Brad McCormick wrote,
>Yesterday I was hit by a friend telling me about what's
>going on at their place of employment. The friend
>works for a not-for-profit organization, in a field
>where a graduate degree is a job requirement. I.e.,
>I'm talking about "professionals" in an area of the
>work world that is devoted to helping persons ("human
>services", etc.).
>
>This friend described how the working conditions are
>becoming ever more callous, how the workers (these
>people with the graduate degrees...) are having
>benefits taken away from them, etc.
Brad,
Perhaps your friend should consider joining The Party. In the New Economy,
people are rewarded for having the right skills and attitudes, adding value
and being competitive in the global marketplace. It sounds like your friend
believes the world owes him/her a living. That is an old economy attitude.
Your friend perhaps believes that the self-indulgence of a bourgeois
graduate education makes him or her a better person than anyone else? That
is an old economy attitude. In today's New Economy, people with no formal
education whatsoever can succeed as long as they have the right skills and
attitudes, add value and are competitive in the global marketplace. As you
can imagine, that makes the New Economy more democratic than ever!
Your friend doesn't have to worry about WHAT are the right skills and
attitudes or HOW to add value and be competitive. The Party will take care
of that.
Can anyone join The Party? Yes and no. The Party selects as members only
those who HAVE the right skills and attitudes, who add value and who are
competitive in the global marketplace -- but anyone can become a candidate
for Party membership.
All that is required to become a candidate is that the individual publicly
affirms Party principles as often as possible. Your friend can volunteer to
help out an organization that affirms Party principles and can associate
with people who have the right skills and attitudes, who add value and who
are competitive in the global marketplace. This will help your friend's
chance of being chosen by the Party.
What are the Party's principles? The Party principles are simple: in today's
New Economy people are rewarded for having the right skills and attitudes,
adding value and being competitive in the global marketplace.
"But", some people say, "those principles are a load of crap! Does a
candidate for Party membership actually have to believe the Party
principles?" Absolutely not. Of course it would be easier if your friend
believed in Party principles. But people are recruited into the Party on the
basis of their performance, not their actual opinion. In fact, most Party
officials wouldn't give a rat's ass for Party principles, even though they
have staked their careers on pronouncing them.
Remember, in today's New Economy people are rewarded for having the right
skills and attitudes, adding value and being competitive in the global
marketplace -- if they're members of The Party.
Regards,
Tom Walker
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