It's 9AM
What are you waiting for? She asked.
I wondered myself.
Proof of concept?
Permission from Above?
She was asking about something specific, which usually means money.
As in why aren’t you getting paid more?
I took it as being paid more would be proof of concept.
We are, after all, a capitalist society, and if people pay for goods (books) and services (supporting writers) then the concept works.
The same goes for selling Tee Shirts, or widgets or installing alarm systems.
If people like what you do, they’ll pay you for it.
Maybe.
Some people will pay for it.
Others will just… not and get mad if you ask them to.
It’s playing out in the PB Quorum Court too, not just across this platform and others.
The people in charge of running the county want stuff done… they just don’t want to pay for it.
And their internal bickering delays projects, which have to be adjusted because prices go up.
Roads, which could have been repaired a year ago, have been caught up in a power struggle between a power hungry judge who wants to rule the Quorum, and a gaggle of Justice of the Peace who oppose him.
They are so at odds they bring separate agenda’s to the meetings, then won’t vote on each other’s items.
So nothing gets done.
At the expense of the people.
And it seems like there is a simple solution for someone to just step in, step up and point it out.
Yet people do and nothing moves forward.
That tells me the proof of concept for the Quorum Court is broken.
Or perhaps it’s just the participants who are abusing the system as designed, so that everyone suffers.
Which is just human nature.
It’s like merging in traffic.
If everyone just did what they were supposed to do, then it would work.
More often than not, there are those who don’t think that the merging rule applies to them, so they speed all the way to the end of the lane, and merge at the last minute.
Forcing everyone to stop or slow down so they could get a few cars ahead in the line.
It’s not just driving, it’s in all things.
There are people who think the rules don’t apply to them, or that conventions aren’t applicable.
Part of the problem is we admire people who think outside the box and turn villains into heroes, because we love a great comeback story.
It’s part of the reason we root for them.
But like Tom Petty said, waiting for them to comeback, or waiting for stuff to get done in the city, or waiting for people to support a small business, is the hardest part.
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