"It's those that demand change that need to justify themselves."
This is basic common sense, and tradition. Maybe those who pimp systemd so aggressively, and assault the conservatives over their reluctance to change, need to read the Declaration of Independence. To help them out, here is a full text of it.
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:
Column 1
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton
Column 2
North Carolina:
William Hooper
Joseph Hewes
John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Arthur Middleton
Column 3
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
Maryland:
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton
Column 4
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Franklin
John Morton
George Clymer
James Smith
George Taylor
James Wilson
George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney
George Read
Thomas McKean
Column 5
New York:
William Floyd
Philip Livingston
Francis Lewis
Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton
John Witherspoon
Francis Hopkinson
John Hart
Abraham Clark
Column 6
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett
William Whipple
Massachusetts:
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins
William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman
Samuel Huntington
William Williams
Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire:
Matthew Thornton
Of course this "holy" text disregards the rights of Indians, so to speak, with whom some kind of better balance could have been established, and also the issue of slavery, which, the Crown could afford to ban, but it became an economic necessity of the United States. It was not until tobacco became a high profit market item to the Old World that the colonies had a somewhat secure economic standing, and it was not until cotton from the South, exported, or even processed at clothing factories in Boston, that the US became an economic powerhouse in the world. Even as late as 1933 cotton was the top export item of the US to the world, and even today it retains a significant market share. Picking cotton, unfortunately, is extremely labor intensive, and it may not have been profitable if fair wages had to be paid to slaves doing it. Which is why we have had affirmative action in place for decades, but it also creates problems of overpopulation without an external economic constraint present, as we try not to let anyone starve regardless of how they were born, but this welfare burden also drags the government debt into levels to where one simply has to state that it will never be repaid, and some kind of writeoff in the future will be the normal course of events, in the form of some kind of system crash or economic transition. The debt cannot be repaid because the cost of living in the US is too high compared to the rest of the world, and in that, before Obamacare sets mandatory health insurance loose on everybody, starting with babysteps of only 10% of your income, then that limit lifted when the government can no longer pay the rest, so before this new era of healthcare costs spiraling out of control, it has been housing that was the most insane cost of living expense, followed by transportation, then utilities, insurance and taxes, and clothing and food has been very low. The top cost should be food, the daily bread, followed by almost daily transportation, followed by clothing every few years, and followed by housing once in a lifetime. Yes, housing cost should be less than clothing cost. All the other bullshit of taxes and insurance and the like are arbitrary and superfluous when push comes to shove. The problem today is housing, the cost of property, by Da Man holding all property hostage, and extorting insane amounts for rent, or giving people a makebelieve dream that, if they only pay the tax deductible interest for 30-40 years on a mortgage, they will be able to pay it off, and avoid paying rent for those 30 years. Of course most people lose their job at least once in 30-40 years, at which point their mortgage resets back to zero, which is why it's called the American Dream, because you are dreaming, wishful thinking. Da Man hogs all property and keeps its prices high, and now he wants to extend the limits of property, to intellectual domains to never before seen extents, such as claiming intellectual property rights and suing people over breeds of dogs being copied, or genetic engineered seeds that produce only infertile seeds, controlling the food supply of the whole world through claiming intellectual property over it, all the while destroying the country. Da Man is destroying the country in a short sighted, overmilking it way, when he refuses to adapt to the new realities of global competition, reduced wages in the US from $25/hr union wages to $8/hr minimum wage if the person is lucky to get a minimum wage job and not have to sit on welfare, and all the while rent prices increasing. What Da Man needs to do is drop the rate of milking the cow, let the cow keep it's milk, let it live, come back to life, and flourish, and once it's healthy and back to normal again, he can restart the milking, at a sustainable rate, we don't really care, but when he's milking the cow to extents to where he will destroy the cow with it, we start complaining and bitching loud. We understand he needs to milk the cow, so he can live too, but not to the point of ignoring the welfare of the cow too, and destroying it with his shortsighted concern of only himself. We the People are the cow. Da Man needs to drop the cost of living, and in that the cost of housing, not add extra cost of mandatory insurances like Obamacare and increased taxes like increased payroll taxes, to where our cost of living is low enough to compete with the rest of the world. Pretty much everyone I know works their ass off to pay for their housing. Most of their income is spent on housing. How the hell did housing prices get so out of control? Everyone is guilty. All I know China is not going to stop underwriting the value of the dollar with a lot of sweat equity and