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Aleksandar Malečić
312 days ago |
A successful businessman isn’t genetically superior to other people. He could in an alternative world die of thirst or hunger.
In multinational companies few people are supposed to think. If you live in the “third world” and work for a multinational corporation, you are expected to be creatively and intellectually inferior to your colleague from the basis. Since you are expected to advertise and sell and not to create, your access to information, competent people and resources will be limited. After all that pressure, you will really start to believe that your genes are worse.
On one hand, big companies have a lot of money, resources and people to realize new ideas. On the other hand, a limited number of people and nations are expected to have any ideas. If you do someone else’s job, including using a brain, you are an intruder. For this reason, and some others, corporations have a big inertia. Smaller companies are superior if the barrier for realization of a new idea is low (sometimes with a little help of new technologies).
One innovative approach to production of gods and services can be enough to provide high salaries for many people within a company. At least it’s how it works as long as competitors can’t copy and use it. Monetary economy as we know it creates competitors and, let’s say, enemies both within and out of a company. The whole system built this way used to work fine. In the modern world we have rich people becoming richer after every crisis. Their mere positions make them special to the rest of us. They compare salaries to each other and not to employees in their companies and the rest of the world and only the sky is the limit. The world is changing. Climate and political changes combined with limited natural resources and climate change are becoming a threat to an increasing number of people all around the world. Financial schemes, combinations and gambling are the source of global influence and power. Production, agriculture and empathy aren’t. This absurd is even bigger if the world is globalized. It seems that, in order to remain globally competitive, people from the third world will be forced to literally walk over dead bodies.
Companies involved in green technologies and renewable energy have inherited business as usual. Renewable energy is a radical innovation, different from an incremental innovation. In order to make it properly work, a big part of the system should be changed. The paradox is that competition can sometimes make the changes faster. Renewable energy resources are unstable and as such they need special contracts and mechanisms (similar to Walmart) to make them more efficient. On the other hand, it would be really bad if the new industrial revolution became a new source of social stratification and selfishness. We are talking here about some nasty possible scenarios caused by peak oil, overpopulation and limited natural resources and the possibility that the majority of global population will feel them. Profitable or not, air, water, food and natural resources are at the root of global society. If something happens to the root, a big number of “inferior” people will feel it.
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