Exploited Class
23rd October 2002, 17:22
The people shall rise up as corporations fall down, a small theory for big change.
By Exploited Editor
There is a common saying among many people in the United States, vote with your dollar. A scary thought to think about democracy at such a low grass root level but I suppose it is there to make up for the loss of democracy at the top level. It is preached in a capitalists system that if something is successful it will succeed, there are many levels of success. A corporation or business finding a niche and filling, doing so in a manner that costs do not overwhelm sales – creating a profit. Investments into other markets and choosing wise investments, diversified investments, can make for success in the long term for failing markets. There is success in competition, having a product or service that others provide but doing it better, cheaper or sadly; just having the best marketing campaign. There are also successful moves of layoffs, moving to cheaper locations, inflating stock prices and downsizing. Monopolizing, insider trading, cutting corners, ignoring rules and regulations, polluting to save money, tax breaks, corporate welfare, reducing wages and removing any kind of possible hindrance that might cost money like safety regulations, environmental laws and or health care. Although possibly not ethical, still tried and practiced by many corporations to this day. It would be a little naive to think that when millions and many time billions of dollars can and are a concern, a company whose focus is profit, for profit and of course success by profits; is going to chose something else over success. Now that you have thought of all the possible ways to success, of which there is to be sure more of, now what about all the possibilities of corporation failure?
Corporate or business failure happens all the time for many a reason. A lack of continual market need for specified goods or services, improper investments, lack of profit, costs outweigh sales, lawsuits and a misappropriation of funds. There is an impressive amount of reasons for why a company may someday go under, but there is always the same end result – bankruptcy. What are some of the things that can happen before the final chapter 11 or 13 death sentence, with the airlines there can be an injection of funds from the government to help the company overcome the hurdle of the above stated reasons. With Amtrak, we can throw money at it hoping that this much needed but less used service stays alive. It is preached by the capitalist that if these companies go under it could wreak the whole economy, jobs would be loss, companies depending on these companies would suffer and it would all come down to somehow effecting you the consumer. They are right, the fall of these companies could cause devastating catastrophes for the whole unstable capitalist open free market. What if there was a different way, a better way, a way that would keep the unstable market of vote by dollar, well stable?
There was a poll taken and displayed on Common Dreams’ web site on what American want to do about the crisis with Amtrak, it was a pretty simple poll that posed the question “What do you think the American Government should do for Amtrak?” The choices were, give the amount of tax dollars needed to stay going, give a bit of our tax dollars for what they need, loan out our tax dollars to them or do nothing. As reading this I thought, what about just taking it and giving it to the people? Here we have a private institution, with people making money no matter what they do and still staying in business. You might say that they aren’t actually “making money” if so they wouldn’t need a bail out from us. They are still however making money, they have paychecks, and the top people are still taking home 100,000’s of thousands of dollars a year. For all I know the reason they are not showing profit is because funds are going straight to management’s pockets. They are making money, if not they would be unemployed, penniless and out on the streets. Capitalists talk of Communism lacking incentives as the basis for that system’s failures, but they do not speak of this one in the midst of their own system.
Here is the small revolution in theory; the people get to have failing businesses. There isn’t much room for argument here, we all ready are giving them money to stay in business and perhaps they are making less money than before, but I doubt it. Perhaps they can exploited a necessary service and run that service into the ground with little or no consequences except a big corporate welfare check. If their company is deemed necessary then there might be no end to the checks from us. Am I thinking that all corporations are able to be that hideous and evil in nature, of course not Enron, I mean Tyco, oops sorry I meant to say Adelphia? We stop the checks going into somebody’s unchecked salary, unchecked company spending and unchecked golden parachute, and we now check them with our rules and our pay scales. Our tax dollars will still go to these companies, but now we can benefit from our collective purchase. Now that our company no longer needs to worry about competition, no longer worry about investments into other ventures, no longer worries about large pay checks, it can bring down its price to what everybody can afford to use. It will be the OurAirways and OurTrak. They do have a budget from our tax dollars, to be sure it will be much smaller than our prior hostile take over; and the fee to use? Minimal. Imagine a 20 dollar flight to anywhere in the U.S. Imagine being able to use a service provided by the people and maintained by the same government that brought the world the most advanced and powerful military in the world. If we can do it for the boys in green, can’t we do it for us? No longer are we just building socialist systems for the people, we are taking over the ones that failed to survive in the market economy. It is a revolution of obtaining failures. It isn’t just the companies’ fault for falling apart, it is core of the capitalist system that was injured from the start and these companies are just its visible wounds. Capitalism is the failure but not to dwell on that, socialism is here to clean those wounds one diseased ridden, failed company at a time. Capitalism is much like the victim of incurable condition, we, the socialists, can not cure your problem immediately but we can help ease the pain on your way.
