Condemning Our Entrepreneurs and Business Folks, are We Sure this is Wise?

During the last period we can recall the Savings and Loan and Junk Bond Scandal everyone was up in arms over that. It led to a public mindset that all business people were greedy and evil. One songwriter in the band Jefferson Starship who wrote “We Built This City on Rock and Roll” had a verse in his song; “Someone always playing corporation games; Who cares they’re always changing corporation names.”

The songwriter captured the minds of the masses. But who said Corporations are bad? They bring us everything we desire. Entrepreneurs are not evil, they bring us everything we see and everywhere we go. Someone produced it, sold it, invented it and made it. You bought, because you desired it. Today we see similar attitudes in our societies and today’s songwriters like Bono, attacking the corporate interests of the world. We need both of them. Yes we need the corporations for those things we desire and some Bono types out there to help the masses cope. But why is everyone so stressed out?

The media has incited the masses with the Enron, World-Com, Adelphia, Arthur Anderson, US Foods, Global Crossing, WebVan and paraded our TV sets with the names of the purported perpetrators. But really there are so few actual bad people in corporate America. Even academia and PhD’s have got into the scene now, painting entrepreneurs and executives with a broad stroke. There are many such individuals, which offer great products or services at fair prices to consumers and provide things for the world that are extremely important. Some contend that ethical business is an oxymoron and that if you were truly ethical by nature your belief system would be in conflict with your job. I would say that a corporate executive position does not necessarily counters someone’s belief system if they are a worthy or benevolent by nature human beings. When those from academia, reporters or mere TV watchers who do not understand such individuals and make a blanket statement such as calling their belief system an inner struggle and ethical corporate profession an Oxymoron. I question this really.

From my own personal experience I have created businesses which serve mankind, individual running them and are conflict free. And further would like to point out that there is nothing more noble than an entrepreneur capitalist who provides for civilizations desires.

If we label all executives and business this people who work in corporations; where shareholders equity and quarterly profits and the best interests of the owners of that business, stock holders must be of the highest priority; then in fact the we end up labeling those who truly care and create win/win /win situations for themselves, investors and consumer of end products or services; as self serving. Which they maybe in fact be true, yet without that there will be no incentive to do anything. I would like to recommend Ayn Rand and Charles Dickens to you if you are not following or disagree with my contention.

If we tell humans they have inner conflicts or should have ethical and moral conflicts in their jobs then they might start feeling inferior in the corporate inner circles where organizational capital is king, thus we have weakened the corporation and the entrepreneurs involved to a point it effects the flows of our civilization and therefore affected the quality of life and cause stress to the masses.

So let’s listen to the radio and realize indeed; we did build this city on Rock and Roll with the help of our corporations and entrepreneurs. And if it was not for us, you morons would be living on dirt flows with your farm animals contracting bird flu. Stop condemning business people, lest you will have nothing. Just shut up and give thanks. Think about it.

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