Reply #64: I'd punish them for their excesses. [View All]

[Sirveri]

Lets face it, corporate CEO's have been getting a raise of 192% a year since the 80's, while average income has increased by what, 2-3% annually. They make something like 513 times the ammount one of their average workers makes. Then they cut jobs to go overseas and cut health care, because, golly gee, it's just too expensive!

I have no problem with capitalism when it recognises that it is based upon its workers, but the corporations are designed with only one purpose, to benefit their stock holders above and to the utmost exclusion of all others. That's their job, their job is not to do good in the world. It's not to create jobs. It's to make the people who invest in them richer. And those people are generally already rich.

My boss had a great business ethic. Your company should when possible attempt to benefit the community and provide value to it. Does it benefit a community when you pack up shop and outsource to Nicaragua? No. Why did you outsource to Nicaragua? Simple, it's cheaper on all fronts, and that's all you care about, because you're a giant corporation.

Who's the parasite? It's not the worker, the worker makes the company more money than he costs them, otherwise they would fire him. It's the company getting more money out of the employee than the employee himself gets. The Worker is the one who buys the products. The worker always gets the short end of the stick. Without the worker, the company would not function, it would wither and die.