From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sat Aug 09 2003 - 17:48:32 MDT
Lee Corbin:
<<What makes you feel it likely that you are speaking
for the typical American boss? That is not a rhetorical
question, I just want to know (you could be right). My
own take is/was that we should expect ordinary free-market
competition to be working unless we have evidence to the
contrary. >>
Personal experience my man. These dudes and your occasional dudettes have
spent their working lives as managers, starting with freshly minted MBA's; or
marketing people (sales) or now (the ultimate liars) human resource cadres. Most
of these managers have never operated a lemonade stand, yet they are given the
reigns of business, through who they know. Some companies seem to succeed
despite themselves, too.
<<The key is whether the American entrepreneur
and business leader still has what it takes. If not,
how do you explain the failure of competition and Darwin?>>
Oh, they seem to have what it takes Lee, but there has been over the last 25
years, a focus on fattening up the fortune 500 fiends, that the small business
sector has been neglected. We have had, in the states, over 30 + years of
successful lobbying to this end, by the big and uglies. Lee, social darwinism, is
not darwinism. The 500 have mis-managed "other people's money" and have
largely gotten away with it.
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