I don't know where this blog belongs; dieing in obscurity in the Long Tail. I'll try and find a focus..the header/logo was just too damn clever and inspired to let this go to waste.
Ceding Control pt. 2
"The Caring Capitalist - Video"
Employees at Brazilian manufacturing corporation (Semco) set their own wages, hours, and positions. No one is THE boss. Complete transparency allows everyone the ability to see every aspect of the corporations financial workings. Order is spontaneous; enforced by peer pressure. This highly decentralized business model has made syndicalists and free market proponents alike strange bedfellows.
There is a tinge of revolución in the air; it isn't a violent takeover or mere refashioning of the turrents on the citadel. Our ideas about labor are changing. Semco is the market reaction to the Corporation Man. We're bound to see more Semcos in many different forms.
Ceding Control
The less control we think we have over ourselves, the more we abritrarily cede control to authority. If we cannot do it ourselves we hope, even expect something else to do it for us.
Is this why we sit in cubicles doing mindless work we hate? Or is it necessity that causes us to cede control?
Wall Street is Nature...
...red in tooth and claw. Climbing to the top of the heap you collect filth off bodies on the way up. It doesn't matter that your covered in filth when you get to the top. Once there just being there is all that matters. Sit yourself ahead of the herd and atop the heap.
Corporation Man...
... is a lab rat?
"Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) have been kept in laboratories since sometime between 1840 and 1850. The modern laboratory rat belongs to a well-defined variety that differs from its wild progenitor in many ways. The laboratory rat is entirely dependent on the protected state of the laboratory where food, water, mate and shelter are provided, and the struggle for survival no longer exists. Among other differences, laboratory rats have smaller adrenal glands and less resistance to stress, fatigue, and disease than wild rats.
Thryoid glands have also become less active in laboratory rats, while, on the contrary, sex glands develop earlier and permit a greater fertility. They have smaller brains and are tamer and tractable than the active and aggressive wild rats. The genetic changes which occurred in the laboratory would, undeniably make them unable to compete successfully with wild rats in the environment in which the latter normally live."
Antony, Jay
Corporation Man
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