^^thankfully in real life I have a boss with an attitude
But is she a good cook?
-------------- Actually my wife is especially happy when my google check arrives each month. Thanks to douchbags like you, I get paid just for getting you worked up. -Liberal
Fast-forward a year after that warning, and we had the emergence of a new breed - young urban professionals, or yuppies, which seemed so much more attractive than their far less well-off and more parochial Middle American cousins.
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Yuppies inhabit a special place outside my heart. Tools of the elite, hoping one day to be the elite. Treacherous, smooth, disloyal.
Yuppies are not stupid. In fact their cleverness is remarkable---an ability to work the numbers, sense the mood of customers and the nation, twist ethics into amazing shapes that suit their needs; and paramount is this consideration suggested by the business elite---that greed need not be relegated in the hands of a few, the mobsters, politicians, CEOs. Greed could be fully democratic, accessible and sold to the masses.
Social engineers reach consensus: greed is good for the masses. Tele-evangelists and financial gurus like Suze Orman spread the new gospel.
Thus we have the 70s and beyond. A massive migration of ethics and morals. Personal investments replace social responsibility. Today's 401k scam is center piece proof of the public's commitment to greed. Wallstreet and mainstreet america are facades of the other, almost indistinguishable, symbiotic.
The Law of Diminishing Returns may be taking hold. The market for greed may be at capacity. The earth can handle only so much greed, a disappointment to Yuppies.
"The enterprises of the country are aggregating vast corporate combinations of unexampled capital, boldly marching, not for economic conquests only, but for political power. The question will arise, and arise in your day, though perhaps not fully in mine: Which shall rule -- wealth or man; which shall lead -- money or intellect; who shall fill public stations -- educated and patriotic free men, or the feudal serfs of corporate capital?"
-- Edward G. Ryan, chief justice of Wisconsin Supreme Court, address to graduating class at University of Wisconsin, 1873.
Fast-forward a year after that warning, and we had the emergence of a new breed - young urban professionals, or yuppies, which seemed so much more attractive than their far less well-off and more parochial Middle American cousins.
.
Yuppies inhabit a special place outside my heart. Tools of the elite, hoping one day to be the elite. Treacherous, smooth, disloyal.
Yuppies are not stupid. In fact their cleverness is remarkable---an ability to work the numbers, sense the mood of customers and the nation, twist ethics into amazing shapes that suit their needs; and paramount is this consideration suggested by the business elite---that greed need not be relegated in the hands of a few, the mobsters, politicians, CEOs. Greed could be fully democratic, accessible and sold to the masses.
Social engineers reach consensus: greed is good for the masses. Tele-evangelists and financial gurus like Suze Orman spread the new gospel.
Thus we have the 70s and beyond. A massive migration of ethics and morals. Personal investments replace social responsibility. Today's 401k scam is center piece proof of the public's commitment to greed. Wallstreet and mainstreet america are facades of the other, almost indistinguishable, symbiotic.
The Law of Diminishing Returns may be taking hold. The market for greed may be at capacity. The earth can handle only so much greed, a disappointment to Yuppies.
Call me naïve but I think greedy Corporations and CEO's are the exception and not the rule. I know far more honest business owners than crooked ones. The problem is that the crooked ones get all the press as they should, not to mention it is much easier to point fingers towards an employer than at your own short comings. After all, no one thinks more highly of oneself than you.
