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Category: Corporate Confusion: We’re up to Our Necks in it.
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You’ve connived your way to the head of the table in the village. You’ve annexed a bunch of smaller villages and tribes. Maybe even seized some big ones. You are now ruling an empire! Congratulations. You’re on easy street now… I’m afraid I’ve got bad news sir. Ever notice how throughout history occasionally, some kid…
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Let us assume that neither utopia nor dystopia are on the cards for us working slobs. We are not going to work 1 or 2 hours a week and live lives of convenience and leisure. We hopefully are not going to live in a future with unprecedented poverty and unemployment; where there are only three…
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“I was born condemned to be one of those who has to see all sides of a question. When you’re damned like that, the questions multiply for you until in the end it’s all question and no answer. As history proves, to be a worldly success at anything, especially revolution, you have to wear blinders…
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Yes, this is the same place where two thirds of the place got wasted every other lunch break. But wait, there’s more!!! We have come a long way regarding workplace health and safety in the 25 years since I left this place – thank God! Believe it or not I left after 2 years without…
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“Poor man wanna be rich Rich man wanna be king And a king ain’t satisfied ‘Til he rules everything” Badlands – Bruce Springsteen What a man wants and what he is willing to do to get it are two very different things. There weren’t any lotteries in ancient times. If you wanted to live the…
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The promise was fantastic! Machines would do all the hard work, and we would have loads more free time. All the work that needed doing could be done faster with the help of technology. We could smash the required tasks faster and clock off. The same would apply to household chores and maintenance. All the…
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You were born into a working-class family. The middle sibling of three brothers. Your parents were no longer in love, but they got along. There were occasional arguments and some got very heated, but there was no violence. They both enjoyed a few drinks in the evening and a few more on the weekends. You…
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My first few jobs were non-union and while they weren’t slave labour conditions (thanks to industrial relations laws fought for and won by the union) we were much more at the whim of our supervisors and managers. Unions do not make assholes disappear, but they do restrain the damage and frustration they can wreak. I…
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A tribal settlement might grow to become a village and would probably have someone like a chief. If this village continues to expand and either merges or takes over surrounding settlements and villages it could well earn itself the title of kingdom! The chief who manages to convince the population that they are the rightful…
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Avatar (2009) ***spoiler alert*** (plus a massive bummer alert) This wasn’t James Cameron’s first foray into corporate greed, and I will definitely be covering Aliens in a future post. Sci-fi is such a brilliant way to critique the human condition when it is done well, using fantasy to tell the truth. This one is about…
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