Government

Can you run a government like a business?
Lets try to flesh this out a bit.

Whats the main objectives of business?
Profits.

How does the government make money?
Taxes

How do we increase the amount of money the government makes?
Either increase the population or increase the amount of money people make or increase taxes.
Notice the increase in taxes would most likely trigger a decrease in population, so we will consider a less complex relationship.

How do we increase the amount of money tax paying citizens make?
Create more opportunities for citizens. Small businesses should be easy to set up and maintain.
Personally, I'm against large businesses. I think small business models should be the backbone of any economy.
It encourages competition, innovation, creativity and opportunity for all.
Inefficiencies in the market will somehow be filled in naturally by other small businesses.
Ideally, every time there is a gap in the market, a small boutique with the necessary expertise will be created to fill it.

Long term is to have a highly regarded education system.
Teachers have to be professionals with certifications, retraining, paid well and not seem as menial labour.
Students are to be held accountable, academic research into training cognitive ability and develop skills will be given heavy grants and subsidies. Practical methods of their application will be encouraged.

What about industries that require large amounts of capital?
That is one of the shortcomings of the current plan. I open the forum for suggestions as to how to resolve this issue.

What about other issues that require the governments aid? eg. infrastructure, medical aid, etc.
Ideally the government will encourage more of these businesses to be run as regulated private enterprises, and that there will be a sufficient amount of them that for the government to set up their own, it would also have to be sufficiently competitive.

A decentralized government system when it comes to infrastructure may also be an idea worth exploring. State governments will have autonomy to decide if they want to built a road through their state, which parts it would go through, the requirement of its citizens and how wide the roads should be.
Certain portfolios would still be under the federal government but the state should have some degree of autonomy.

I would also like to see different states having different economic functions. Certain states would be the cultural hub, the agricultural hub, the financial, the educational, the environmental research, the heavy industry and so on so forth. A highly concentrated population in a single area is no good for everybody.

Kpop

Why do people love KPop?

It stems from the lack of self belief in one own's abilities.
KPop teaches you that through hard work, perseverance and mass manufacturing, you can become a superstar.
You, an ordinary joe, a nobody, can become a somebody. All you have to do is rigorously train, give up any semblance of a normal life, cut your face, stitch it back up, learn to dance, singing optional, work out and poof, you can make it anywhere.
Thats the appeal. Thats why the masses love it.
Its about self belief and our drilled dogma that hard work does pay off.

Then there's PSY. whose success is based on hard work, 3 albums prior to this, ridicule, perseverance through tough times, lack of commercial success, then 1 hot single and bam, he's the man who's brought 1/7th of the world together. unless you watched the damn thing more than once and are messing up my stats here.
Why him? What makes his brand so successful?
Its because through the course of his career, he stayed true to himself.
Sincerity. The missing ingredient. The secret ingredient. The special sauce that takes a dish from a dime a dozen, to 1 in a billion.

The differences between them and him is that he took it in his own direction.
This is what he truly wanted to be, not something forced upon him and which he took up as his own.
It was a clear sense of direction, conviction and quite basically, not giving too much of a damn what others were doing or keeping up with trends.

So really, it may be a silly video, overplayed, self depreciating and overall, catchy, it is sincerity and self belief that always ring true in the face of corporate manufacturing.
Its strange, but in a way, the lack of care of financial and corporate success may have been one of the overwhelming factors for it.
Bastard probably doesn't even own nor profits from the image rights of that famous caricature of him.
You know which one I'm talking about.

ASM

Here's how a Spider Man reboot would have been better, script wise.

- Peter works as an intern in OsCorp chemistry division

- Peter is shown to be a genius, using chemistry from father's notes to create web fluid but does not have web shooters yet just a glueey mess that dissolves in a couple of hours (because we all have always wanted to know what happens to those things after he's done with them)

- Gwen works in the biology division

- Parents disappear, stays with Ben and May maintain as status quo

- Gets bitten by arachnid while visiting Gwen, ability to stick to walls, strength, spider sense.

- Argument with Ben, leaves home, Ben gets shot maintain as status quo (is this a spoiler? no it isn't. it's common knowledge. Please)

- Peter goes after killer, puts on mask, surgical gloves, hoodie so doesn't get recognized, doesn't leave prints and can still stick to walls (because really, how does he do that with gloves?)

- Killer runs into OsCorp weapons division, bought there by Peter who doesn't really know what he's doing, escapes, enters experimental weapons design, gets stuck in a grey suit, busts out with the strength of a....Rhino.

- Peter uses same design to create Spider Man costume (because it doesn't make sense how sewing a costume comes so easily, is undetectable and does not need dry cleaning nor does it raise any suspicion) that allows him to use wall sticking ability, self repairs (suit only, not the body underneath) and is thin but strong enough to not break apart from throwing punches, kicking, etc.

(bullet proof option used by killer, so he couldn't add that in)

-- design for costume was sketched for fun while Peter was working at OsCorp after gaining spider powers

--computers are busted in the ensuing escape so knowledge of the suit is sketchy, making Rhino harder to replicate and to stop, also Spider Man removes all traces of creating costume as to not, you know, get caught

- Also takes experimental web shooters, probably made as a spy gadget as a miniature grappling gun. Modifies them to become web shooters. This one is still a bit fuzzy.

-- additional plot point, Peter claims to have his ID stolen by Spider Man to maintain his internship, footage of him bringing the killer into OsCorp all set up Spider Man as a bad guy and as if he was helping create the Rhino.

- Rhino robs bank, jewelry store, something common, goes back to lair and tries to take off suit but can't. Realizes the only people who can help him are in OsCorp so terrorizes building. Tanks come in (for cool effects of course), takes cannon fire like a boss and flips tank.

- Spider Man zips in loaded with web shooters, boss fight!

- Defeated when Spider Man ascertains the suits weakness from chemistry/physics/biology knowledge to remove the grey suit but paralyzes him due to the removal.

-- probably nitroglycerin, as freezing makes chemical reactions funny

- OsCorp move to recover the grey suit but Spider Man fully destroys it making Norman Osbourne an angry man, but giving him ideas on how to move forward with military applications.