Isles of Scion

Capitalism

While he was by no means a saint Henry Ford once said “”There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wage possible.” I’ve personally taken this line to heart as the ideal process for not merely Industrialists but for Capitalists.

We can listen to all the different phantoms that are blamed for the high cost of books. However there is only one major factor and that factor is greed. This country startles me because of the mindset its citizens maintain. I’m consistently reminded that “It’s only x hours at minimum wage.” Whenever I bring up the fact that something is priced at a level that should be criminal people seem to just shrug, buy it, and move on with life.

There is no reason that anyone should pay 97 dollars for a book roughly twice as big as the World of Warcraft Manual (I’m looking at you Psychology of Learning). How can I get the entire collections of a comic series in a wonderfully laid out package but when I order school books I feel like I have a crack addiction. Nay that would be a far cheaper avenue to take.

There are rules that all campuses should place upon textbook publishers. Because the current system doesn’t work. The books are not of the highest quality, they are nowhere near the lowest cost, and their employees are likely making a pittance above minimum wage.

There should be minimums on content updates (not mere location changes), limits on bundling practices, and likely a myriad of other things that I’m too aggravated to think of at this moment. It’s sad when you can’t trust any business to do the right thing anymore. Truly sad.

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Oppression for all your 2k parts.

There is something odd about faith that has always eluded me. I can think of at least two hundred things that I have not or would not like to do in my life because of personal feelings towards the activities. However I will likely have to do at least half of them if not all.

There are things we ‘have’ to do if we choose to be somewhere or to be something. I personally hate income tax, but I’ll be damned if the government will let me not pay it. I don’t like getting shots but had we not had the majority of Americans get vaccinated I think most of the people reading this now would instead be dead from an epidemic or crippled from Polio.

I don’t like the fact that my laptop can be confiscated when crossing the border but I’ll be arrested or kept out of the country if I told them “It’s just against what I believe in.” So why is it that suddenly we can decide to not do our jobs if we don’t feel like it?

If you become employed in the health system you have one duty, that duty is to protect and help your patients to the best of your abilities. I didn’t have the right to tell rude people to fudge off when I worked at Circuit City and people of faith don’t have the right to oppress their patients. I’ve always had a no tolerance policy against douchery, but unfortunately I had to break that rule while working retail.

Likewise people of faith must respect the bodies and beliefs of their patients/customers. If this cannot be upheld then the person is in the wrong profession. Otherwise we should just return to bloodletting and trephination if faith takes precedence over health.