RE: Odds and Ends — 12 July 2021
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I agree for the most part. My employer can ask a lot of me. I can decline or not. And if we really butt heads over some darned thing either of us can walk away. That's fair.
If a government is requiring an employer to ask something of employees though that's the same, as far as I'm concerned, as the government coercing the employees directly. It's just like getting a bank to do the gov's warrantless snooping via a KYC scheme (which is also the world we live in, for now.)
Compelling attendance at school, and then coercing a vaccination in order to receive that same compulsory service from the state -- that's serfdom with extra steps. Yet that too is the status quo.
On another note, Mattsurelee's map aligns with my own experience of Arizona. From living here I suspect shared animosity for California is all that keeps the western states from falling into civil strife over water rights and land use.
When I lived in Arkansas I did not sense any particular ill will toward Alabama. Maybe it's something only the true locals understand -- or a sports rivalry? I don't follow sports much.
I don’t know which is funnier on that map, that New Jerseyans (although not born there, I grew up in north Jersey) hate everyone or that Floridians hate Floridians.