Dried-Up Well

Finally accepted the reality of having to let it go after trying many times. I guess it's the times. Better move on.

Demutualization

Got a letter from our 401K provider stating their intent to demutualize. Now, my worries have reached a new high after realizing my position will probably shift from stable to high risk. My bad, what is happening here? Is this a meltdown? What will happen to those who are bound for retirement? Hope they manage it well.

Practice Website

Been spending a lot of time building a simple website . Managed to create a site devoted specifically to a small community (OFWs) scattered all over. Might spin it off to a real interactive site if it turns out positive.

NewOS, MenuetOS

Spent some time figuring out VESO 2.0 in run32.asm, thinking it can be ported to the NewOS code. Might take some time to figure it out though.

Labor, Capital & CEOs

Been looking for and collecting information on why the hell a lot of laborers are still getting pink slips. Will definitely figure it out soon enough. Think Karl Marx and Adam Smith might have some ideas behind this phenomenon.

Corporate libertarians maintain that the market turns unrestrained greed into socially optimal outcomes. Smith would be outraged by those who attribute this idea to him. He was talking about small farmers and artisans trying to get the best price for their products to provide for themselves and their families. That is self-interest, not greed. Greed is a high-paid corporate executive firing 10,000 employees and then rewarding himself with a multimillion-dollar bonus for having saved the company so much money. Greed is what the economic system being constructed by the corporate libertarians encourages and rewards.
--Korten

Shocked

Got shocked after stumbling into this cartoon on Arabnews.

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Hey mbp, that's an interesting link.