Perhaps most Americans are unaware, but then perhaps their common sense tells them; that size doesn’t matter.
In the case of business entities, historically most start out small. But in the era of IPO’s the imagery of future success has replaced the reality of actual performance. Yet despite inflated stock prices true value will always be represented by the ability to produce something that is needed and not merely desired or wanted.
It is not what the business is intrinsically worth that drives stock prices, but the anticipation of what it may be worth in the future. That future value is itself influenced by the perception of the customers of the business. Often what is produced or provided in the case of services, that consumers want or desire, is given precedence over needs.
Customers want, need and desire products and services. The reality is a combination of all three; want, need and desire.
Yet there is a countervailing albeit smaller group who don’t want, don’t need and don’t desire products and services. There focus is on the needs of other humans and not themselves.
Often want and desire are driven by external forces. Knowledge is one of those forces and perception the most powerful of those forces.
Needs are so natural as to escape personal notice except when those needs are not met to an extreme.
Often humans in societies that have been trained to want and desire, discount the value of what they need. Not that needs do not have value - but they are overlooked for wants and desires. What is needed to live is usually common and in ample supply.
Gambling is an example of a want and desire that often displaces need.
Due to the influence of group think aka conventional wisdom … the masses are easily swayed by media lies which take many forms.
The most influential lies are the media techniques of inclusion and exclusion. They influence our beliefs in a clandestine manner that injects some facts and implies many falsehoods. Also used often are the media techniques of emphasis and de-emphasis which are contrived to influence the beliefs of the audience. The perps are the corporatist managers and capitalist owners of the media and those who we see each day are complicit.
I have no answers for others as to what is right or wrong or true or not true. I am sometimes asked why I think the way I do.
This subject is expansive and for that reason I leave it with readers to draw their own conclusions.
Corporations tend to grow more inefficient as they become larger and larger. Somewhat akin to politics who you know has more value than what you know. Everyone is playing the game for profit.Their is no corporate soul or conscience. The wealth gap between management and workers grows as the ROI shrinks. Funny money or money raised from bonds and stocks is used to inflate the corporate hot air balloon.
Other peoples money (OPM) is wasted on elaborate corporate benefits and salaries. The incentive to succeed is dampened by emplyment contracts and golden or nowadays platinum parachutes.
Failure is inevitable on a societal level. Unfairness cannot exist perpetually alongside democracy.
Police brutality is only exposing the tyranny of the minority and fanning the flames of democracy.
One day soon as is the case now with congressional insider trading and the affordable health care act …. fairness and goodness will take hold.
Only when the majority catches on and rises up en masse will the perps be exposed and expelled.
That is about to happen.
