Being Laid off is not so bad!

So here I am, feeling bummed out and discarded like a piece of trash. Things running through my head and not knowing where to start next. This very feeling I know a lot of Americans have had to deal with for the past 5 years or so. There is still a lot of terminations and businesses boarding up  around the country.  Seems unlikely the people in control of the policy, government/business leaders even seem to care. More or less business as usual and this debt/print money/have taxpayers bail out uber banks acting like criminals thing really works well.

I am sorry to be the barrier of bad news but it seems like its making small business and consumers very uneasy. This of course leads to lack of spending "keeping in mind that retail spending is the foundation of the US economy" In turn business and markets respond to the threat by letting people go.

I mean take my story for example, My job I held for 2 years, I was averaging my boss 10k every 60 days, some times more! So what happen? Well that may be a part of the bigger issue of the economy in general. Lets start with the R word... REGULATION. This one word I think makes business owners quiver every moment its uttered. Typically we only think states and local governments are the ones imposing things that could hold back business to the point of lay off... Regulation is of course a tool to monopolize. Read some history folks and see how it applies to what I am telling you. But what about the new found venues maturing on the internet? We should look at e-bay for example. This was my works choice for turning and burning. Last week after getting back from a much needed vacation, I stroll in  too find "poof" you are no longer needed. Wow, I never would have guessed what my manager said next... Ebay put limits on our account. I know what your thinking! Just limits right, whats the big deal? Well its more complex you see as it sinks down into a business owners head that now not only does he have to abide by state and local government regulation, but a pay per use venue that is charging him out the ass over 2000$ a week to sell is now in the business of regulation. Could someone please tell me what the definition of free markets might be. I am thinking this definition has been altered by someone recently. My bosses position is that if there is no room for me to grow, we are limited in expansion. He will be policed at every turn or punished via restriction if he does not abide. "he by the way has to do things his way" its impossible for him live with these harsh facts being a patriotic statesmen that he is. He now is cutting cost and laying off.  Kill two birds with one stone. Muti task and answer the messages and ship some things out once and a while. Consolation will help for a while. But as the store fronts are no longer needed. As all of Americas middle and spending class is squeezed with inflation and economic uncertainty.  He will then really have to consolidate.

Now I am not much of a complainer so I will not dissect this to the point of bitching... but the bottom line is that markets are moving, we are becoming mobile and shopping on our devices. There is a lot of money spent by " BIG CORPORATE BUSINESS" on realestate, ads, workers, best store fronts. The compation has gotten so fierce we see Walgreens across the street from CVS. You see what I mean! Now the repositioning starts to occur. Everyone in a mad dash to take there business to the internet. While trying to stay above all other competitors. The need for massive expensive store fronts is diminishing. Its going the way of the dinosaur. Name brands are taking a huge hit. Now instead of driving in your gas guzzler to the Coach store and paying full retail... well you can go online and buy that 900$ bag from a college grad for 230$!  Wow recycling and getting a deal! Coach and huge mega brands I believe understand this. I now have the notion that they will succeed in trying to stunt the growth of this type transaction. How? Well you make friends, and have a lot of leverage you can achieve those goals. You have heard of the lawsuits toward counterfeit and copy-write popping up as of late... ebay and other sites are dragged into each suit. That spells trouble for them & I seem to think that they are realizing getting cozy with each other will keep the pigs at bay and they can control the markets anyway. I think there is a whole new push to regulate the peer-to-peer sales in a big way. Take a look at the internet tax. As a smaller seller on ebay can you even think the notion of collecting tax in over 9600 jurisdictions?
 See ya later small internet business... just like my old job! Its a shame as it did not even start to gain momentum yet. But I guess just like you can keep printing money and everything is going to be alright, you can keep suppressing any kind of real economic recovery or transition to take place on the local and smaller levels. The plan I think we are not a part of.

I would love to hear your comments of the subject! Please leave them for me below. Esp if you have experience with ebay and there new found weapon DSR ratings and the limitations they induce.


So why would I have a heading clamming this lay off is not so bad?
Well its making me be more patriotic for one thing. I think many of us got so intertwined into keeping up with what large companies latest and greatest, The endless hours of commercials piped into our homes influencing every decision we make. More times than not our financial decisions are in jeopardy each time we tune in. Its become a cycle of consumption. When you are laid off or let go, you are strangely all of a sudden taken out of the tornado that our economy has become. Most of the time this is because you now are flat broke! You awaking to the notion that..."why am I going into debt, paying top dollar, buying cheap mass produced China goods and wears! Just because they have an American brand name?" Well they are not helping our America folks. Its hurting the environment and our economy. That is not sound planing for future generations. Now are you going to look for work and jumping back on the runaway train...or you are hearing the call of Americans before you. What might they be saying? Carve out your own path, Bring American manufacture back to the homeland maybe in your own garage, self sustain and self employ, stay out of debt and defend the constitution as it was written by these amazing people. I feel proud to be an American now more than any! So its not soooo bad!

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