Showing posts with label Delta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Delta. Show all posts
20130119
Most groups are Run by Betas
Overall, this article tersely describes the ideal aspects of human behavior which may be common to most people.
In a real life situation, the risk of stereotyping human behavior by rigidly categorizing them as alpha, beta, gamma or delta is that it obscures the other three aspects of behavior.
And when we actively ignore the fact that no one is exclusively this or that but most of us are actually the whole of alpha, beta, gamma and delta attributes.
Few women are actually alpha, because one beta will become alpha for a group of betas until another beta becomes dominant.
A true alpha, male or female, isolates from the group. he designates a beta to be second in command and temporarily alpha.
Also alphas use violence as a tool to maintain dominance, and sometimes teach a favored beta to be alpha.
However, even when trained, a beta will revert to beta when a dominant betas goes alpha, or a true alpha is present.
Also betas use nonviolent methods of social control. This helps distinguish betas from alphas.
Gammas never resort to violence, though they may be victims of violence by alphas.
I still insist that alphas tend to social isolate themselves from groups, since their dominating nature tends to render a group dysfunctional.
However, I believe that once in a while, deltas arise as people dare to be different, and resort to a combination of behaviors that reflect alpha, beta and gamma qualities of dominance, loyalty, submission and servitude, depending on the situation.
They see alpha dominance as a guide to maintain control over the group, and thus may use beta and gamma behaviors to fit in.
Privately a delta will adapt to betas, and facilitate their aloha qualities in group scenarios where a single alpha is absent.
As well, deltas will dominate gammas if need be but will motivate and nurture gammas, bringing out their nascent beta characteristics.
A delta is unafraid of competition, yet seeks to even the playing field since a hierarchy is often abused by dominant alphas.
Think of deltas as the democratic diplomats of society.
In a real life situation, the risk of stereotyping human behavior by rigidly categorizing them as alpha, beta, gamma or delta is that it obscures the other three aspects of behavior.
And when we actively ignore the fact that no one is exclusively this or that but most of us are actually the whole of alpha, beta, gamma and delta attributes.
Few women are actually alpha, because one beta will become alpha for a group of betas until another beta becomes dominant.
A true alpha, male or female, isolates from the group. he designates a beta to be second in command and temporarily alpha.
Also alphas use violence as a tool to maintain dominance, and sometimes teach a favored beta to be alpha.
However, even when trained, a beta will revert to beta when a dominant betas goes alpha, or a true alpha is present.
Also betas use nonviolent methods of social control. This helps distinguish betas from alphas.
Gammas never resort to violence, though they may be victims of violence by alphas.
I still insist that alphas tend to social isolate themselves from groups, since their dominating nature tends to render a group dysfunctional.
However, I believe that once in a while, deltas arise as people dare to be different, and resort to a combination of behaviors that reflect alpha, beta and gamma qualities of dominance, loyalty, submission and servitude, depending on the situation.
They see alpha dominance as a guide to maintain control over the group, and thus may use beta and gamma behaviors to fit in.
Privately a delta will adapt to betas, and facilitate their aloha qualities in group scenarios where a single alpha is absent.
As well, deltas will dominate gammas if need be but will motivate and nurture gammas, bringing out their nascent beta characteristics.
A delta is unafraid of competition, yet seeks to even the playing field since a hierarchy is often abused by dominant alphas.
Think of deltas as the democratic diplomats of society.
20120419
My Transit Fare Proposal
I sent the following fare proposal to Translink. When whoever reads and responds to e-mail replies, I'll add it as a comment. Anyway, here's the fare increase proposal:
For people who don't live in the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) or even Delta, Surrey & Langley, I suggest you Google "Translink" and do some research. The way Translink raises fares unjustly imposes a greater fare increase ridership in Delta, Surrey & Langley, who actually subsidize ridership north of the Fraser River. There are actually more riders in the GVRD who never cross a zone but only pay $2.50, but every time someone buses in from south of the Fraser River, they pay double before 6.30 PM weekdays. As well, for the 90 minutes that their ticket is good for, most people within the GVRD north of Fraser actually get to more places they want to than the few people who bus all the way out of Langley. It takes about a half hour to get to the Skytrain in Surrey from Langley, and about 45 minutes to downtown Vancouver. For most places in Vancouver proper, you're no more than a half hour from shopping and other amenities. This leaves the average person riding the bus with about 20 minutes of shopping & time to return home on that ticket!! Compare this to the 15 minutes & the fare home ($2.50) for the poor people travelling from Langley. This suggests that in about 10 years time, it'd serve the ridership south of Fraser to raise the time limit to 2 hours.
Results of email: the usual thanks, we're sticking to the fare prices. thanks for contributing.
I'm astounded because the current fares do not increase ridership. My rider ship went up because my disability allows me a yearly bus pass for $45. The planned fare hike is not going to make riding a bus as attractive as lowering it. Translink will need to do something to change our minds that their fare hike in the coming months actually to raise ridership.
Why can't Translink make the two zones north of Fraser all one zone at $3.75 & south of Fraser (Surrey, Delta & Langley) $2.25? Crossing the new two-zone boundary would be $1.50. After all, the majority of riders use the system north of the Fraser River & they should pay more because they get all the perks like Canada Line, bus stops with Next Bus times, and the Millennium Line. Eventually (in 5 years) the fares can go up to $4 North of Fraser and down to $2 south of Fraser with a $2 boundary fee, due to the fact that the population growth north of the Fraser River will eventually rise faster than all the municipalities South of Fraser River (Delta, Surrey, Langley). This is more reasonable a fare raise than what was currently proposed because, as I've said before, more people north of the Fraser River use the system than Delta, Surrey & Langley! Now that I've given you my proposed fare schedule, let your beancounters crunch the numbers & I bet it will help afford putting in faregates at Main Street Station and Metrotown Station as well as support the corporate welfare of $60K per transit council director!!
For people who don't live in the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) or even Delta, Surrey & Langley, I suggest you Google "Translink" and do some research. The way Translink raises fares unjustly imposes a greater fare increase ridership in Delta, Surrey & Langley, who actually subsidize ridership north of the Fraser River. There are actually more riders in the GVRD who never cross a zone but only pay $2.50, but every time someone buses in from south of the Fraser River, they pay double before 6.30 PM weekdays. As well, for the 90 minutes that their ticket is good for, most people within the GVRD north of Fraser actually get to more places they want to than the few people who bus all the way out of Langley. It takes about a half hour to get to the Skytrain in Surrey from Langley, and about 45 minutes to downtown Vancouver. For most places in Vancouver proper, you're no more than a half hour from shopping and other amenities. This leaves the average person riding the bus with about 20 minutes of shopping & time to return home on that ticket!! Compare this to the 15 minutes & the fare home ($2.50) for the poor people travelling from Langley. This suggests that in about 10 years time, it'd serve the ridership south of Fraser to raise the time limit to 2 hours.
Results of email: the usual thanks, we're sticking to the fare prices. thanks for contributing.
I'm astounded because the current fares do not increase ridership. My rider ship went up because my disability allows me a yearly bus pass for $45. The planned fare hike is not going to make riding a bus as attractive as lowering it. Translink will need to do something to change our minds that their fare hike in the coming months actually to raise ridership.
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