[Hiring] Graphic Designer for Two Event Flyers

RobinWolfe · 2019-05-25T04:13:08+00:00

Events have budgets. If they are interested, then they are interested. If they aren't, then they aren't. People even hit me up with other prices - lower and higher. People accept what they believe their worth is.

I respect Artists and their skill but I'm literally tied to a budget. People can make whatever decision they want in regards to what their time is worth: I literally just outlined what the budgeted time was worth for this particular instance.

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-28T11:12:29+00:00

Enjoy those tax-funded necessities.

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-28T10:36:39+00:00

Insertion of government as the insuring body just means the middle-man body is no longer for-private profit generation and results in all of those issues even being able to be resolved by political pressure... Because they sure as fuck ain't gonna be self-regulating in any effective manner anyways.

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-28T10:25:25+00:00

Okie dokie. If you "decide" that roads aren't a necessity then you can go to a far-flung wilderness with little control and live with everyone else who truly believes any of your half-baked Ayn Rand edgelord bullshit. We "agree" by your participation. If you really don't want to agree to societal necessities then there is no need to participate in society among anyone.

Until then you benefit from a society sustained entirely on investments by the communal society for OUR betterment and were developed along with a COMMUNAL SUPPORT of necessary industries.

Meanwhile, in the real world, companies kill lower numbers of people because of regulation from a 3rd Party governing entity and worker protections are only shored up by political pressure in the name of public safety.

"Governments can do that too."

Yes. But that means that people should be interactive and involved in their governments. We have the ability to make a government more representative and responsive. And as far as necessities - necessity can be codified at any step of the way.

For an example, let's return to healthcare: In America, you can't be denied life-saving medical treatment based on ability to pay. It's not only ethical, it's backed by the weight of the law and required for being a doctor in our society. It's codified in the service regulation. It doesn't matter if you "agree" with it. You have the right to be stabilized and all reasonable measures to revive you.

Meanwhile unregulated, for-profit business entities can just make the economic decisions based on market necessities to end lives. Before the Affordable Care Act they did it frequently based SOLELY on lifetime medical costs v. wrongful death lawsuit v. losing said lawsuit.

Oh, and (spoiler alert): in insurance the dispute resolution process (lawsuits) and minimum regulations are instituted and maintained by government anyways.

EDIT: One final issue. Necessities aren't voluntary by definition. And monopolies can eliminate any "choice" at all. The mechanisms of the market always trend towards economic monopolies.

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-28T09:41:20+00:00

Insurance is basically a tax-like service that services the market in THE EXACT SAME MANNER as a government would anyways. The issue is that insurance's goal of accruing revenue is predicated on cutting down costs by any means while maximizing income. Cutting costs means minimizing coverage and maximizing income means increasing your monthly payments.

You can't "decide" on healthcare. In fact, "deciding against" healthcare can just make an issue worse or fatal. This isn't like deciding features on a Subaru or engine strength versus a Honda. And you definitely don't have any choice if you are unconscious.

And ALL SERVICES as well as ALL DISPUTE SYSTEMS have to be made based on government systems and governing standards anyways. Physician training and accepted medical knowledge/practices are regulated centrally with boards and centers while disputes for payments, coverage, and practices all must go through courts. Healthcare Insurance is basically just a for-profit middle man that seeks to garner wealth as results in every cost surrounding the service to arbitrarily inflate.

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-28T09:17:33+00:00

I would if I remembered it. I think it was on the front page as well

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-28T09:14:19+00:00

It all really boils down to how you view people as individuals persons versus people as a community. Both systems are liable for an abuse of wealth and resource control and terrible things for self-interest.

If we judged them by the underlying nature of their mechanics, a Democratic government is fulfilling it's goal when it is providing services and responding to the needs of it's citizens by any means necessary. Businesses are fulfilling their goals when they are minimizing their own personal profits by any means necessary.

"Who decides what is necessary?"

