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In reply to the discussion: Revolution anyone? This is for those among us that think we can always fall back on revolution. [View all]johnlucas
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You assume that I say our businesses should be run like their businesses.
That's not what I'm talking about when I say ruthlessness.
What is needed is a chief who is not attached to money to make this work.
He/she can live on very little personally & the money his/her business brings in is for the cause he/she fights for.
Isn't Costco an example of business being run the right way?
Let me know if I'm using the right store. I forget if it's Publix or Costco.
You don't HAVE to mistreat your workers to achieve your aims & your business will be a living example of that.
And here's the thing. There are so many people abused by this system that you would have legions of people willing to build this business.
Hell, just recruit outside of every unemployment office & temp agency.
Straight up pull people off the street. Hire 'em from a homeless shelter.
The people are there & they are legion.
Because of those legions you can spread your businesses throughout the country quickly.
Word will get out how great the conditions are at your companies & you can't KEEP people away.
Better yet train your staff to start their own businesses following your model.
It will be a sea change within the country as your way of doing business more & more becomes the norm.
The ruthlessness I'm talking about comes from crushing those businesses (and the people who run them) that operate the bad way with your sheer numbers.
To force buyouts. To shrink them in the market so severely to perform hostile takeovers.
What would happen if someone could force a buyout on Monsanto?
To force Rupert Murdoch to drop News Corp.?
To have the Koch Brothers sell off stakes in their leagues of businesses for pennies on the dollar?
And to poison their chances to start elsewhere?
To take these assets & use them in a BENEFICIAL way?
Using Business in this Big Business-run society to reform that society.
Economic & social revolution.
No need for picket signs & protests.
Create a vehicle that will actualize the change right before your eyes.
They complain about socialism?
Run your business the socialist's way & outdo their capitalist businesses.
And each time they come out with talking points, you show them that balance sheet full of sales & profits.
Shut 'em up with the facts.
This is also why we need to get more control over media.
That way they can't brainwash people against their own interests.
I'm not so concerned about the behavior towards ill-behaved business types.
I'm concerned with the results.
And that reluctance to beat 'em with their own tactics is why we remain on the outside looking in.
I'm not buying that 'meek will inherit the earth' claptrap.
TAKE the earth from these suckers!
ACTIVE not PASSIVE.
John Lucas