Constructive gadfly
Published on July 26, 2008 By stevendedalus In Politics

 In the beginning there was labor in order to survive. Later there were those who could not withstand back-breaking work and soon forged weaponry to control others to do the work for them. Out of this forced labor grew primeval civilization—the rule of men—subjugating the powerless to its bidding through the division of labor from which sprang the few with talent and skills developing a hierarchy of labor that increased productivity and its own limited stature though still under the thuggery of the powerful who still regarded labor as machinery requiring limited maintenance but no human value.

There is still vestiges of this in today’s global economy even to the extent of hoodwinking the illegal crossing of our own borders in order to create an over supply of cheap, unskilled labor. As early as the ’30s the US began to import Arabian oil and strategically, except for WWII, proceeded to abandon untapped domestic oil reserves deemed uncompetitive. Even in the ’70s when OPEC balked and quadrupled its price per barrel, it was not sufficient incentive for domestic oil to compete. The already low labor costs of southern state factories were not enough to prevent profiteers—who still regard the rule of law secondary to the rule of men—from going abroad to search for the lowest denominator of labor bereft of human value.

 

  

Copyright © 2008 Richard R. Kennedy All rights reserved. Revised: July 26,  2008.

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on Aug 14, 2008
CEOs can't do the job either.


CEOs do the job, or they lose it. Their job is not to design the chips, but to facillitate those who do. The reason they get the big bucks is because so few can do what they do. Can you guide a multi-billion dollar company? I know one on here can, and he is. And he is paid for it. But I cannot. And I suspect most here cannot.

You cant design a microchip if you do not have the facilities and resources to do it.
on Aug 14, 2008
The end result is the company can get away with paying the managers fairly little, and still get a lot out of them, by exploiting the managers lack of information of the other managers abilities relative to theirs.


True, and I am sure there are companies that do that all the time. We hear about them every day. They are filing Chapter 11.
on Aug 16, 2008
The end result is the company can get away with paying the managers fairly little, and still get a lot out of them, by exploiting the managers lack of information of the other managers abilities relative to theirs.


Yes, CEOs are clever that way: divide and conquer middle managers so that they are at each other's throat. Of course, we call it competitiveness.

Doc, you obviously never belonged to a union, much less presied over one as I had.
on Aug 16, 2008
The end result is the company can get away with paying the managers fairly little, and still get a lot out of them, by exploiting the managers lack of information of the other managers abilities relative to theirs.


Yes, CEOs are clever that way: divide and conquer middle managers so that they are at each other's throat. Of course, we call it competitiveness.

Doc, you obviously never belonged to a union, much less presided over one local as I had.
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