“It’s Not My Job!”

Ultimately, government has to do more than just create high-paying jobs for government employees; they have to create some kind of tangible benefit to society, and not just fuel the high cost of living by inflating the value of “jobs” -- that erodes the value of every exchange and relation of that society. When society’s highest value is getting “something for nothing,” very few will get a fair exchange, when it is that fairness, that defines every society.

A fair exchange, is the feeling that one gets far more in the exchange than they give up, or they would never enter such an agreement, but would only do so under false pretenses and tricked into doing so. Often, it is the advertising, or “professional” manner, that leads one to believe they are getting the absolute best deal -- rather than that they are on the wrong end of something for nothing.

So it came as a shock out of the blue that the newspapers broke their silence and revealed for the first time the obvious truth that the proposed rail system solution is no solution at all but merely one of the innumerable pork barrel projects to create high-paying jobs on the promise they will do something they cannot possibly do.

Meanwhile, there is no government plan to do anything that really will solve the problem -- because all the money would be diverted to such a grand purpose -- in a time when all the economics and demographics indicate the urgency for real solutions. Public mass transit solutions were a wonderful idea for its time -- one hundred years ago! They were supplanted by personal transportation models -- and obviously, the solution is even better, more efficient personalized transportation devices, rather than leapfrogging back into the past of mass anything solutions.

The world is increasingly personalized and customized -- and no longer forcing everyone into a one-size fits all, no matter how badly and ill-suited. It doesn’t make more sense just to drive to the centralized transit station -- instead of to one’s actual desired destination. And that would be the logical step forward -- and not backward, farther away from our ultimate destination -- and then proclaiming, one has built a better mousetrap because it can now catch the family pet.

And then there is the admission that pretty much the entirety of the recent economic boom was caused by that which is unsustainable -- even if it could be, which is rampant real estate speculation. Eventually though, the music stops and there are no greater pockets to drive prices even higher -- and the “smart money” goes where they can get a real deal and live like a king, in a life of ease and contentment that is now possible to the average intelligent wage earner and consumer.

Although many insist that this place (Hawaii) is paradise, it seems that every conversation and discussion, is about everything that is wrong and needs to be solved, often with a simple, commonsense solution -- that cannot be discussed because it would immediately eliminate many high paying government jobs -- and so government, has become (in)vested in the problem rather than its elimination -- and hence, progress and evolution. And so these problems are repeated, perpetuated and transmitted as its heritage and culture -- of endless problems that create more high paying jobs for the problem-solvers -- as long as they promise never to solve the problem.

But the prosperity and success of any culture is not in how many high-paying jobs are created for government bureaucrats but the actual success they have at solving these problems so that every discussion in society is not about how bad things are and how they could easily be solved -- but cannot, as the job of the lawmakers and politicians to impede and prevent.