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LeftyHenry said:Yes it would, and basic jobs like that could be rated just on time spent because they don't take much effort, or amount of customers served
however I gaurentee that screwing up an order would have an effect on the LTVs you got lol.
So the motivation for people to do their jobs well would be bonus LTV's? Still we are dealing with the same problem here as we would in a system of money. Remember Marx's Alienation Through Capitalism? Think about what causes that alienation. Who is responsible for it? If you continue to dig into this mystery you will eventually realize that everything points back to the mega-corporation. They are what cause the alienation of each person from their humanity.
LeftyHenry said:Couldn't agree more. I'm listening if you have a new system.
Divorce rates are up. That's, well odd I'd say because I don't understand the cause. Pop-culture? doubt it. Loss of spirtuality? maybe but if someone is forced to stay married because of religion despite the fact that they're unhappy it'd make no sense. Corporations? maybe.
I do not believe voting works. I don't think people can be trusted to keep politicians in check. Just look at our country. Half the people don't vote, is that democracy? Only the rich can be elected, is that democracy? If you stray from either of the elected parties they will use their money, power, and influence to make sure you are never elected to office again. It's like a gang war and if you stray from one side too far, you risk destroying yourself.
As far as the divorce, perhaps I need to go into more detail. The reason divorce is so high is because in our society which is dominated by corporations. People are not viewed as human, as a result this mentality permiates every aspect of our society from our children to their parents.
Think of the subliminal messages which are being taught to everyone.
A corporation doesn't reward loyalty. To those who have been with a corporation for a long time, the corporation finds a way to remove them and higher a lower paid worker who was probably trained by the old employee.
Subliminal message taught to society by the corporation - loyalty doesn't matter in this world.
A corporation like Wal-Mart moves into a small city and wipes out the local shops that have been there for decades which paid their workers decent wages. Wal-Mart now pays 7.50 an hour as opposed to the small shop that paid 10 dollars an hour. Wal-Mart makes sure to lower their wages to destroy the small competition knowing that while it will take bearable losses for the meantime, the competition will go bankrupt in that same time frame.
Subliminal message taught to society by the corporation - It's ok to destroy the livelihood of your neighbors as long as you can profit from it.
A corporation advertises 24/7 in your face in every aspect of your life that you need this and that to be happy. Aside from taking all of your time away working 50 hours a week for a place that would toss you away like your nothing, they continue to brainwash you day and night that materialism not people, is what will bring you happiness.
Subliminal message taught to society by the corporation - You need to buy their products to be happy. In order to buy their products you must work 50 hours a week at their low paying jobs. So you sacrifice your family, friends, quality of life, in order to spend long hours at work to get things that you are told every day will make you happy when infact they don't.
A corporation places an add on tv talking about how it is helping a family or victims from some disaster such as Home-Depot and Wal-Mart did during Katrina. They are not doing this because they care about the people at all. They are doing it because they know people will buy more products from them. In a capitalistic society, a corporations only goal is to make profit for its shareholders. They will fake empathy, pretend to care, lie, cheat, steal, and even allow people to die for their profits.
The following is a real example of this.
"In a 1933 Supreme Court judgment, Justice Louis Brandeis finally made the obvious connection, when he stated that corporations were “Frankenstein monsters” capable of doing evil.
The author cites another famous case from 1994, in which General Motors was sued because on Christmas Day 1993 a mother with her four children in the car was hit from behind while stopped at a stop light, causing her gas tank of her 1979 Chevy Malibu to explode, burning and badly disfiguring all five of them. During the trial, a report was introduced showing that GM knew the gas tank was set so far back that it could explode on impact, killing the car’s occupants. In fact, about five hundred people were being killed this way at the time of the report in 1973 when the new Malibu style cars were being planned. He figured that each fatality could cost the company $200,000 in legal damages, then divided the figure by 41 million, the number of cars GM had on the road. The engineer concluded that each death cost GM only $2.40 per automobile. The cost of ensuring that fuel tanks did not explode in crashes was estimated to be $8.59 per car. That meant the company could save $6.19 per car if it let people die in fuel-fed fires rather than alter the design of vehicles to avoid such fires. (Bakan, pp. 61-63)"
Subliminal message taught to society by the corporation - It's ok to sacrifice what makes us human if we can profit from it.
LeftyHenry said:Lenin once said that fascism is capitalism in decay. It's true. I think what you're saying is on the right track but also I think money is the bull's eye. Money? Yes, money. People are almost enslaved to their wages. They run their lives around it and it screws with people's minds.
Money is the bullseye in the sense that money is the sole existence for the creature known as the corporation which is responsible for making every person in every capitalistic society around the world do things that are contrary to the values we generally wish to aspire for. Honor, Justice, Loyalty, Courage. Corporations steal these things from us, and they leave us hollow and empty, like wraths or spirits, wandering, consuming endlessly the things we are told will make us so happy, only to never realize these are the very things which are destroying every part of us which is human.