allocation of resources, philosophy style....
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2023 10:46 am
to make a long story short, I quit as front end
manager in my store tonight because of the "allocation of
resources problem" which in simple terms that
we don't have enough resources to accomplish all
the jobs we are required to do... and so, the managers
above me, will take checkers and curtesy clerks and
put them on the sales floor as day stockers... and that
leaves me without the resources to do my job... if people
are stocking, they aren't checking...and they aren't
doing customer service and they aren't doing the many
aspects of the front end that is demanded by management...
and that is fine, but when the front end suffers because
it lacks resources to do the job, then I have multiple
managers yelling at me about the number of customers in line
or why aren't there any carts out front.... if I don't have the
resources to do the job, then you can't yell at me about
the front end not doing its job...
if you have X number of jobs to do and not enough
resources to do that job, the job will not get done properly....
and all of this is common sense...
and the same goes true for life and even America.....
we only have X amount of resources and if you pull
resources to do something else, then parts that need
to get done will not be done....
so, I you have idiots like desantis using resources to
fight trans/gay people, then other aspects of the state
goes undone.... if you devote resources to culture war
stuff, then the stuff like getting children educated or
feeding them gets undone...
the question of ''allocation of resources" comes down to
what is the priority here? the liberals/democrats bring about
bills about getting children food to eat and/or enough resources
to educate them.... the GOP/MAGA crowd spend its resources
on culture war crap...
if we don't tax the wealthy or large corporations,
that means we have less resources to feed the hungry
or send kids school.... if we put resources to one place,
then we don't have enough resources to fulfill our
obligations... if we allow the rich to hold billions of dollars,
as we allow Gates and Buffet and that buffoon Musk,
then we have less resources to fulfill our public obligations..
take social security for example.... if we give huge tax breaks
to billionaires, that is less money for social security....
the pie is finite... we can only cut it so much, and if we leave
the wealthy with large chunks of pie, that means there is less
pie for the rest of us.... and that is simple common sense....
what we prioritize in terms of resources, tells us, and the world,
our priority.. so, if you prioritize getting the wealthy tax cuts,
then that means less resources for others and that means for example
we will have a massive homeless problem..... children will go hungry..
every choice makes a priority of something... I choose happiness
and as far as choices go, that not a bad one, but and this is important
to note, that in making that choice, you are taking away resources
from something else to get that happiness... perhaps you will
have to buy a smaller home to get that happiness... or go without
a home at all.....
our choices are really about what we prioritize... and that
leaves out other possibilities that we might have chosen...
in a finite world, we can only achieve a finite number of
possibilities... which means some goals or dreams or hopes
go by the wayside..... to make one choice is to deny another choice...
if we prioritize culture war issues, then we are denying other
choices, other possibilities....what about the dramatic cost
increase in our food bills? choosing to use your energies on
fighting drag queens means you have little energy to no energy,
to engage with rising food costs... you can only fight so many
battles... and by choosing one particular battle, you neglect the
other choices... in our making "allocation of resources" choices,
by our very choice, we prioritize some things and abandon
other possibilities... we could in fact end homeliness or
poverty by making them a priority... but we choose not to...
we ''allocate resources'' to giving billionaires tax breaks or
by persecuting trans children.... and that is an choice of
what resources you have and what you do with those
resources...you do not have unlimited resources, thus
you must pick and choose to prioritize your values
with your choices of what to fund or defund as it were...
that is why a state or federal budget is a moral document...
it lays out the values and priorities of that particular state
or our collective choices as a country.... the biggest
part of any federal budget is devoted to military spending,
and not housing the homeless and that is a value choice that we
make with our spending choices, our budget...
if we are spending money on attacking trans or gay people,
then we aren't spending money on feeding people or housing
people... it is a choice we make....a moral/ethical choice we make....
if we spend money on unnecessary weapons instead of
feeding starving people, that is a moral choice. an ethical choice
about what our priorities are .......weapons over feeding people...
our "allocation of resources" is an ethical/moral decision we make,
and has real world consequences... choosing weapons over
people being hungry is a moral/ethical choice and in the real
world means people will go without food and some
will starve to death...because we made an ethical/moral
choice in our budget......
what are your ethical/moral choices?
and how do you meet that challenge in your own budget
or spending patterns... how you allocate your own resources becomes
a personal ethical/moral choice you make about who you are
as a person... just as our federal budgets are about the choices
we make as a people and who we are, as a people...so, what
choices are you going to make?
