About Experience

I guess, while I have nothing against people making a living, where a living can be made (even if the living is made because people are dying), what I struggle with is profiteering. I have never been a fan of people making money at someone else’s expense. I have never sold something for more than I paid for it, particularly if I had had good use from it. You remember I mentioned I don’t own a house. I would struggle with the idea of ‘marking up’ something I had used, just because other people are. I understand that people want to upgrade, but that means they want more for where they are. Not because where they are has necessarily got any better than when they bought it. It’s just they need more money to upgrade. I couldn’t. So, I would be hopeless as a landowner. While I may criticise what people do to get money from others, sometimes there are those who just push the ‘edge of the envelope’ a little too much. I remember when the world famous ‘attention seeking’ David BeckhamBeckham makes so much money, that it probably didn’t seem strange to him. Sadly though, and this is the point, it was dreadful haircut. If I had cut his hair (I probably would have done just as good a job, or better, as I would have had pride in my work) I personally would have been embarrassed by the quality if it had been me. It was dreadful. Overcharged for poor quality. That same issue I raised. Quality is falling off, but people are accepting it. (yes, admittedly, he could kick a ball really well) got a hair cut that cost two thousand pounds (about four and a half thousand dollars at the time). But for him, two thousand pounds was possibly on par with me paying eighteen dollars for a haircut (which I stopped doing as I bought a trimmer for twenty six dollars) David

It’s time we stopped. I doubt we will. The rush to attain, to possess, has reached a disease of endemic proportion. People don’t want to wait for anything and all of this adds to the stresses people face daily. Many parents say to me they bought this or that, because their child wanted it. Think about the word. ‘Wanted’. Not, ‘needed’. I have previously touched on this several times. We have literally spoilt our current generation. We have given them, without them earning. We have taught them the price of things, but not the value. Mass production has lowered quality. Skills, have also been severely lowered as the knowledge, which takes time to learn, has been ignored or even more sadly, discarded. There was an old saying of the ‘blind leading the blind’. I have recently seen this, as senior, very experienced people, were dismissed from the workforce due to ‘budget cuts’. They take with them a wealth of knowledge, which has not been learnt by the young work force that remains. The new people are now being taught by the only ‘slightly’ more senior members, who do not possess a half of the knowledge that the dismissed people had. The quality of what they do falls. Remember knowledge is acquired over time. But, if we do not make time for that?

(Continued tomorrow)