Gravel Is Lazy

People are needy. In lots of ways people are really needy. Whenever there is a market for a particular product or service, it implies a deficiency in that particular field. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. People buy cars because they have a need to get to other places. The need for transportation cites nothing wrong with a person per se, just a desire or need to move beyond the scope of one's feet or other means of travel. When you buy a pack of cigarettes, you buy out of desire. Nothing wrong with desire, it's human nature to desire things. But it states nothing about you lack of ability to produce cigarettes. When people buy most products, like food, clothing, etc, they purchase out of necessity for the item. It may be a deficiency in that person's ability to produce the said items, but not everyone can be a farmer. But that's just how capitalism works. Different groups are better at doing different things. And you specialize in one thing you are particularly good at, and the society as a whole benefits.

Now in the service industry, it's slightly different. Most aspects of the service industry, and the benefits provided to the patrons of these services imply a deficiency in the person themselves. If you decide you have to pay someone to serve you food, you may just be lazy, or perhaps handicapped. But ultimately, you go to McDonald's because you can't make youself food, or you don't want to. It's different for people that shop at a grocery store and cook at home. When you pay Home Depot to install your flooring, either you're too stupid to put it in yourself, don't have the time, or perhaps you're handicapped. Either way you have a personal shortcoming, to the point that you're willing to pay your hard-earned (or perhaps not) money to someone else to do it for you. When I was a kid, learned everything I know about computers myself. Through books, and trial-and-error, and just having the desire to know. These days you can go buy a computer without knowing what the hell the difference between RAM and ROM, and forever calling an Ethernet card the "internet thingy", or even not knowing how to setup your TCP/IP connection. But you can pay those folks at the store to install a new hard drive for you, fix your virus problems, and so on. It's a complete lack of care, immense laziness, and apathetic attitude that drives this system. The same goes for pretty much any other service. And business is booming. This leads me to the conclusion that society is in a breakdown mode where the inhabitants are simply unfit to live.

The rule of 80/20 states the 20% of the workers do 80% of the work. Think of an empty bucket, you put a couple of large rocks in it. It fills up most of the bucket, but there's still all that empty space left around the rocks, so you fill that up with gravel. The people that drive the economy of the service industry are the gravel. They are just filler around the bigger picture. Yet, by the numbers, there's only 100 pieces of stone in the bucket. Most people don't care where the volume is, they just want their bucket filled.

This is where I come in. I fill your bucket, you just come in and reap all the benefits of it. There's little that people care about how things get done, they just want things done. Mostly because they're lazy. For some people they think they're entitled to it. And for one reason or another, people think they have a right to treat folks in the service industry like shit. Gravel is lazy. Or perhaps it's handicapped.