providing products for cheap. We finally got them to agree to relax their pegging of currency against the dollar for value, so this way Da Man can create fluctuations and arbitrage, and milk income from that arbitrage out of the rest of the population's hard work. But China agreed nevertheless, but even so they are not gonna stop underwriting the dollar and sustaining it's value and stability as the world currency by providing a lot of value for very little dollars, irregardless of how hectic and insane our leaders run our country, irregardless of what economic mayhem and hunger games crash they are trying to create with their crazy financial policies, even when things have come to an absolute breaking point of making the dollar worthless, by starting up the printing presses and diluting its value by flooding the market with paper money of no intrinsic value, nor backing of it by gold or collected taxes, so even under this scenario China keeps faithfully providing value against the dollar, underwriting it with a lot of work, and they are a massive stabilizing force in the world for monetary stability through that. But we have to stoop to their level too of providing a lot of worth for very little money, competing with them on their terms, and underwriting our dollar with a lot of value created by us for very little dollars, if we want to stop our insanity of businesses shutting down and outsourcing to China, Mexico and Bangladesh, and everyone ending up on quasi-welfare unemployment, or just straight welfare in the process, while piling on the national debt to ever higher levels. Of course we'd be a competition to China in production, and they'd have to adapt by cutting back on their own production, but in a sense they would tolerate that if that creates a stable world. No nation in the world has undergone bloodbaths in history like the Chinese, and it all lives vividly in their memory, and they are still tired of it all thousands of years later, and there is nothing they prefer more than peace and stability, but it is possible to piss them off and incite them into aggression with sufficient harassment. But if we clean up our house and create stability in our economy, by creating Made in USA cheaper than Made in China, because we can drop our cost of living to their cost of living, and create stability at home, China might be tolerant of the extra competition and lost markets they get from that, even while they are struggling with their internal overpopulation issues, because of lack of enough monks, but if we create stability and peace in the world, they'd welcome that.
But dropping cost of living expenses, so we can start competing with the rest of the world on price - e.g. by providing shoes and everything else at $9/pair when they do it at $12/pair, because of the shipping cost, but we may simply be too snobby and unwilling to work so cheaply, because we are better than that - would also put a severe stop to inflation and create a deflation, to where our national debt becomes even harder to pay off, but as long as we could come up with a sustainable solution to Made in the USA, and not everybody sitting on unemployment, welfare, or minimum wage, and businesses constantly shutting down and moving to foreign countries, we could worry about the debt then. If I had more extra money I'd buy more things, and more expensive ones. But if my basic living costs of housing, transportation and utilities put a limit on my spending power, I cannot sustain other businesses than paying these basic costs to Da Man himself, who pretty much controls all housing, transportation cost, and utility costs. Food and clothing presently rank very low on the list of my expenses, when food, the daily bread, has traditionally been the single biggest preoccupation of all lifeforms, including people, and it's pretty much the only absolute necessity, other than of course water, or air, but those two are free for now, but water is losing that status. Especially while people are forced to pay rent, or live in jam packed neighborhoods, and the rainwater falling for free out of the sky like manna collection systems cannot be efficiently created, because Da Man charging the rent does not want you to modify his property, because he is also starting to derive great profit from making your tap water unpotable, and making you sick with it, to where you are forced to buy his overpriced bottled water that sometimes costs more than pop which has actual food value calories in it. And even pop is starting to be poisoned, to get people on the bandwagon of buying their plain drinking water, whose price then can be controlled to even higher exploitation limits than housing. And then comes the issue of air, which you need to consume every couple seconds, unlike water every couple hours, or food every couple days. When air is turned into private property, and you have to pay a fee to consume it, directly to Da Man, that's gonna be a hell of a world without much Liberty. You say something that pisses off Da Man? He'll instantly increase your air fees, and you will no longer get the discounts, like he can manipulate other people by giving everybody different rates of car insurance, based on his political views and what not. Maybe if they want to push a mandatory car insurance purchase on everybody, they should also set the mandatory rates charged, that people approve with voting, where you can look up your fee based on your driving record. But of course all that does is transposes the game from the variable fees to the variable driving records, where cops will hunt certain people but let others off, or even just plain falsify driving records. Da Man can do that. He can even fuck up your driving record and make you lose your license over unpaid child support. What do child support payments have to do with driving safely, or car insurance rates? It's all fucking bullshit anymore, and we're getting close to the tipping point where we have to roll out the guillotines, and recite the Declaration of Independence to Da Man, before we stack his head into a pyramid.
