There is no end to their stupidity. I can not stress what my favorite bosses taught me - the most important person is our workers. happy workers - happy customers. we need universal maternity leave where our government pays mothers to stay home for a minimum of 1 year at a reasonable pay for everyone.
As wealthy as America is, it can afford to be decent. We need to stop rewarding peak, or what is perceived by investors as peak economic performance, and reward peak human performance. Many CEOs suffer from arrested development, which seems to prevent them from discerning right from wrong. Nevertheless, they are lionized by investors, who should also learn some self-control. Neoliberalism had it's time in the sun, but it is not a basis for a sustainable human society!
Amazing how inhumane humans can be. I'm trying to figure out whether the middle managers and supervisors in these situations you specifically mentioned have any regrets about what they have done. On strictly moral grounds are they worse than the people in our military carrying out the illegal orders they are given by Trump and his lackeys? Are they worse than ICE? Another question. With the assault on pregnant women's health in the name of corporate policy, where are the right to lifers? Are they going to charge the corporations and their managers for murder when such inhumane acts cause a miscarriage? Of course not. Acts of Corporation are raised to a higher level than Acts of God in our country. So much needs fixing. Thanks, as always, for opening our eyes Mr. Hightower.
One of the advantages to working maintenance jobs was I could avoid social climbing, back-stabbing middle managers that plague office workers. They emulate loathsome bosses because they want to become one. These types very, very seldom knew anything about machinery and facility repair, so usually they pretty much left us alone.
This is a good point to consider, because capitalism for billionaires is more dominant in politics all over the world, and especially so in the US, which used to take pride in being a democracy that offered good lives, opportunities for advancement and a whole list of human rights. The current version of capitalism that we are now struggling with is not consistent with the teachings of capitalism's guru, Adam Smith, who stressed that the wealth of a nation is not its money, but its people, the humans who are inspired to work, create things and live a better life. This is not what the rule of the billionaires is about. It's about taking control of nations to put more money into the pockets of the richest people and corporations and to leave less money and literally everything else for the rest (92%) of the impacted people. Less decent climate, less water, less land, fewer trees, less ice, less snow, less room on airplanes, less healthcare, less travel vacations, fewer worker rights as well as fewer jobs, less childcare - all while the rich cavort in Monaco, in mansions, private islands, private jets (50 times as polluting as a commercial jet ride) and buy politicians and judges at will....
Clearly, wealth has corrupted and is ruining life for the majority of humans, as well as most animals and plants. There is a lot of evidence of not caring for the harm done by these wealthy sorts (tobacco, Roundup, fossil fuels, poisoned groundwater......) and very little evidence that they have any conscience about the harm they're doing. AI is the latest of these current and future harms, being pushed by the more money types in spite of the harm they are already doing and the enormous harm to come. This meets a clinical definition of psychopathic personality disorder being the best paid job. Is this not a homicidal/suicidal course for the human race? Stop it or many or all will perish.
In some Native American cultures hoarding wealth was a crime punishable by banishment, an almost certain death sentence. Capitalist imperialism under Andrew Jackson in particular went so far as to perpetrate genocide against Native Americans who had the temerity to stand up to the prevailing culture of greed, part and parcel of manifest destiny and white supremacism, that persists in America to this day.
Turning screws on pregnant women in the workplace is part of the legacy of that history.
Wasn't John Nash's original idea to complete Adam Smith by adding that one does what is most beneficial for himself and beneficial for the group? Watching 'A Beautiful Mind' with Christopher Plummer
You have to ask yourself, "what difference does it make if someone sits down to do their job?" Seems like cruelty is the point. I hope all these women join in the May Day “No Work, No School, No Shopping” on May first. Time for ALL workers to get a little appreciation!
I was going to bring up mayday. Tomorrow is may day ,the inequality news letter is asking for people not to work, shop or go to school. As for shopping we need to boycott a lot of big corporations permanently. I hope to not see my fellow lowdowners in stores tomorrow
The fundamental ethical question is, "What's valued over what... corporate welfare or human welfare?" Corporations should exist to serve humanity. Not the other way around. Abraham Lincoln said it better than I ever could:
“Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
Happy May Day, or International Workers Day, or Labour Day as they call it around here where I live.
Jim the incidents you site here are all to common in my experience, and not just recently. Also the experience of several friends. Guy D, working for Walmart goes to take his assigned lunch break. The manager says no do this first. When Guy goes to take his lunch after finishing the task the manager says “no you have skip lunch today”.
There is something drastically out of wack regarding corporate morality today and it’s not new.
I visit my daughter who lives in Germany. Every clerk working a grocery store cash register is sitting down in a comfortable seat. A best friend lives in Denmark. She was on paid maternity leave for a year with the birth of her two children and nurses came to her home to do follow up well baby care.
And there was paid child care when she returned to work.
