The True Kingdom of Heaven: Democracy in the workplace

[der_kommissar]

Nitro, just because you may be a Marxist doesn't mean you can't make trenchant observations. I actually agree with you on the issue of dividing the spoils of our capitalist system. I would phrase it differently, but we agree its not equitable for virtually all increases in the country's wealth be grabbed by those at the very top. But I see it mainly as an issue of corporate governance. As much as I hate to advocate for the government to regulate salaries, the current system has gone off the rails. Maybe we legislate a maximum CEO to entry level salary multiple. That would give them an incentive to raise entry level salaries.

We need a law that if the government bails your company out, the top execs all get fired, no exceptions, and they are referred for criminal investigation.

We know traditional Bush republicans will never go for this kind of stuff. That's a big reason we are done with them.

Or maybe we reform the central bank policy of targeting asset prices. (Granted, it can only work if all central banks faced similar pressures and reforms). You will notice that this ratio of avg worker to CEO pay went parabolic around the time stock prices also went parabolic.

I'd also argue that the "merger's trend" over how many years now has reduced competition dramatically giving those remaining conglomerate's near monopoly status (hence outsized CEO compensation). A more vigorous application of anti-trust and/or vigilance in preventing all of these mini-monopolies forming and creating absurdly predatory pricing.

 

[der_kommissar]

Nitro is waxing nostalgic for his days back in the commune. Until it went broke.

And in the meantime he consumes most of his waking hours trying to figure out how to extract money from others accounts...None of these Marxist, leftist drone's pass the smell test.

 

[java]

As I mentioned, Marxism is in the main a form of analysis.

Kudos to you getting through those heavy tomes (if you really did read them, wink wink).

Like I said, I'm still looking for the beginning to Das Kapital, I already know how it ends.

 

[Ricter]

Like I said, I'm still looking for the beginning to Das Kapital, I already know how it ends.

Ahh, so you haven't read it. No worries, most haven't.

 

[nitro]

Ahh, so you haven't read it. No worries, most haven't.

These guys don't even know the meaning of many of these ideologies, nor the nuances in their differences, how they came about, or how even today they are making a monster comeback the world over. Their education (brainwashing) stopped in junior high school, where instead they turned to that scientific historically accurate document called the Bible.

They don't know if an (or even which) economic system is compatible with which governing systems. They don't understand how many of these ideas lead to millions of people fighting and dying for their freedom in China and Russia, and how they affect Nordic countries today, in a far more logical and humane hybrid system.

Poland just went frighteningly "communist" in I don't know how long. Pay attention to Italy, Spain, etc.

Brexit is but a tiny tiny part of what is going on worldwide, because people are coming to the conclusion, with their own two eyes, that Capitalism as we practice it today is an unstable system that doesn't work for vast vast vast majority of the people.

 

[nitro]

They don't even know where/why the Statue of Liberty came from. Probably just appeared overnight in the harbor built by Trump.

 

[nitro]

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

They don't even know where/why the Statue of Liberty came from. Probably just appeared overnight in the harbor built by Trump.

Whaddya mean?

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

These guys don't even know the meaning of many of these ideologies, nor the nuances in their differences, how they came about, or how even today they are making a monster comeback the world over. Their education (brainwashing) stopped in junior high school, where instead they turned to that scientific historically accurate document called the Bible.

They don't know if an (or even which) economic system is compatible with which governing systems. They don't understand how many of these ideas lead to millions of people fighting and dying for their freedom in China and Russia, and how they affect Nordic countries today, in a far more logical and humane hybrid system.

Poland just went frighteningly "communist" in I don't know how long. Pay attention to Italy, Spain, etc.

Brexit is but a tiny tiny part of what is going on worldwide, because people are coming to the conclusion, with their own two eyes, that Capitalism as we practice it today is an unstable system that doesn't work for vast vast vast majority of the people.

Only Nitro and Bernie truly understand what needs to be done. And of course, Pochontas Warren.

 

[nitro]

Say YES to worker-owned Cooperatives. Say NO to Corporations.

Flatten the corporate structure by going cooperative. Democratize it.