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Originally Posted by Backbeach Jake
A lot of the old playground "change the rules as you go" with no consideration that your guys have to eat too. Word is no longer a bond , but merely a tool to use against and not with. Resentment builds as a result. Sad, really.
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I agree that there are mean, greedy people. That's part of the human population's attitude/personality bell curve. And some of those people, for sure, run a business. But I believe, and my experience backs it up for me, that the huge portion of that bell curve is populated with those of normal to exceptional capacity for compassion, love, and the good qualities of human nature. And many of those people run a business. Again, from my experience, the larger a business is, the more impersonal it is, the more compartmental it is, and the more prone it is to hire replaceable employees who do routine, prescribed duties. Whether it has evolved naturally, or through a combination of Henry Ford's invention of the production line/plus the ensuing collective bargaining/and the ensuing government regulation mix, or all of the above, large businesses that are mostly populated with normally compassionate beings have to run on a highly regulated, bottom line, competitive basis. This process has led, in those societies who employ it, to a rise in common standard of living. And that standard has become so habitual and expected, that instead of comparing how relatively rich we have become compared to our ancestors and to third world standards, we compare our condition to our neighbor, co-worker, boss, or to our own better times. Have we lost some "human" quality in the work place? Compared to what?