The U.S. has clearly overstepped our bounds. We see ourselves as being right and anyone who wants to argue about it can talk to Sgt. Rock of Easy Company. “We’re peaceful people, but don’t provoke us by not accepting our standards.”
Not all people of the world want the same thing and not all Americans want the same thing. I had an excellent licensed real estate assistant at one point that I paid a salary plus a percentage of my commissions and 50% of everything that she listed and sold on her own.
After a year or so I began to note that if I dropped the salary and raised her commissions that she would be making considerably more money. She would also be assuming more risk. No commissions, no pay. I thought that I was doing the right thing by offering her what had already proven to be a better deal. She was horrified at the prospect. There were no guarantees. She declined the offer.
I would have jumped at the chance; but that didn’t make her wrong. She simply wanted a guarantee; I’m a risk taker.
America can’t assume that one size fits all and that we are the standard that the world should subscribe to. After all, if they do, they too will spiral hopelessly into debt while attempting to redefine the principals of physics.
Wake up America, the insane are running the asylum.
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