Unfortunately, unbridled Capitalism -- the type that neither Adam Smith or Ayn Rand taught -- teaches and exasperates narcissism, manipulation, and greed...that is why I call it 'Narcissistic Capitalism'...
University business programs need to re-focus, or focus more, on teaching good work and business ethics...
I love to see it when I find good, sound, ethical business men and women out there -- people who are looking for 'win-win solutions to customer and employee problems -- in a dominantly narcissistic captitalist world of dog-eat-dog... a world of employers squeezing the last possible buck out of their customers, a world of employers squeezing their employees wages down as low as they possibly can until the employee has to find a second job, or a different job, elsewhere...and a world of angry customers and employees who feel 'ripped off'', and who often find different, imaginative ways of putting a 'proverbial wrench in the assembly line' before they finally march off and take their business and/or work skills elsewhere...
Give me the employer who knows how to treat his or her employees and customers well, and give me the employees and customers that respond in kind with respect, caring, and loyalty....
And you get the idea of what I am trying to promote here in terms of 'Ethical Dialectic-Humanistic-Existential Capitalism'...
It is a situation where, ideally, all relevent parties participating in a particular business venture, benefit from this business venture -- the employer, the employee, and the customer -- with no 'hidden collusions', no 'undemocratic behind the scene negotiations', no 'price fixing or price gouging', and an ongoing situation where all relevant employers, employees, and customers want to keep on doing business with each other...want to engage in 'ethical, humanistic-existential business transactions', and in this regard, actually care about each other...
Am I living in an idealistic, unrealistic dream-world?
Or is this a realistic, achievable idealistic -- and realistic -- vision and goal...
That the right ethical people can all help to make happen?
-- dgb, Sept. 9th, 2010,
-- David Gordon Bain
-- Dialectic Gap-Bridging Negotiations...
-- Are Still in Process...
