Tuesday, December 09, 2014
Cottage people
The benefits of being 'independently poor'.
Two things happened yesterday.
(1) I finally got a handyman to replace a piece of metal siding that had popped off in the July-August windstorms. The metal siding encases an original layer of cedar siding, so it wasn't exposing anything structural, but it looked awful and invited a chain-reaction popoff. Used Angieslist to find and deal with the handyman. Very satisfactory experience, and now that the house is proper again, I feel more like cottage people than shack people.
(2) Learned that the publisher of my courseware has suddenly sold off the whole division including my stuff, as part of their JPMorgan hostile-takeover-bankruptcy process. The new publisher might or might not continue with this project. So I've just put in a year of 50-hour weeks, brought the project close to completion, and may never get paid for it.
Which event matters to me? (1) Pride of property. The publisher shit doesn't bother me a bit.
This is exactly why I set up my life this way, starting with a plan in 1985. I can take or leave idiot New York Goldmanite assholes. Independently poor. DECOUPLED.
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Oddly enough, I was thinking about writing a piece on the destruction of human capital by feral Goldmanism. I was going to extend recent thoughts about soil conservation into the notion of conserving human capital. When you run a business for pure share value, you have no regard for training, no regard for developing a labor force. Everything is outsourced, everything is temped, everyone is disposable.
Now the publisher has given me a nice personalized example.
(2) Learned that the publisher of my courseware has suddenly sold off the whole division including my stuff, as part of their JPMorgan hostile-takeover-bankruptcy process. The new publisher might or might not continue with this project. So I've just put in a year of 50-hour weeks, brought the project close to completion, and may never get paid for it.
Which event matters to me? (1) Pride of property. The publisher shit doesn't bother me a bit.
This is exactly why I set up my life this way, starting with a plan in 1985. I can take or leave idiot New York Goldmanite assholes. Independently poor. DECOUPLED.
= = = = =
Oddly enough, I was thinking about writing a piece on the destruction of human capital by feral Goldmanism. I was going to extend recent thoughts about soil conservation into the notion of conserving human capital. When you run a business for pure share value, you have no regard for training, no regard for developing a labor force. Everything is outsourced, everything is temped, everyone is disposable.
Now the publisher has given me a nice personalized example.Labels: Shack people - Cottage people, the broken circle, Zero Problems
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