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frdjohns wrote:
Wow. unbelievable.
Give a discount or don't. Then go home every single night to your safe, warm bed. Someone else will be keeping you safe at night...
Remove context much? I bet you love some Fox News too.
First of all, let's be realistic about something. While I appreciate the service of men and women in the military, just as I appreciate the service of men and women in the police force... nobody is keeping me safe any night, ever, in my nice, warm bed. There are weapons which will keep me safe if it comes to that, but unless there's a dude in uniform hiding under my car every night waiting for baddies to come get me in my home, they're not "keeping me safe in my bed". In fact, while it's not their fault, a lot of the issues we have with terrorism have to do with our government sticking their nose where it doesn't belong, trying to be the world police, training and arming forces to overthrow other forces, then pulling out and leaving them for things to worsen, rinse and repeat... There's a reason certain parts of the world despise us and want to do awful things to us, and it has a lot to do with those calling the shots for our military. Soooo perhaps we need less people out there 'keeping us safe' and more people improving our own country's infrastructure, I don't know, maybe building fiber networks and high-speed-rail etc?
Second, I have family in the military. And guess what, they chose what they do because they love the adrenaline rush, not because they want to tuck me in at night and make certain the bed bugs don't bite.
Spare me the extremes, thank you very much.
Personally, I think teachers deserve a discount more than military for putting up with everyone's kids all day every day and making pennies for it. And our future, all of our futures, literally depend on these little annoying stinkers. But I don't give them a discount either, because frankly I just don't think that discounting makes sense in this industry for a small business.
As I've said, for large businesses which are scalable and not severely time-limited in the amount of business they can accept, and for whom every incremental increase in customer does not require a significant time and financial investment, it can make a lot of sense. For little guys like me, not so much.
But hey, if it makes your peepee wiggle a little to do it, that's cool too. Just isn't for me.
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