It's a class thing. To the rich and powerful, there's a natural hierarchy. If you're poorly paid, you're disposable. Subtract more points for being female, especially if dark skinned. Because a few people, despite overwhelming odds, rise from the bottom to the top, that proves it's possible for anyone who really tries. Therefore where you are is where you deserve to be.
You'd think the Dem Party would be fighting for us. Sure did during the Depression; the New Deal is proof. Then the Ds went neolib, buying into (or were bought by) the idea top down economics and deregulation would eventually benefit us lessers. They've done everything they could to make the world safe for corporate economics. Meanwhile, we workers been waiting for decades as good paying jobs disappear and the billionaires have become so obscenely wealthy they can control entire state and national governments. Globally, too.
Cue sad look from D presidential candidate who claims "I feel your pain." Oh yeah?! You take corporate and 1%er $$$. Reality is you've done nothing about re-regulating a rapacious econ system as our lives continue to worsen.
I remember when the Yuppies took on the attitude that one's life value was based on how much money one made per hour. Then it became how your credit score was. It's a totally inhumane classist outlook on the living.
We Boomers, thanks to whom civil rights, women's liberation, the AIM, the 18 year old vote, gay rights, ecological activism, and anti Vietnam war efforts succeeded, have been accused of turning into Yuppies by younger generations. Statistically, Boomers are supposedly born 1945-1964. But anyone who doesn't remember 11/22/1963, the 1969 moon landing, or any of the movements I cited is culturally not one of us. The Yuppies became adults in the early '80s. Cheered on by Wall St. slimeballs, the Reagan Rs, and the emerging neolib Ds.
Just another example of the abuse of corporate power.We used to have agencies monitoring these abuses who had the power to correct but under Trumpolini there are virtually no checks on abuse.We need to organize and vote those politicians out who side with corporate rather than their constituents.
Unfortunately, it seems to be part of the human condition. The more money and power you have, the more you want. It seemingly becomes their drug, and one that they feel they are entitled to...I think eventually they love the economic spoils so intensely, they resent the working class upon whose back they prospered, choosing to believe that the gap between the haves and have nots should never be bridged, but continue to widen.
There is no end to their stupidity. I can not stress what my favorite bosses taught me - the most important person is our workers. happy workers - happy customers. we need universal maternity leave where our government pays mothers to stay home for a minimum of 1 year at a reasonable pay for everyone.
Yes!
As wealthy as America is, it can afford to be decent. We need to stop rewarding peak, or what is perceived by investors as peak economic performance, and reward peak human performance. Many CEOs suffer from arrested development, which seems to prevent them from discerning right from wrong. Nevertheless, they are lionized by investors, who should also learn some self-control. Neoliberalism had it's time in the sun, but it is not a basis for a sustainable human society!
Amazing how inhumane humans can be. I'm trying to figure out whether the middle managers and supervisors in these situations you specifically mentioned have any regrets about what they have done. On strictly moral grounds are they worse than the people in our military carrying out the illegal orders they are given by Trump and his lackeys? Are they worse than ICE? Another question. With the assault on pregnant women's health in the name of corporate policy, where are the right to lifers? Are they going to charge the corporations and their managers for murder when such inhumane acts cause a miscarriage? Of course not. Acts of Corporation are raised to a higher level than Acts of God in our country. So much needs fixing. Thanks, as always, for opening our eyes Mr. Hightower.
One of the advantages to working maintenance jobs was I could avoid social climbing, back-stabbing middle managers that plague office workers. They emulate loathsome bosses because they want to become one. These types very, very seldom knew anything about machinery and facility repair, so usually they pretty much left us alone.
I did pretty much the same over my working life, loading and unloading trucks, making things work oftentimes in spite of the "managers".
I don't consider corporations to be humans.
Being soulless, they're unconcerned with any form of right-to-life.
I remember reading somewhere that when you enter the corporate world you have to check your morals and ethics at the door...
This is a good point to consider, because capitalism for billionaires is more dominant in politics all over the world, and especially so in the US, which used to take pride in being a democracy that offered good lives, opportunities for advancement and a whole list of human rights. The current version of capitalism that we are now struggling with is not consistent with the teachings of capitalism's guru, Adam Smith, who stressed that the wealth of a nation is not its money, but its people, the humans who are inspired to work, create things and live a better life. This is not what the rule of the billionaires is about. It's about taking control of nations to put more money into the pockets of the richest people and corporations and to leave less money and literally everything else for the rest (92%) of the impacted people. Less decent climate, less water, less land, fewer trees, less ice, less snow, less room on airplanes, less healthcare, less travel vacations, fewer worker rights as well as fewer jobs, less childcare - all while the rich cavort in Monaco, in mansions, private islands, private jets (50 times as polluting as a commercial jet ride) and buy politicians and judges at will....
