Rant for April

[Edvin1010]

First in reality the cashier is underpaid whatever value he gives, and as a contrast in his eyes there is no guarantee at all that you gave any value for your money in the first place. At 18:01 if the shop closes at 18:00, he MUST send off people, imagine the customer accidentally injures himself in the shop, or maybe he steals something, who is going to be blamed by the manager for letting him in outside business time?

Life is FULL of scenarios like that, there are 2 sides of every coins.

[usenetposts]

There are indeed, but on the other hand people are often very lazy, and use the fact that there are 2 sides to coins to give out less value than they get.

On another note, I'm delighted the audio for this has magically re-appeared.

[Edvin1010]

Now that's just an insulting assumption, how can you be possibly sure of people are often lazy? Are you the mind reader? Are you there watching them all day to see what they do? Are you there to see what they do at home in addition? Are you sure THEY receive the money for whatever value they give? For all you know, he can do give only half of the value you'd expect, but maybe for half of the money this value actually worth, so in this case you receive 2 times of the value, than he is paid for.

[usenetposts]

I'm not the mind reader, I'm the actions reader. I'm fairly sure on that basis that people are often lazy. I want them to receive value as well as give it, and the only way that society can work is if we all focus on the giving of value as much as on insisting on the receiving of value.

[usenetposts]

A person who works in a store may seem to have a less easy life, getting paid less than some other people for doing the same hours of work, but on the other hand, he didn't need a big training for this, but could start work after school. If he had ever put himself out he would probably be a manager by now, not just an assistant, unless he is at the start in which case he has all that ahead, and he also doesn't have to take much responsibility for his actions, unlike some.

[Edvin1010]

you have a wild imagination about real life my friend.

have you ever worked in a shop for longer term, like for 1-2 years?

[usenetposts]

Do I look like I have?

[Edvin1010]

Exactly my thoughts. you see, we should fight for the working class, as higher intelligence, ability to commitment and to be able to see things in a wider perspective comes with bigger responsibility towards others who are not so lucky to be so well endowed with these characteristics by mother nature. From my part I conclude this conversation that generally I agree with you, but I expect you to refrain from judging people for anything as everything has a reason and you may don't know what it is.

[usenetposts]

Judging people? Please name a single person I have judged. First name and surname, please.

[usenetposts]

Despite the popularity of this video, I appear to have upset some people with my vision of a value-giving society. The video has, for the first time - and I don't beat about the bush when I want to say something - apparently fallen foul of the censor!

[Ranger425]

Hi Professor. Is the feed on this video working ? I can't get it to play.I have tried on several computers. Cheers Patrick

[usenetposts]

Oddly enough, neither can I this morning. I expect they are doing something with the site and it'll sort itself out.

[stiv2slava]

Rant for April is still not working. I don't know why after 3 days.

[usenetposts]

Beats me. Only did what I do on all the other videos. Maybe I trod on someone's toes too much in it, I don't know.

[usenetposts]

It's back!

[usenetposts]

It's back!

[Yardana28]

Klassny, you make so much sense out of everything :)

[giaour61]

Though 0.33% of the Russian population may now wear a veneer of Protestantism, I still maintain that the Protestant work ethic is deeply alien to the Russian people. If there's such a thing as national psyche it must be revealed in the adages of the people - and in this case I can offer you 3 off the top of my head:

От работы не будешь богат, а будешь горбат.

Работа не волк, в лес не убежит.

От трудов праведных не наживёшь палат каменных.

PS

I'd like to ask you some questions by e-mail. May I?

[usenetposts]

go ahead. piorokrat "at" autograf "dot" pl.

[piscadil]

Your little rants are the most informative things I've ever had the privelage to hear. One can learn a great deal from you, Professor Huliganov.

[usenetposts]

Many thanks. Glad you like it.

[giaour61]

No Russian would ever extoll what essentially is the Protestant work ethic. That said, I agree with every word of your rant: the Protestant work ethic is the best of foundations on which a society could be built (take it from a Jew). I suspect you know well that in welfare states there is a steady erosion of work ethics. As to your Christian references, be careful: the ability to pass for a good Mohammedan is gradually becoming a must in England, isn't it? С волками жить - по-волчьи выть.

[usenetposts]

Don't forget there are plenty of Russian protestants too. The Baptist church is the third church, after Orthodox and Catholic, in Russia. The wikipedia article puts the main Baptist church membership in Russia at half a million. This is one in 300 people, but still an awful lot higher than in Poland 2000 Baptists over 36 million, or one in every 18 thousand! However, Poland has the lowest Islamic percentage population in Europe also, so that's a good reason to be living here, not England.