By Exploited Editor
There is a common saying among many people in the United States, vote with your dollar. A scary thought to think about democracy at such a low grass root level but I suppose it is there to make up for the loss of democracy at the top level. It is preached in a capitalists system that if something is successful it will succeed, there are many levels of success. A corporation or business finding a niche and filling, doing so in a manner that costs do not overwhelm sales – creating a profit. Investments into other markets and choosing wise investments, diversified investments, can make for success in the long term for failing markets. There is success in competition, having a product or service that others provide but doing it better, cheaper or sadly; just having the best marketing campaign. There are also successful moves of layoffs, moving to cheaper locations, inflating stock prices and downsizing. Monopolizing, insider trading, cutting corners, ignoring rules and regulations, polluting to save money, tax breaks, corporate welfare, reducing wages and removing any kind of possible hindrance that might cost money like safety regulations, environmental laws and or health care. Although possibly not ethical, still tried and practiced by many corporations to this day. It would be a little naive to think that when millions and many time billions of dollars can and are a concern, a company whose focus is profit, for profit and of course success by profits; is going to chose something else over success. Now that you have thought of all the possible ways to success, of which there is to be sure more of, now what about all the possibilities of corporation failure?
Corporate or business failure happens all the time for many a reason. A lack of continual market need for specified goods or services, improper investments, lack of profit, costs outweigh sales, lawsuits and a misappropriation of funds. There is an impressive amount of reasons for why a company may someday go under, but there is always the same end result – bankruptcy. What are some of the things that can happen before the final chapter 11 or 13 death sentence, with the airlines there can be an injection of funds from the government to help the company overcome the hurdle of the above stated reasons. With Amtrak, we can throw money at it hoping that this much needed but less used service stays alive. It is preached by the capitalist that if these companies go under it could wreak the whole economy, jobs would be loss, companies depending on these companies would suffer and it would all come down to somehow effecting you the consumer. They are right, the fall of these companies could cause devastating catastrophes for the whole unstable capitalist open free market. What if there was a different way, a better way, a way that would keep the unstable market of vote by dollar, well stable?
There was a poll taken and displayed on Common Dreams’ web site on what American want to do about the crisis with Amtrak, it was a pretty simple poll that posed the question “What do you think the American Government should do for Amtrak?” The choices were, give the amount of tax dollars needed to stay going, give a bit of our tax dollars for what they need, loan out our tax dollars to them or do nothing. As reading this I thought, what about just taking it and giving it to the people? Here we have a private institution, with people making money no matter what they do and still staying in business. You might say that they aren’t actually “making money” if so they wouldn’t need a bail out from us. They are still however making money, they have paychecks, and the top people are still taking home 100,000’s of thousands of dollars a year. For all I know the reason they are not showing profit is because funds are going straight to management’s pockets. They are making money, if not they would be unemployed, penniless and out on the streets. Capitalists talk of Communism lacking incentives as the basis for that system’s failures, but they do not speak of this one in the midst of their own system.
Here is the small revolution in theory; the people get to have failing businesses. There isn’t much room for argument here, we all ready are giving them money to stay in business and perhaps they are making less money than before, but I doubt it. Perhaps they can exploited a necessary service and run that service into the ground with little or no consequences except a big corporate welfare check. If their company is deemed necessary then there might be no end to the checks from us. Am I thinking that all corporations are able to be that hideous and evil in nature, of course not Enron, I mean Tyco, oops sorry I meant to say Adelphia? We stop the checks going into somebody’s unchecked salary, unchecked company spending and unchecked golden parachute, and we now check them with our rules and our pay scales. Our tax dollars will still go to these companies, but now we can benefit from our collective purchase. Now that our company no longer needs to worry about competition, no longer worry about investments into other ventures, no longer worries about large pay checks, it can bring down its price to what everybody can afford to use. It will be the OurAirways and OurTrak. They do have a budget from our tax dollars, to be sure it will be much smaller than our prior hostile take over; and the fee to use? Minimal. Imagine a 20 dollar flight to anywhere in the U.S. Imagine being able to use a service provided by the people and maintained by the same government that brought the world the most advanced and powerful military in the world. If we can do it for the boys in green, can’t we do it for us? No longer are we just building socialist systems for the people, we are taking over the ones that failed to survive in the market economy. It is a revolution of obtaining failures. It isn’t just the companies’ fault for falling apart, it is core of the capitalist system that was injured from the start and these companies are just its visible wounds. Capitalism is the failure but not to dwell on that, socialism is here to clean those wounds one diseased ridden, failed company at a time. Capitalism is much like the victim of incurable condition, we, the socialists, can not cure your problem immediately but we can help ease the pain on your way.