Kropotkin
manager in my store tonight because of the "allocation of
resources problem" which in simple terms that
we don't have enough resources to accomplish all
the jobs we are required to do... and so, the managers
above me, will take checkers and curtesy clerks and
put them on the sales floor as day stockers... and that
leaves me without the resources to do my job... if people
are stocking, they aren't checking...and they aren't
doing customer service and they aren't doing the many
aspects of the front end that is demanded by management...
and that is fine, but when the front end suffers because
it lacks resources to do the job, then I have multiple
managers yelling at me about the number of customers in line
or why aren't there any carts out front.... if I don't have the
resources to do the job, then you can't yell at me about
the front end not doing its job...
if you have X number of jobs to do and not enough
resources to do that job, the job will not get done properly....
and all of this is common sense...
and the same goes true for life and even America.....
we only have X amount of resources and if you pull
resources to do something else, then parts that need
to get done will not be done....
so, I you have idiots like desantis using resources to
fight trans/gay people, then other aspects of the state
goes undone.... if you devote resources to culture war
stuff, then the stuff like getting children educated or
feeding them gets undone...
the question of ''allocation of resources" comes down to
what is the priority here? the liberals/democrats bring about
bills about getting children food to eat and/or enough resources
to educate them.... the GOP/MAGA crowd spend its resources
on culture war crap...
if we don't tax the wealthy or large corporations,
that means we have less resources to feed the hungry
or send kids school.... if we put resources to one place,
then we don't have enough resources to fulfill our
obligations... if we allow the rich to hold billions of dollars,
as we allow Gates and Buffet and that buffoon Musk,
then we have less resources to fulfill our public obligations..
take social security for example.... if we give huge tax breaks
to billionaires, that is less money for social security....
the pie is finite... we can only cut it so much, and if we leave
the wealthy with large chunks of pie, that means there is less
pie for the rest of us.... and that is simple common sense....
what we prioritize in terms of resources, tells us, and the world,
our priority.. so, if you prioritize getting the wealthy tax cuts,
then that means less resources for others and that means for example
we will have a massive homeless problem..... children will go hungry..
every choice makes a priority of something... I choose happiness
and as far as choices go, that not a bad one, but and this is important
to note, that in making that choice, you are taking away resources
from something else to get that happiness... perhaps you will
have to buy a smaller home to get that happiness... or go without
a home at all.....
our choices are really about what we prioritize... and that
leaves out other possibilities that we might have chosen...
in a finite world, we can only achieve a finite number of
possibilities... which means some goals or dreams or hopes
go by the wayside..... to make one choice is to deny another choice...
if we prioritize culture war issues, then we are denying other
choices, other possibilities....what about the dramatic cost
increase in our food bills? choosing to use your energies on
fighting drag queens means you have little energy to no energy,
to engage with rising food costs... you can only fight so many
battles... and by choosing one particular battle, you neglect the
other choices... in our making "allocation of resources" choices,
by our very choice, we prioritize some things and abandon
other possibilities... we could in fact end homeliness or
poverty by making them a priority... but we choose not to...
we ''allocate resources'' to giving billionaires tax breaks or
by persecuting trans children.... and that is an choice of
what resources you have and what you do with those
resources...you do not have unlimited resources, thus
you must pick and choose to prioritize your values
with your choices of what to fund or defund as it were...
that is why a state or federal budget is a moral document...
it lays out the values and priorities of that particular state
or our collective choices as a country.... the biggest
part of any federal budget is devoted to military spending,
and not housing the homeless and that is a value choice that we
make with our spending choices, our budget...
if we are spending money on attacking trans or gay people,
then we aren't spending money on feeding people or housing
people... it is a choice we make....a moral/ethical choice we make....
if we spend money on unnecessary weapons instead of
feeding starving people, that is a moral choice. an ethical choice
about what our priorities are .......weapons over feeding people...
our "allocation of resources" is an ethical/moral decision we make,
and has real world consequences... choosing weapons over
people being hungry is a moral/ethical choice and in the real
world means people will go without food and some
will starve to death...because we made an ethical/moral
choice in our budget......
what are your ethical/moral choices?
and how do you meet that challenge in your own budget
or spending patterns... how you allocate your own resources becomes
a personal ethical/moral choice you make about who you are
as a person... just as our federal budgets are about the choices
we make as a people and who we are, as a people...so, what
choices are you going to make?
Kropotkin