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The Bastille; the desacralization of corporate power (via Carol Hardick)

On By southwerkIn business ethics

This post compares the storming of the Bastille and the eventual end of corporate hegemony. It’s an interesting comparison, and very imaginative. Please give it a read.

James Pilant

Best paragraph –

Corporations and their top tiers, including the stock market which serves them, have grown so huge and so powerful they don’t see the loss of one job as a tragedy, they don’t see the loss of millions of jobs as a tragedy, all they see is statistics. The planet is going to exist in perpetuated chaos until the corporations recognize that there are people behind the numbers. One day as the world is crashing around those on whose backs the corporations created their wealth, executives will look to the horizon and see that their Bastille is going to be stormed. They will be dethroned. -Not because capitalism doesn’t work, it does- but because the people are starving, and they’re starving at the expense of corporate greed. Does this sound similar to the era leading up to the French Revolution? Just like the kings and queens who faced the axe because of their greed and overreach, corporations and the politicians who supported them, will be in the same position and need to seek a peace treaty while they have the chance.

The Bastille was stormed because women had no bread to feed their families. The royalty was desacralized, dethroned and sentenced to death.  Five decades later Karl Marx wrote his manifesto on the plight of the working class. Ironically Marx did not work, but lived off the money of wealthy patrons.  Even when his child was dying as a result, he did not go out and search for work, but searched instead for more entitlements.  How did his manifesto … Read More

via Carol Hardick

Earn $30 or More an Hour with These Two-Year Degrees!

On By southwerkIn business ethics, Capitalism1 Comment

So says the headline in Yahoo “Hot Jobs.”

Thirty dollars an hour is the national average. Those wages are going to vary dramatically from place to place, so is availability. The article is true in the literal sense, in other words, not really.

Is it ethical to sell, sell, sell, until there is no final customer available and you’re screaming your ad slogans into the wind?

If someone were to make us a good decent legitimate offer in the job or education area, would we be able to find it? I mean, after the bright colors, the incredible salaries, the “you can do it at home” stuff, is there any legitimacy left? Can we trust anybody?

It’s the distance, you see, the lack of contact, humanity.

Look, if I walk up to you and tell you person to person, face to face, that there’s a job, you have all the skills of humankind developed over ten of thousands of years to decide if I’m telling you the truth or not. As humans we relate to one another.

The first step away from person to person was probably a sign, then a newspaper ad, then a magazine ad and then radio, and, well, you get the picture.

It is true that we have now the opportunity to buy millions of different things all over the world (and be stolen from, lied to, or manipulated from as well) but sometimes I would just like to talk to another person when doing business.