I'm glad to read you as well, gruff. I've missed your comments. Glad to see you're still optimistic.
dj On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:09 PM, gruff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 2, 3:24 pm, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc&feature=channel > > > > So much for capitalism! > > Capitalism is very much a provider in this situation. Only with > sufficient profits can a company fund such an endeavor until it starts > producing a return. Management may be magnanimous but the CEOs and > Board Members, sole ownerships and modified partnerships have to be > profit motivated. I think all this trend -- and hopefully the > principles symbolized in the video are a trend -- will lead to perhaps > such a thing as a moral profit. > > Nor don't see this perspective on motivation as a new discovery. Some > companies knew the benefits of less money and more creativity a long > time ago. It's quite possible that IBM -- which is the company where > I first saw it in action -- may have been among the first to put it > into action. I had occasion to both work for IBM in the capacity of a > contracted employee doing drone work and at another unconnected time > roommated with two IBM software engineers. IBM builds many of it's > plants -- especially when they are think tanks -- in small communities > and encourages its employees to socialize together. They also gave > their employees broad latitude to work on their own ideas which, of > course, IBM owns should they become successful. Obviously a number of > them have so become. > > From what I hear and read, Google's another as is Apple. There are > quite a number of them and not surprisingly I think most are in other > developed nations. We're more or less laggards in this arena. > > What boggles me is the huge number of companies less successful than > they might be and yet ignoring the principles and dynamics of more > successful companies. It's like saying, here's a more productive and > satisfying means of making greater profits and have a happy, loyal, > dependable cadre of employees and a response that is a sub-order of > magnitude of duh, gimme da monkey wrench dude. > > There has always been a higher self in each of us that is not lured by > money as much as it is by progress, achievement and the resulting > personal satisfaction. It's like being blessed. And now we have the > chance to truly achieve that state of mind. > > Most of the grunt work, the suffocation of doing the same boring task > day and day out till you can retire type of work, is now -- and has > been for some time -- migrating to emerging economies that are not > unionized and can do that sort of work better and cheaper. This is > not going to suffocate the U.S. economy nor that of any other > developed nation. > > In fact, I believe the opposite will happen. The migration of grunt > jobs to other nations will usher in a period of creative destruction > (or destructive creation, your choice) where we will have no choice > but to mature our educational system to produce more creative thinkers > than grunts. > > Some might say the unions destroyed manufacturing in America and > within the parameters of blame they deserve a part, but to a greater > sense I see it as a maturing of our economy and hopefully our > society. Sophistication if nothing else will drive us there > eventually but it's nice to see some who have started on their own. > > Insightful presentation, Orn. Nice find. >
