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This seems like typical behavior in corporations;
there seems to be a big disconnect between the one calling the shots and the ones fetching the glasses.
Of course, the heads of the company are more focused on the bigger picture, the macroeconomic changes & valuations that in-turn affect their market shares.
The ensuring of a stable yet profitable arrangement where the total revenue keeps increasing and damages to the company keep minimizing.
Well, maybe that's too ideal of a scenario. Of course, business execs do need to consider that there will be shortcomings along the way; their planning needs to reflect that the company is ready to face and power through any sort of downfall.
However, their goals never deviate; they're directed to operate back in equilibrium or double down to reduce costs and maximize profits. Right? Based on what I hear and see, that's the only conclusion I can draw. Every business values individual (profit) over anything else. That's how the capitalistic system renders each corporation to survive; by only preparing itself alone to thrive. Without considering anything else.
Why don't we pursue somewhat more realistic goals? Individual gains really doesn't make sense for an entity in a growing economy to aim for, right? Isn't their success also dependent on the transactional behavior of OTHER corporations, heck, even the governments as well?
So many resources ready to be used at their disposal; resources that can be easily accessed by the right CHANNELLING of capital in the right direction.
Capitalism being used to direct for a more socialistic economy; why do we keep ruling it out without any exploration?
I understand that sectors as dictated by groups such as Big Oil, i.e., the top 1% of every business ecosystem, wouldn't care about this. Their hedonistic way of life is probably too ingrained into their existence that they cannot function in any other way.
But then there's the rest of us; either willing to join them, face off with them, or convince them about the ill-effects of a self-obsessed economy. If we can't enable a more equal distribution, how else can we make life worth living for ourselves, let alone others?
Conditions of minimum living keep dwindling, costs keep getting higher, people keep getting lonelier; the gap between the rich and the poor keeps spreading wider....
Does whatever shit we do, even matter; as long as we don't direct our actions in the right manner, are we stuck in this self-consuming loop forever?
If a self-centric way of living is the way to go, then maybe the self doesn't have to centered around us alone. We can extend the definition by including more of everyone into our selves. Maybe that can help.
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We have to prove Adam Smith both right and wrong by figuring out the kind of change we can induce to make things better.
Let's start from somewhere. Let's not forget 20250221_TheDrought_pen.