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Kickle
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Corporations
#14399454 - 05/04/11 11:20 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Is it not strange that the majority of employees at any given corporation do not like the corporation? Yet despite this, people bend over backwards to ensure that a corporation survives? Whether it be by giving good customer service, or selling insurance plans on electronics and furniture, or making sure that tasks are completed in a timely manner. Why is it that even when we hate our employer and what they stand for, we in general refuse to be a part of their failure? What is happening psychologically that keeps us invested in the success of a corporation?
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Re: Corporations [Re: Kickle] 1
#14399554 - 05/04/11 11:46 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Seems pretty obvious to me that if your employer fails, you lose your livelihood. No matter how much you may hate your employer, his fate is ultimately yours.
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Re: Corporations [Re: Diploid]
#14399646 - 05/04/11 12:08 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I dislike my employer but I do my job and what I can at work because I, like most people, need money. What I don't understand is the people that complain about working and their employer in general, usually blow their whole paycheck and ultimately are more reliant on the corporation. If you don't like to work for someone else, wouldn't it make more sense to keep money in order to be more self-sustainable?
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Expectations of entitlement and fiscal irresponsibility often go hand in hand.
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Kickle
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Re: Corporations [Re: Diploid]
#14399681 - 05/04/11 12:15 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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It just seems strange to me that people are complacent enough with a total imbalance of power and that a system that lets someone with money determine their fate is totally OK and in fact that we will do just about anything to support that system and the power of those at the top.
My mind screams: This is broken. And I don't think that if those few at the top are allowed to fall I will lose my livelihood. My livelihood depends on the workers providing the goods, not the top dogs who tell me how much those goods should cost and how much I should have to work to get those goods, while they skim the largest portions of the money off for themselves.
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Re: Corporations [Re: Kickle]
#14399746 - 05/04/11 12:28 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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True if the top dogs fall you might not lose your livelihood, but they're the ones who have the capital and experience to keep the corporations running and turning a profit. All the people at the top care about is the profit margin.
As you pointed out, the system is broken. But why would the top dogs do anything to jeopardize their livelihood? It starts with the people who the system isn't working for. Consumers need to understand that they too help shape prices; without a demand for a product, price can't rise in order for supply and demand to meet. I kinda think the normal everyday people are so alienated and separated from each that they don't think there is anything they can do when one of the easiest things is to do nothing. Don't give your hard earned money right back.
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I kinda think the normal everyday people are so alienated and separated from each that they don't think there is anything they can do when one of the easiest things is to do nothing.
I agree here. I don't think there is any sense of unity that provides the power in numbers that are needed to make a significant change. We can just distract ourselves from the reality with any number of electronic realities, such as video games, television, the internet...
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Re: Corporations [Re: Kickle]
#14399845 - 05/04/11 12:48 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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It just seems strange to me that people are complacent enough with a total imbalance of power and that a system that lets someone with money determine their fate is totally OK
It's NOT totally OK, but the less powerful are helpless to change things.
This goes back to my comments in this thread where I point out that the ruthless are selected by nature and rule the rest of us.
Might makes Right. You can bury your head in the sand, but the truth will still be there.
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