{"id":3535,"date":"2021-07-16T08:42:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T13:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=3535"},"modified":"2021-07-16T08:42:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T13:42:14","slug":"burning-hunk-of-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2021\/07\/16\/burning-hunk-of-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning Hunk Of Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is sort of a writing-a-day-early thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t feeling well last night, and decided to go ahead and try to take some of the copious leave I have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So.  What&#8217;s up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, my left-handed comment last week to Brian McWilliams get a lot more punctuation.  (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/757sean\/status\/1415312649508769805?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">Link<\/a> to long, very disjointed Twitter thread&#8230;which will probably not work a few months after I initially write this entry.  I periodically go back and delete all of my Tweets.  Not because I regret many of them, but because things can come back and be misconstrued out-of-context). The discussion, however, did affect even my way of thinking about things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Government does a couple of things well &#8212; breaking things, and killing people.  Everywhere else, private industry does a better job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you knew of someone who needed immediate help with a problem, would calling some bureaucratic agency, or starting a Go Fund Me be more effective?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The host of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peddlingfictionpodcast.com\" target=\"_blank\">Peddling Fiction Podcast<\/a> had a friend whose daughter was in the hospital with an unknown medical issue.  Johny put out a request to listeners like me, and we gave money to support child and mom as they dealt with whatever the problem was\/is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Complicating matters, there, is that John, and his friend live overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How long would it have taken to get things organized through government?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much longer, I&#8217;m certain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Would the money have gotten there with more taken off-the-top?  Of course.  That&#8217;s not a good thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People want to help.  Paying a thug with a gun and a badge doesn&#8217;t increase generously.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, back to the disagreement I was having with Brian, the way he was describing it is making the focus on the consumer when pitching Libertarianism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, that&#8217;s a pitch to a shrinking segment of the population.  But that segment of the population, historically, seemed enormous, and the educators coming from that segment, focus on those like them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><s>Think Globally<\/s>, Act Locally.  Things will work out better than if you&#8217;re worried about what others are doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe more tomorrow, but I should go do my daily stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is sort of a writing-a-day-early thing. I wasn&#8217;t feeling well last night, and decided to go ahead and try to take some of the copious leave I have. So. What&#8217;s up. Well, my left-handed comment last week to Brian McWilliams get a lot more punctuation. (Link to long, very disjointed Twitter thread&#8230;which will probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-3535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}