Back in the day businesses respected the market, the customer, and only produced as much as the customer could truly desire, while letting the customer get the most out of his previous investments, irregardless if by doing so, they limited their own profit. That should be normal, ethical business behavior where the customer is king. This is the kind of stuff China for instance is pissed about, when they wave their puppet neighbor, North Korea at us. These days we're slowly getting into territories where you have a perfectly working car that's only a couple years old, but to make profit the car company will remotely kill your car via a phoenix bit inside the chip in the car computer, because he no longer has the patience to wait it out before it rusts away from his purposefully designed in rusting away policy. That kind of attitude is bullshit, and we have all the right to bitch against businesses like Microsoft and much of the web or even car companies over forced upgrades and loss if existing investment property for the simple reason of satisfying their desire to generate profit. What kind of bullshit is that, I will no longer sell you Windows 7, because I feel like stuffing some new garbage we concocted that you don't want to buy down your throat. Microsoft is a monopoly, and they are so because they actively attacked and killed off other software businesses to become a monopoly, and they should be regulated by the chicken government. Over simple stuff like, by being a standard and having everyone write software for that standard, then using that power to put shit like code into Windows 3.1 that seeks to kill off DR DOS, who lost out on the operating system deal with IBM to become the standard DOS in the early days of the PC, by lawyers from IBM trying to get his wife sign a nondisclosure agreement when he was not home, and she refused to sign it in the absence of her husband, so they said too late, we don't have time to wait, and took the deal over to Bill Gates, who was a college dropout, unlike Gary Killdal, who actually had a phd in computer science, and who later got violently killed in a bar for wearing the wrong biker clothing, not knowing that Harley Davidson was a forbidden fashion item in a biker club. Ever since the only way Bill Gates makes real money is by harvesting other people's creativity. And he's the richest guy in the world, he is the epitome of the kind of crap we allow to go down in the Land of the free and the home of the brave, while the rest of us are trying to serve society by trying to give everyone a value for the money they give us, and we don't go after them to destroy that value, just so they are forced to come back and buy again from us. What kind of bullshit is that? Fuck Microsoft, fuck Da Man, and fuck businesses that act arrogantly like that. Bill Clinton should have chopped up Microsoft in 1999 into like 4 baby softs, Bill Gates leading one, Paul Allen the other, Steve Ballmer the other, each based on the size of their ownership in the company, maybe even Charles Simonyi sticking around, and of course they would have colluded and conspired with each other against the customer still, but at least we would have had a higher chance of at least one of them serving the customer and protecting his prior investments, and if one of the 4 stands their grounds and provides backward compatibility and protects the investments of the customer, the others could not force upgrades onto their customers in a monopolistic fashion. But Wall Street responded, Da Man said don't fuck with our monopolies because we control everything by the balls anyway, including all the bank mortgage interest that lands in our pocket, we hold a monopoly on banking and erase with fire and hell and disease anyone who is not one of us who wants to enter that sector. The Sherman Antitrust Law is violated all over the place in this country anymore, by monopolies controlling political life through their unfairly extorted money from the rest of the population. It's called a corrupt system of government, it rots the good life away from the bulk of the population, at the minor benefit of creating good life for the relatively few of those who do it.