.. The forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy community for the long run.
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How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. I mean, there are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster'; instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do. If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees. But then you take a look at what the corporation does, the effect of its legal structure, the vast inequalities in pay and conditions, and you see the reality is something far different.
capitalism inequality corporations delusion
Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.
running corporations
We are trained to be employees, but no one said that we have endure a limited salary that barely keeps pace with inflation.
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Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year and setting their compensation for themselves are not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in the guise of wages.
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From Book : The Pale King
But the whole dark genius of corporations is that they allow for individual reward without individual obligation. The workers' obligations are to the executives, and the executives' obligations are to the CEO, and the CEO's obligations are to the Board of Directors, and the Board's obligations are to the stockholders, who are also the same customers the corporation will screw over at the very earliest opportunity in the name of profit, which profits are distributed as dividends to the very stockholders-slash-customers they've been fucking over in their own name. It's like a fugue of evaded responsibility.
corporations
When someone says, "I can't do it because the market won't let me," or, "My board won't let me," that is largely a cop-out. What that means is that you have failed to convince your board that you have a good enough strategy that they should endorse, and that they should weather whatever short-term negatives might be faced because, in the long run, you are doing the right thing for your investors.
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