages as the depopulation continues.

There's an interesting case study. Interesting because while I'm sure your acquaintance is a decent guy, I have also spent a couple decades periodically being the guy to help clean up the technological shipwreck created by an IT salesman. So I'm a bit biased about them getting paid the amount they do (plus the perks) for the job they do. What about mortgage sales? The people who call up and get you to refinance? We haven't been getting those calls recently because their entire industry suffered an apocalypse a few years ago. But some of them were really decent people who did what they did very well. I actually refinanced twice with the same guy because he did such a great job of it. And he's probably out of work, or doing something else now, and that entire company is probably gone. I feel for him, but things are different, and things had to change. The market is merciless. If people aren't getting the maximum value for their dollar, they're not going to part with it easily. Lots of people want to change that calculus and bring the state to bear on the situation that brings them an advantage and "creates mercy" in the market. And in this case study, we have three sides: one, the business owner, who wants to bring the power of the state to bear on his employees and make the market less merciless to him. The second is the employee, who likewise wants the state to side with him, and make the market less merciless to his interest. And the third is the other sales situations where there has never been a state action on either side, allowing the market to act with zero mercy. Lots of contracts are unenforceable and there are arguments to be made to that effect here. If I was making the argument, I'd say that an employment arrangement requires pay to count as employment. If the pay isn't happening, it's not employment. If someone owes some action or inaction to someone else and isn't paid for it, then that's slavery. There has to be a way to put NCA's in place that compensate the employee for it. I agree with you that there will be lots of fallout from this. But I'm looking beyond the individuals who will be harmed in the short term and toward the bright future where there are a lot less salesmen in the world. Getting locked into a business model is the worst thing for all of us. Businesses either pivot and do something that works once the old ways are dead, and we all benefit from it collectively, or they get to force everyone to keep doing things in a way that allows them not to change. I know which way the market would have us go.

Well, to be somewhat fair... Trump's Presidency ended in 2019. 2020 began Trump's re-election campaign. And that's when the world lost its mind. Including his own administration. Trump is out there asking, "are you better off than you were 4 years ago?" The real question should be, "are you better off than you were 5 years ago?" On the whole, I'd probably give Trump a B- up until 2020. in 2020? F-!

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That was me at my last job, except for the "get fired" part. I quit. And then the CEO and VP's started calling me trying to get me to reconsider. Sorry - you had your chance to listen. (My problems ran deeper than the compensation - it was the woke board, the bureaucratic incentives, their covid response, and of course, the pay) But I do recognize the value of NCA's... This decision is likely unconstitutional. I know an insurance salesman that is sweating this. That's an industry that requires relatively low skills or knowledge to start, but requires good geographic networking. He's got NCA's in place that prohibits his employees from opening a business within 5 miles of his location after a year of them leaving. 5 miles isn't much, but if they leave, they may take some of his clients with them. This new dictate will dramatically change how he hires new people. The fallout is going to be huge if this is allowed to stand. I get the other side, too. NCA's are often abused by employers. But this is throwing the baby out with the bath water.

"Vaccines"? Are they? This incident happened so long ago that it has already crawled through the court system.

Five months ago I started my first new job since 2001. After 23 years I finally got a clue and realized despite what they had said in the past, they absolutely did not give a fuck about me or anyone else working for them. The place where I am now is marginally better, but if there's one hard-learned lesson I'm taking into this new job, it's that it's a job, not a career. I'm working diligently on updating certs and getting to the point where I can go anywhere. Because I know corporatism makes it impossible to keep up with inflation. At least this company is giving out 'bonuses' (which I found out were commonplace 7-8 years ago, then stopped, and now they're bringing them back) to help combat rising costs. But my last employer started doing this too: never giving raises, and using windfall money to keep everyone quiet about it. But you know what is guaranteed to get me a raise? A different job. Employers have to offer competitive wages to get new people in. I got nearly $10k extra base pay just moving jobs. If that's the way I can provide for my family, well, the fact that I'll be spending 1/4 to 1/2 of my time at that new job training only to move on is someone else's problem. Eventually the people whose problem that is will get to the point of realizing they're not giving out pay raises fast enough to accommodate inflation and that yearly bonuses do not suffice. And some INTJ in the company will send a message to management that sounds a little too much like "how come you ivy league assholes haven't figured this out yet and could you please stop giving us platitudes about market forces we really don't give a shit about and just figure out how to pay us", and get fired.

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So, if a contract is unenforceable if its permanent, its also unenforceable if it expires after 90 or 60 or 30 years or even 3 days. The duration of a contract is not relevant to its enforceability.

Failures of the Justice System and a Viable Solution By Doug Casey International Man April 25, 2024 International Man: What is the role of a justice system in a society, and what should the State have to do with it?

They're hammering hard on this "blacks=criminals" operation...

I don't think that's what they're saying. I think they're saying, "Stop laughing at how stupid we are!"

So? I can't talk about NDAs in a thread about NDAs while you're talking about clauses?

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Having an expiry at a specified time does not qualify as an exit clause, because at that point the contract is already fulfilled.

And Trump just helped Johnson ram a bill out of committee that sets up illegal alien recruitment offices in the middle east. People ought to ask themselves which side they're on, because everyone else looks at them and does the same.