We have created a generation or two of profoundly ignorant people who think that they don't have to create value in order to extract it from others.
We have created a generation or two of profoundly ignorant people who think that they don't have to create value in order to extract it from others.
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Too many people view 'jobs' as things that to provide good things for the jobholder...like a title of nobility or an annuity from a lottery win...rather than having anything to do with something that actually needs doing.
I think 'jobs' SHOULD provide good things for the jobholder. AND vice versa: job holders do good things on the job. Commensurately reciprocal.
A good company devises good jobs that develop and keeps on good people, who are also good citizens; in good communities, who are good providers to good families; who are good parents to good kids who will later also become good employees. A good company ALSO pushes out employees who consistently fall short of a good job's requirements and/or the company's expectations.
A bad company sees "labor" as pretty much interchangeable with "machinery". Bad companies are pretty much routinely balancing the costs of keeping laborers laboring (superficially according to labor laws and restrictions) versus the costs of a machine. Machines can be used more like 24/7, can't complain, and at end of the depreciation cycle can usually be replaced with something technology has already made better, faster, and often cheaper. Oh, and of course slaves and illegal-immigrant laborers unrestricted by law now fall into the comparison calculations of "bad" companies. Slave-level laborers make generally bad citizens (etc, in contrast to the above.)
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Jobs-Strategy-Companies-Employees-ebook/dp/B00DZQE31I
Generally loyalty is a two-way street. The king depends on his nobles, who support him in return for him supporting them. The nobles depend on their knights, too, so the noble has to be loyal in two directions; and, if betrayed by either direction he can appeal to the other for support.
Sometimes you get something like that with the employer/employee/union system, with the employee having a need to be loyal to a good company (if they have a good company) and also to the union. If either side betrays them, they can appeal to the other.
If a good employee doing a good job that needs doing has a bad employer, he ought to be doing his good job for someone else. It's a good job if people value getting it done and demonstrate their appreciation by trading something of value for it. If the worker can make ends meet without being paid for it and wants to donate his effort, knowing it's good work in its own right regardless of pay, so much the better.
But other people are not there for the purpose of having value extracted from them regardless of whether they value the work that we happen to think should be valued.
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