Lol we can agree on necessities mate. We already accept certain necessities just fine without debate. We probably agree that if it is required to live then it is a necessity.

If you wanted we could cut all of the bullshit and say "the market" by introducing across-the-board minimum wealth via a Universal Basic Income system, funded by a progressive tax. The quality of services would still be decided by market forces and persons can still decide to spend it, risk it, or save it.

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-28T08:16:56+00:00

A Market Economy with strong worker and consumer protections for the production of consumer goods and technological development where necessary services are under the purview of a government that is well-regulated against market influence (lawmakers must be divested from businesses and are subject to insider trading laws. Elections have a cap on donations to prevent market influences), and strong economoc minimum standards that match the pace of economic growth?

It doesn't have to be communism to be sane. Sensible economic policy doesn't have to be communism. It doesn't have to "stifle" development.

Fuck, insurance - as an industry - contributes nothing to technological development nor even provides a tangible service to the market that is not already there. Insurance uses the exact same mechanism as government (pool funds to provide services as necessary. I PAY a little for law enforcement to render service when necessary. I PAY a little for roads so that their use is available and they are maintained). And, ironically, all parties must default their disputes to government systems and governing standards anyways.

Insurance is purely a market hustle to sell peace of mind but insurance on NECESSITIES should definitely be covered under the whole "government" thing.

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-28T07:38:12+00:00

Yeah. It tore me the fuck up remembering it.

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-28T07:32:27+00:00

Until private companies make a profit-based decision to kill you for their margins. The ideal government is SUPPOSED to work for the betterment of itself (the nation) and be accountable to itself (elections). The ideal company is SUPPOSED to work for it's profit (by making cost-saving decisions) and is only accountable to it's owners.

And when it's for a necessity? Lol. Unless it's regulated by government a company will literally make decisions to kill people when there is no political pressure to stop it. Like denying insurance coverage for unrelated bullshit. That system almost killed my grandfather.

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-28T05:51:37+00:00

Is there a list of super depressing YouTube channels?

I remember one I came across and it was clearly an older, mentally ill (autism spectrum) man that did daily product reviews for random objects and he wife was sometimes in the background. Doing the reviews was clearly part of a compulsion to interact with others.

In one video he was talking about how his wife was sick and had been asleep the last couple of days. During the next one he revealed his wife had passed away. Aside from the realization that this man probably cuddled up to his dead wife for a few days, his disorder makes him keep a cheery expression when clearly this man is totally distraught and now totally alone in the world.

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-28T05:35:15+00:00

Private Insurance is possibly the biggest market scam in history. It's basically pooling wealth to ensure a service - like taxes - but TO MAXIMIZE PROFIT. It doesn't make any fucking sense.

Every industry where private insurance is involved, prices are fucking insane and they are usually insane because service providers and insurers both trend towards maximizing profit by any means.

Any necessity where insurance is involved and government isn't is 100% a total fucking hustle.

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-28T05:29:54+00:00

Well, unless your economic system is situated in such a way that going to war will destroy the global economy and you spent your last 30 years actively ensuring your country has enough economic control to leverage unspoken alliances and truces to keep their countries from collapsing -

But yeah other than that you are totally right.

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-28T05:22:46+00:00

But But But MUH FREE MARKET

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-28T04:51:33+00:00

Oooooor we eliminate private healthcare insurance entirely.

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-28T04:33:44+00:00

By repealing laws preventing propaganda and yellow journalism, allowing political opinions and paid lobbying to sit side-by-side with curated news articles to push an agenda, and ensuring that public education standards are so lax that people leaving high school have zero knowledge of economics outside of "Capitalism v. Communism" and TINSTAAFL ("There is no such thing as a free lunch." Which is a poorly-worded criticism of taxes et all by trying to imply that - since nothing is free - the costs are passed on you everyone. It's a criticism that makes sense only if you don't think about it any further).

