I just finished reading the Ghandi Reader, and one item in particular felt like a current topic to me.
Ghandi had declared that he did not like machinery that allowed a few people to ride on the backs of millions. That if machinery were to put people out of work, on the streets, and starving, while a few made more money, it was unsustainable.
It is amazing how much can be accomplished without any violence by simply not cooperating.
As we read and hear about troubled companies ….. companies that are supposed to be run for the common shareholder’s benefit, while filling a service to their clients ….. they have those two items that are an implied promise. A third should be to their employees. Companies love to shout the mantras of loyalty and team players, and they will mumble sorry as they tell you that you no longer have a job.
A small group of people are making millions of dollars, while letting everybody down. Are they not paid millions of dollars because they are supposed to be the smartest and most capable? How is it that they are considered to be somehow sacrificing by foregoing a bonus when they are paid unholy amounts of money in the first place, while others are losing their jobs? By the way, most of the people being laid off are probably trying to figure out how to pay the mortgage, and put food on the table, and do not have millions of dollars from previous years of pay to help with just that.
Most of us in this world are just average (myself included). Those who make the rules, and take on the highest paid jobs should be held accountable.
If only we had a modern day Gandhi who could lead us in the right direction.
A CEO of a company has no power at all ….. NONE ….. if the average person decides they are wrong, and stands together and demand that things must change or we will not support them in their effort to strip away the average person’s place in this world.
Thoughts? Ideas?
This should be a wake up call to the average person. That we will decide the future collectively. That we vote every day with our dollars. That we can re-engage with our neighbors and help each other in ways that lost income and tax dollars could never take away.
