Uncommon Sense with Greg Lane

With Covid-19 coming to a slow down in certain states and the warmer seasons upon us, recreation and enjoyment is sure to be on a lot of people's minds in the coming months. With that coming as well as the plethora of "nothing" we've been doing the past year, I wanted to think about when productive recreation can be and how we may go about achieving it. This includes vacations, weekends from work (hopefully not at Bernie's), and of course just times we have for ourselves.

Oftentimes we find ourselves caught wondering if our innate thoughts in response to observations are instincts of warning or toxic assumptions. The line of separation is logical reasoning: instincts are typically based on past experiences backed up by evidence, whereas assumptions are often cleared up with context. While too much second thinking may open you up to rationalizing behaviors you think at first blush as toxic, never offering up your thoughts to context will lead down a path of ignance (ignorance may be changed by choice of education, ignance is willing choice to never evolve).

Why is it that everyone has to somehow be a CEO in order to afford a decent living? We have politicians that are able to vote on their own salary increases but whenever minimum wage is debated they decides while we are left at their mercy. Don't buy the corporate excuses about how giving people enough pay to afford rent and food would "destroy" our economy. Me being paid $15 an hour to wash dishes didn't bankrupt the restaurant where I got my first job, so I'm sure the Sacklers, the Cargills, the Kochs, and the Waltons can afford the cut in profits.