One year ago today: June 12, 2020, they were wearing masks?
Five years ago today: June 12, 2016, I don’t buy nonsense.
Nine years ago today: June 12, 2012, coders, fork you.
Random years ago today: June 12, 2009, three people.
Utilizing any resource I can to make music easier, I regularly check if there is a youTube tutorial before learning a tune by ear. Here’s a picture of my favorite format. A video that shows the actual movement of the fingers on the frets (although some bozos manage to even screw that up), but also a tab. This tab is a schematic of the pattern, but does not convey the nuances or feeling. So just memorize the pattern and then go learn how it’s played. This is not the ideal format, for if you click pause to get something specific, the youTube play control blots out the bottom of the screen, usually exactly the spot that you want.
Today would be the hardest I’ve worked on a computer in years. It seems the Internet has legitimitized the comic book scams of the last century. On-line pitfalls are infinite and it seems to me we are headed for an economy where income right down to the lowliest skill set will be based on ownership rather than work performed. This is just dawning on me, so allow me to describe. Ownership to the extent one’s livelihood involves no physical or mental labor has always been the realm of those with inheritance. The rest of we schmeebs went to work for wages. And that just doesn’t pay so well once the big jobs got shipped overseas.
When the Reb describes passive income, it is not definitionally the same as when I studied accounting. In the past, income derived from investments still had its basis in wages or salary for the middle class, the segment of America that once had enough disposable income to invest. Not only have they been wiped out as a class, but the system is robbing those that did save by moving the goalposts, as in inheritance taxes and required minimum distributions. And I see a reaction to that by what’s changing in the foundation of business in our society.
This is consistent with the forecasts that by 2030, you will own nothing. They mean that in the sense of property, cars, houses, the things that grant you any smidgen of independence these days. The theory is that nine years from now, you will rent everything you need from a major corporation and as a result, lead a much simpler and safer life. At least until you are evicted. What they don't tell you is that rents will quadruple overnight. You see, what I’m about to say will hugely change the amount of say individual owners have in the future over the things they might still own.
Rather than taking years to accumulate a few thousand shares of this and that, computers have made it possible to own much tinier fractions of anything. Keeping track of it all is now a software function, which has the standard opportunities and vulnerabilities. I foresee a future where owning a millionth share of just about anything eventually becomes profitable. I doubt many of the affected people see it yet, but thanks to computers even the lowest paid of them can afford to buy a millionth of something. It works on a larger scale, remember how and why the Templeton Fund got underway. Are we about to see the digital equivalent?
If so, there is an opening I spot right away. The training videos I’m watching focuses on books that sell at least a copy a day. When you look at the rankings, most books don’t. I ask how many people out there have sunk the time and money into a worst-seller? And how broke are they? Broke enough to sell me the book for a fixed price, say their electric bill that’s overdue. This is sheer speculation, but I think I’ll see if anybody else is doing it. There is no way I’m the only one who’s considered this matter. Ah, here it is. It is a valid business of buying Master Resell Rights, Public Label Rights, and eBook resell rights. There are several websites. At this point, they are a distraction. Not to buy them, but to develop a course on how others can. Sneaky.
Poorest town in Nebraska (Halsey).
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I put in 15 hours, an epic for me. The snag with many on-line course that link to anywhere are shared with this blog. The other end moves or changes, in this case it is the statistics on the Amazon best-sellers list. We’ve got the savvy to work around it, but each search takes four times longer. There seems to be no other way to effectively learn the part of Amazon we would need. I’m not discouraged. The more difficult things are at first, the better off it becomes. Too bad you never can tell how long “at first” is going to drag on. For a treat, I’ll tell you a few things I’ve noticed.
The creators of my chosen course have the MicroSoft Mentality. That’s where you presume nobody is going to get much past the metaphorical Chapter 3, so the remainder after that can be sluffed off. (Yes, Ken, I know that is sloughed, but so what?) As said, they give instructions and links to parts of Amazon that are gone. They are bad at using jargon but not as bad as most. They don’t review or proofread their own material. Or they would know that the instructions they give in module two cannot possibly be done in the week they say.
One part that slays me is their use of spreadsheets. They’ve devised a set of charts that you fill in with your research results, and the cells change color. When your cells are all green, they say you have a winner. They want you to list forty topics in twelve categories that interest you. But as you enter the data, the cell formatting is inconsistent. Different fonts, weights, and justification after line five. Aha, that’s showing few people get that far. But, I carry on because a demanding beginning is the best way to weed out the competition. Or you may recall the accounting term for this effect, namely “Ease of Market Entry”. Stay away from easy startups, or you’ll spend your life being undercut by newcomers.
By now I’ve cracked their copyright and downloaded all their spreadsheets on to my secure system. So they can’t snoop at anything except the finished product. I ran their criteria backwards to see what one could expect from choices that turned all the cells green. I came up with crap like books on how not to be a racist written by black authors and a book on diet advice from a woman who weighed more than I do. I’m already of the opinion that most people skin over this part of the course. On the other hand, I can see directly how it will affect the outcome. I’m learning not just the ropes, but the reasons and motives.
ADDENDUM
Wait, I think there is more. An Arizona spokesperson may have tipped us off to something. He was talking about nearing the end of the hand count and beginning to check on duplicate ballots. He stated the ballots had arrived on 45 pallets. He said the duplicated were on two pallets. Let’s do some arithmetic. That’s 2.1 million ballots on 45 pallets, so each contains around 46-1/2 thousand. That’s potentially 90,000, but here’s where things went wrong with my calculation. They don’t mean duplicate ballots as in copies.
They have a system where by people who vote electronically, in the wrong color of ink, or in Braille have their info transferred to a ballot that can be read by the machines. That seems like a waste of time since the public is interested in ballots that have been faked or cloned. Dang, for a moment there, I thought I was on to something.
Who recalls my suspicion some entity was buying up all the houses in the time period I was looking for this place? It’s happening again. Somebody is buying houses fast enough to keep them priced out of reach. And sooner than you think, they are going to want their money back. It is not just housing. Zuckerberg just bought 6,000 acres of Hawaii. Gates is the largest farmland owner in American history. I first mentioned the scenario of house prices rising faster than I could save a 10% down payment back in my mid-20s.
I thought this was happening because I was born poor and did not have the resources to save fast enough. Now that the same thing is happening to an entire generation, maybe a few people will wake up. How can house prices rise during a pandemic enduced depression? They are buying entire subdivisions, the intention is to return to the 1920s when houses were so high, most people rented. This is a traditional way to rig the system against the working class.
The banks are in on it because they are not lending money to even qualified buyers. In some towns, 90% of sales are to a corporation. Um, you people with nothing to hide now have a new landlord. He’s a corporation, and you can’t skip out on the rent any more. They will hound you to the grave. It says here 11 million people with nothing to hide are behind on their mortgages and another 8 million on their rent. When is the rent moratorium over? This month isn’t it? By this summer, let’s have another real estate bubble and let the fun really begin. Rent could be the cartel of the 2030s.
I heard two good ones today. The Washington Compost and the New York Slime.
