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where each party feels they have come out better because of it. If there is force or fraud, it ceases to be a free market; a coerced market is not capitalism. All other systems of economics support forced exchanges to one degree or another. The other day, I saw a meme which nicely summarized the difference between voluntary and forced exchanges: When is sex NOT rape? When it is consensual. When is a job NOT slavery? When it is consensual. When is a transaction NOT robbery? When it is consensual. If an exchange (sale, purchase, trade, swap, share, contribution, donation, gift, etc.) is not consensual or voluntary - then it is forced. If you are not willingly parting with your time, effort, property, or wealth - whatever the circumstances may be - then it is not voluntary, and hence not capitalism. Capitalism is consensual; and it is voluntary. If there is ANY force involved, then it is NOT capitalism. Simple. So, the next time you hear someone use the term "capitalism," ask yourself whether or not the exchange and/or the eco- nomic system they are describing or referring to includes or involves force. Since this is generally a column on motivation, I'll conclude with this ques- tion: How would you prefer to be moti- vated: by force . . . or by the freedom of choice? Robert Robert is an author, humorist, and innovation consultant. He works with companies that want to be more competitive and with people who want to think like innovators. For more information on Robert, visit ww.jumpstartyourmeeting.com or contact him via e-mail to michele@ worldwidedrillingresource.com Wilson cont’d from page 33. TWWA’s Annual Meeting & Trade Show March 16 - 17, 2018 The Park Vista Hotel Gatlinburg, TN For more information info@ tnwaterwellassociation.org (865) 761-4363 Friday 7 - 8 am Continental Breakfast 7 am - 1 pm Registration 7 am Vendors Set-Up 8 - 10 am Technical Sessions 10 am - 2 pm Trade Show noon - 1:30 pm Lunch with Vendors 2 - 4:15 pm Technical Sessions 3:30 pm Auction Sign-Up 5:30 - 7:30 pm Dinner, Auction, and 2017 Honor Award Saturday 7 - 8 am Continental Breakfast 7 - 9 am Registration 7:30 - 11:45 am Technical Sessions 10:30 am Ladies Auxiliary 11:45 am - 12:15 pm TWWA Business Meeting noon - 1:15 pm Lunch 1:15 - 2:15 pm TWWA Board Meeting *subject to change MacGyver’s Way . . . Do you have a better way? Are you still having problems finding workers/employees? I start with this question first; (Due to the fact just finding an employee who is not on drugs, has a drivers license, wants to work, will work hard, is worth their weight in salt, has no criminal record, will show up on Monday when they have been paid Friday, etc. is a challenge.) Are you able to find and keep good help? Now let’s ask the BIG question: Do those folks have experience doing the job they are applying for? This is a revisit to an article which was in the April 2016 issue of WWDR [page 8]. I am starting up a new company and am looking for employees who actually know something, but the big problem is they are either in trouble with the law in some way, or they don’t make the “two-week cut”. From my perspective and experience, the “two-week cut” is what I have come to learn to be the amount of time it takes to find out if the new person is willing to actually work, or just wanting a paycheck. If you hire someone and they make the “back- ground check”, they are on to “Are they going to return the second day?” Then we move to the “They got their first paycheck, are they going to lay out on Monday because they partied all weekend and can’t make it to work, or they only needed a couple hundred to get them by?” I was talking to someone who said they quit doing drug testing because there isn’t anyone “clean” enough to pass it. Something my grandparents and parents always said, which referred back to the days of buying and selling, and even trading people (all colors, races, sexes, and nationalities). The work was worth five pounds of salt, and the worker was worth 100 pounds of salt. Salt was like money back in the day. So if you hire a person who is worth five pounds of salt a day, then this is what you should expect to receive in work; but if you pay 100 pounds worth of salt, and you only get five pounds in return, it looks to me like you are losing 95 pounds a day. So I ask, if you have a good (and I mean a GOOD) hiring story, please e-mail it to wwdr@worldwidedrillingresource.com to be shared with readers WorldWide . On the other hand, if you are having similar problems, please chime in. Submitted by Teddy Bear Timber Corporation 40 FEBRUARY 2018 WorldWide Drilling Resource ®