While corporations have never been perfect, many of us still remember a time when corporations valued their work force, and existed to produce products.
The Book “Makers and Takers” documents the transition that business took from being product oriented, to greed and profit oriented.
America became great because of its relentless focus on products, innovation, and fair business practices…
New corporate positions sprang into being that had nothing to do with actually producing or selling products. Like actual termites, they multiplied, and began to weaken the American management structure.
In the meantime, money was poured into paying management types, that contribute little to products or services.
Too often, the growth of termites results in the reduction of the real workforce, in order to pay for them…
And how much money do all these non-critical employees make? Boat loads!
And, as the termites grew, they cut into the pay of the actual skilled workforce.
And help companies bypass needed health and safety and legal regulations…
And, of course, the latest big money making gamble by large American businesses, is to replace much of their workforce with AI. Even though AI is largely unproven technology, with known “hallucinatory” issues.
But all of this is leading inevitably to America’s downfall…
When you combine a thirst for power, with a willingness to serve ethically compromised leaders, the results are never pretty.
For years, a few wealthy ideologues, have been working to leverage their fortunes to take over the workings of government, one Senator and Congressman at a time.
And, when political donors gift hundreds of thousands, or millions to a political candidate, they expect something in return…
This has resulted in dark money flowing into our political process, and corrupting the system
When combined with the dominance of Social Media by wealthy interests, the interests of regular citizens are being ignored.
Armed with an army of consultants and word smithers, to stay one step ahead of system reformers…
And while the public is entitled to be unhappy with politicians who use racist or sexist tropes in efforts to get elected, those ideas don’t come from nowhere…
They did this while cutting support for things that serve the public’s interest…
But, before we go further, let’s talk about ethical baselines. Because there are still moral people and organizations that believe in, and follow them.
Another famous case was when Joel Osteen was counseled to keep his church locked up after local flooding, to reduce their legal exposure….
Of course, we know that there are still corporate, political, and church leaders, who believe that they can have success, while continuing to honor legal and moral business practices.
And they need our support, when we pray…
When we shop….
When we post…
And, when we vote…
We have power over those who have rule over us, but we have to excerpt that power through the choices we have…
Or, we may end up with leaders making questionable choices that compromise our national honor and international reputation…
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