| I understand. It's unfair and hard. Business. I have been thinking about business being business for a long time. Let me tell you a vision of a better future. I am not explaining how to get there, just what is in this future. Business will not have changed a lot. But people! People have a lot better means of living. Most needs are covered. This changes the power relationship between people and business. Business becomes sort of a game. You can lose but it's just a game. The main rules of this game are: 1. follow law and mores
2. be bound by contracts to have earnings and spendings
3. earnings ≥ spendings
If you violate these rules for too long a time and too heavily, your business will be booted. It's a harsh game.This rule of business has been in force already thousands of years ago. Barter superfluous stone knives against food, for example. And today this game can have inhuman consequences as we see here. Parent's business is trying to work around that they suddenly a team dropped out. Software stopped being delivered. As a consequence they are afraid that earnings can't be realized. In a strategic game it's clear that something needs to be done or they get booted. And some people today fail to see this aspect. They complain that business is greedy and inhuman. They ask that companies should be "human". But it's my conviction that business is a worthwile and important game benefitting the society. As long as business is bound to sensible law like forbidding hurting people (for example by overworking them or exposing them to unhealthy conditions), business should be free to do business. Therefore we shouldn't change business a lot but give people better means and therefore more power and independence. If a business fails it's just losing a game round. This can hurt but everybody should be able to get up again and have another chance. It's just a vision of a better future. |