" And to compete in the business community, you'll find
yourself having to treat others - your employees - as much like slaves as you can get away with. Pay them as little as they'll tolerate and give them no say in anything, because that's what's most efficient and profitable. Money
is the absolute standard. Freedom, and the dignity and well-being of one's fellow creatures, simply don't figure in the basic formula."
This is patently untrue based on my own personal experience but forget me, to just cite two of the many famous examples that immediately come to mind:
1) Zappos gives their employees complete freedom in how to do their job and has succeeded wildly.
2) Google pays their employees quite a bit in salary and perks and is one of the most successful companies in the world.
The whole piece is full of claims that are provably false and claims about how it is impossible to fix it. Sure, many companies treat their employees like cogs in a machine. I worked for one. Then I started my own company to do things differently and I was able to. It wasn't easy but compared to anywhere else in the space-time continuum I feel like we, in 2011 in the United States, are in one of the best environments for entrepreneurship.
They are examples that it can be done. The entire tone of the article is defeatist with the author arguing that it cannot be done.
For example: "you'll find yourself having to treat others - your employees - as much like slaves as you can get away with"
No. You won't find yourself having to do anything like that. There are well known companies that don't do that and make tonnes of money. That is what I am arguing.
Just noticed (1990) in the title. I am not sure it was there before. Either the title was updated or I missed it. In any case, the article makes more sense if you take that into account.
This is patently untrue based on my own personal experience but forget me, to just cite two of the many famous examples that immediately come to mind:
1) Zappos gives their employees complete freedom in how to do their job and has succeeded wildly.
2) Google pays their employees quite a bit in salary and perks and is one of the most successful companies in the world.
The whole piece is full of claims that are provably false and claims about how it is impossible to fix it. Sure, many companies treat their employees like cogs in a machine. I worked for one. Then I started my own company to do things differently and I was able to. It wasn't easy but compared to anywhere else in the space-time continuum I feel like we, in 2011 in the United States, are in one of the best environments for entrepreneurship.