From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sun Aug 10 2003 - 00:40:54 MDT
Olga writes
> > Historically, there indeed has often been an oversupply
> > of labor and an undersupply of entrepreneurs---and whose
> > fault is that?
>
> A fault is a fault is a fault? and a fault by any other name smells just as
> foul:
>
> http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/030809/bizeconomy_stress_1.html
Yeah, here is the lead paragraph from that:
Hollywood fantasy? Perhaps, but job stress is a
leading cause of illness, depression and work
place violence in America today and is increasing,
experts say.
As compared to what? As compared to when? The 20th century
wasn't any picnic, nor was the 19th. And if you want to
make yourself sick, read carefully about ancient times.
"Increasing". Sure, maybe over the last three years as many
people learned the truth about how much money they were making
and how "great" everything was in the bubble.
The fault I spoke of above can be evenly divided between
two groups. The first is "workers" who have natural human
resentment of achievement and who in addition have fallen
for propaganda directed at management and entrepreneurs.
The second is all the Marxists and left-leaning elements
of society that teach that being a business person or
entrepreneur is giving in to "them" and trying to be like
"them". Subtly or not so subtly, many working class people
grow up practically thinking themselves to be a kind of
traitor should they think of starting their own business.
Instead of starting businesses, the goal of both these
groups the last 150 years has been to "organize", and
try to deprive entrepreneurs of their property: most
crucially, why don't "workers" who are often in oversupply
historically, go start their own businesses? Mostly due
to the aforesaid propaganda: it serves leftist politicians
and theoreticians to keep such ideas out of the heads of
"the masses" so as to increase their own relative importance.
Lee
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