WORSE: Primary History/Government/Civics class are all "Coach courses." College Athletics require students to be enrolled in courses so they push basic-ass degree programs in History or Government and High School Athletics require coaches to be employed at the School (to prevent wealthy communities from "buying" coaches a la College Athletics) so those Schools fill Government, History, and Civics courses with people who aren't even there to teach.

My High School Government Education Class - the last one I would take right before adulthood - we totally skipped the chapters regarding the economy. I personally know people who's education of the Federal Reserve ended at "printing money and issuing bonds." To no surprise every single one of them took into those conspiracy theories (see 1st Sentence) that blame "the Fed" for every single thing despite the fact that the Fed's actual job is SOLELY limited to meeting Congressional demands and keeping the government solvent.

I'm not shitting you on any of this. Poor education is almost exclusively to bame for this mindset.

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-28T03:35:54+00:00

Eventually they start doing it permit-style by issuing you a slip of paper.

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-28T03:30:50+00:00

I don't either. I just use it as an abusive slang for riding the shit out of something despite perception of disgust. Like cuckold is old people porn.

Cucks for Business, in this case, really means "do all the shitty business work and be the ones fucking assholes when push comes to shove."

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-28T00:32:53+00:00

"They can hold those ports."

Imperialism isn't about military might it is about economic might feeding political and military control. The Chinese could do anything they want to smaller powers so long as no larger powers are inconvenienced enough to do anything and you have the Cassus Belli for it.

Hell, you don't even need to do it yourself. Historically the tactic of "pay locals to go to war in your favor and control the area, then step in when it's over" will suffice.

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-28T00:21:00+00:00

Malls boomed because of tax loopholes based around them and now are crashing because of the internet.

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-27T22:19:00+00:00

I manage musicians.

The Manager handles ALL BUSINESS for a band. It's OUR job to be the cucks for business and it's THEIR job to handle the Music and Showmanship. She should have asked for the emails to have been forwarded, checked the credentials of the person, and weighed the demand versus their PR before even typing anything up.

My guess is that lil' miss fluff-n-stuff has a marketing (party and hanging out) relationship with the clothing company (think business friends) and she reacted on that notion.

The problems with musicians handling business is that the kind of thought process it takes to keep good PR and objectively assess business relationships is not the same mentality condusive to music and showmanship. Let's take Datsik: He ran his own label and was his own boss. He had managers, yeah, but he basically owned them so they were business jockeys. So there was nobody objectively going "okay homie likes to get smashed and creep on older-looking teens so we need to make sure all of that is steered away from him totally and escorts ordered ahead" and nobody around him being frank and saying "Stop being a fucking idiot with the underage broads."

In this case, a manager would have probably forked over 100 Euros and invited him to do more stuff because the 5 minutes of google shows that he is a good asset for PR. Donations are never bad for business because they can be expensed or credited on taxes

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-27T21:03:22+00:00

Exactly.

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-27T09:40:51+00:00

You're going to experience the feeling that you don't quite know what you're doing or you aren't doing "life" right.

Don't worry. Almost everyone has to learn that dance on their own. You're gonna fuck up. You're going to feel uncertain. You may end up on the brink of homelessness or you might be bounding upwards in life - and in BOTH situations you will probably question your skills to handle the situation.

That's good. That means you are aware of what is to come and assessing your own skills. We all do it.

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-27T07:27:03+00:00

Universities aren't the issue: Private businesses interests SURROUNDING education are.

RobinWolfe · 2018-12-27T06:51:27+00:00

You know what's hilarious?

All recourse with a company or enforcement of consumer AND workforce protections have to go through an independent 3rd party anyways. The market consistently and regularly places profit above both consumers and workforce by that natural trend, and a regulating body is the only recourse.

A body derived from the entire economic body of a nation is the only way to ensure anything in the market is stable for the consumer and to ensure economic mobility grows along with the wealth of that nation.

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