Clearly, wealth has corrupted and is ruining life for the majority of humans, as well as most animals and plants. There is a lot of evidence of not caring for the harm done by these wealthy sorts (tobacco, Roundup, fossil fuels, poisoned groundwater......) and very little evidence that they have any conscience about the harm they're doing. AI is the latest of these current and future harms, being pushed by the more money types in spite of the harm they are already doing and the enormous harm to come. This meets a clinical definition of psychopathic personality disorder being the best paid job. Is this not a homicidal/suicidal course for the human race? Stop it or many or all will perish.
Greed is not good. It's destructive.
In some Native American cultures hoarding wealth was a crime punishable by banishment, an almost certain death sentence. Capitalist imperialism under Andrew Jackson in particular went so far as to perpetrate genocide against Native Americans who had the temerity to stand up to the prevailing culture of greed, part and parcel of manifest destiny and white supremacism, that persists in America to this day.
Turning screws on pregnant women in the workplace is part of the legacy of that history.
Wasn't John Nash's original idea to complete Adam Smith by adding that one does what is most beneficial for himself and beneficial for the group? Watching 'A Beautiful Mind' with Christopher Plummer
Very succinctly stated, l agree with you and think that dissolving these abusive, non-living corporations would serve US well.
You have to ask yourself, "what difference does it make if someone sits down to do their job?" Seems like cruelty is the point. I hope all these women join in the May Day “No Work, No School, No Shopping” on May first. Time for ALL workers to get a little appreciation!
I was going to bring up mayday. Tomorrow is may day ,the inequality news letter is asking for people not to work, shop or go to school. As for shopping we need to boycott a lot of big corporations permanently. I hope to not see my fellow lowdowners in stores tomorrow
The fundamental ethical question is, "What's valued over what... corporate welfare or human welfare?" Corporations should exist to serve humanity. Not the other way around. Abraham Lincoln said it better than I ever could:
“Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
Happy May Day, or International Workers Day, or Labour Day as they call it around here where I live.
Jim the incidents you site here are all to common in my experience, and not just recently. Also the experience of several friends. Guy D, working for Walmart goes to take his assigned lunch break. The manager says no do this first. When Guy goes to take his lunch after finishing the task the manager says “no you have skip lunch today”.
There is something drastically out of wack regarding corporate morality today and it’s not new.
Susan B
I visit my daughter who lives in Germany. Every clerk working a grocery store cash register is sitting down in a comfortable seat. A best friend lives in Denmark. She was on paid maternity leave for a year with the birth of her two children and nurses came to her home to do follow up well baby care.
And there was paid child care when she returned to work.
It's a class thing. To the rich and powerful, there's a natural hierarchy. If you're poorly paid, you're disposable. Subtract more points for being female, especially if dark skinned. Because a few people, despite overwhelming odds, rise from the bottom to the top, that proves it's possible for anyone who really tries. Therefore where you are is where you deserve to be.
You'd think the Dem Party would be fighting for us. Sure did during the Depression; the New Deal is proof. Then the Ds went neolib, buying into (or were bought by) the idea top down economics and deregulation would eventually benefit us lessers. They've done everything they could to make the world safe for corporate economics. Meanwhile, we workers been waiting for decades as good paying jobs disappear and the billionaires have become so obscenely wealthy they can control entire state and national governments. Globally, too.
Cue sad look from D presidential candidate who claims "I feel your pain." Oh yeah?! You take corporate and 1%er $$$. Reality is you've done nothing about re-regulating a rapacious econ system as our lives continue to worsen.
I remember when the Yuppies took on the attitude that one's life value was based on how much money one made per hour. Then it became how your credit score was. It's a totally inhumane classist outlook on the living.
We Boomers, thanks to whom civil rights, women's liberation, the AIM, the 18 year old vote, gay rights, ecological activism, and anti Vietnam war efforts succeeded, have been accused of turning into Yuppies by younger generations. Statistically, Boomers are supposedly born 1945-1964. But anyone who doesn't remember 11/22/1963, the 1969 moon landing, or any of the movements I cited is culturally not one of us. The Yuppies became adults in the early '80s. Cheered on by Wall St. slimeballs, the Reagan Rs, and the emerging neolib Ds.
Right on, brother.
Unbelievable. What about human decency??
Just another example of the abuse of corporate power.We used to have agencies monitoring these abuses who had the power to correct but under Trumpolini there are virtually no checks on abuse.We need to organize and vote those politicians out who side with corporate rather than their constituents.
I still think that we should have been called the 'Duck and Cover' generation
Double SOB, indeed! Goodwill is writing employees up for "too many absences"
Unfortunately, it seems to be part of the human condition. The more money and power you have, the more you want. It seemingly becomes their drug, and one that they feel they are entitled to...I think eventually they love the economic spoils so intensely, they resent the working class upon whose back they prospered, choosing to believe that the gap between the haves and have nots should never be bridged, but continue to widen.