Maybe one day a corporate power so bullheaded and dominant (Bush may call this company resourceful) will force all other operations to relinquish their ownership to a reasonable selling price? Lions, Tigers, and Bears...! Most publicly owned companies seem relatively open minded to the idea of sudden riches, so why not enable the beast, sell out, and start retirement a little earlier? I would watch for that little creature to grow legs sooner than later. But let it be known that in the future, each struggling institution will place their own terrible mark on society and mother nature in trying to keep an old model living. A corrupt desperation will bleed over into most everything pure we have. I don’t mean to sound cynical, but can thousands of stock values accordingly increase throughout the course of time without harming limited natural resources? If your answer is yes, then I'll ask you if it can be done without dissolving ethical boundaries. If your answer is still yes, I'll ask you if you're reading this from the confinements of a safe institution...
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One factor that's missing is adaptability. Everything, sooner or later, must adapt to the changes going on around it and big business isn't any different. The men in charge know this and are always looking for ways to adapt. I'll use the fast food industry as example A: How did they adapt to our countries growing concern over obesity? They adapted by offering healthy alternatives while maintaining their current customer base that couldn't give a s***. I don't think Corporate Powers will fizzle. I think they'll grow beyond their means and disintegrate.
Thanks for the interest. Healthy alternatives and adaptation are key, no doubt about it. Unfortunately the present times are excessively rewarding of unreasonable conduction and there's an overwhelming desire to participate. Could be a good or bad thing I guess, just depends on the participant. I'd imagine the "corporate-adaptation" will be directly influenced by generational evolution. We live in a baby boomer mold... hopefully there are enough echo boomers that have become disenchanted.
Where did you get the term eco boomers? How would you define it? As youth matures in the corporate world, I can only hope they bring with it change, decency, and more ethics. Caring about our workers in America is so important. How much $ for upper management, i.e. CEO's is enough $?
"Echo boomers" are the genetic offspring and demographic echo of our parents, the baby boomers. Also known as "Generation Y" or "Millennials," we comprise nearly one third of the U.S. population and will have arguably the largest impact over the long-term course of our country; a humbling initiative to take on indeed.
Echo boomer is new to me but I hope your faith in the view that the disenchanted will have a positive and significant impact on American culture materializes. If so, the baby boomers will have done their job by producing vast numbers of echo boomers. Sadly, the pre-baby boomers, those of us born in the early 40's who blossomed into the flower children of the 60's did not have the numbers required to sustain any meaningful change. But we gave it our all and maybe that is our contribution to you and your echo boomers. Go for it!
This is really helpful, thank you... I think that in a way, I get so wound up in the present focus, I lose sight of the ingredients which paved the way for modern progression. What chaps me is that the counter culture movements of the late 60's and early 70's never died! They’ve merely been submerged and redirected for years. Media strength has pounded the hostile implications connected with noncompliance in most times of social resistance. Just look at the 99' Seattle movement on anti-globalization... the world saw nothing more than street violence and theft, that's it. We’re now forced to take a more creative and techno-advanced way to affectively be heard and reemerge.
I would argue that your generation did produce meaningful change and rose to an unprecedented occasion in successfully inspiring and teaching a philosophy of sanctioned resistance. Can’t imagine we’d be anywhere without ya…
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