Krugman really hit it with a few words today. I admire his brevity of expression. Wish I had some expertise in that mode of communication but I am only talking to myself here and have (too much) time on my hands to do it as well as the fact that it (amuses) interests me and keeps my mind from atrophying even while my swim, bike and run muscles are....
Krugman said here:
All About the Patriarchy
There’s a strand of thought — I identify it especially with Corey Robin,
although he’s not alone — that says that conservatism isn’t really
about the things it claims to be about. It isn’t really about free
markets and moral values; it’s about authority — the authority of bosses
over workers, of men over women, of whites over Those People.
Score one on the morality front: Pat Robertson, stern moral lecturer, says that it wasn’t Petraeus’s fault because “he’s a man”.
Score one on the morality front: Pat Robertson, stern moral lecturer, says that it wasn’t Petraeus’s fault because “he’s a man”.
The comments that follow at the web site has some quality of thought that says something about those that read his blog as well as elaborate on what he said. They are dialog of many responses to what he said. Mostly they are excellent at giving good food for thought.
For Example:
quote:
- Doodle
- Fort Myers
I
think being authoritarian is still a by line or a front, big money
elite used to hijack conservatism with. If we look at the policy
positions of conservatism and the people that support these positions
with lots of resources, it's always only about one thing: money, and the
power to get more money. They like to talk about free market because
big money skews the free market to their favor and they do not want
Uncle Sam or anybody else intervening.
As for morality, that's just completely fake. How could they talk about morality when they can fleece the workers dry or defraud the consumers anyway they can if they can just have deregulate away all that pesky worker and consumer protection laws."
Examination of the reason for being applied to a business enterprise, and they should do this periodically if they intend to survive is based on these two questions:
What business do we think we are in?
What is the real business we are in?
When there is competition they better have a real honest answer for both. With little or no competition or a rigged market place the exercise is not even necessary if business is good but may be of benefit if there is some more to gain with tweaking the business model up to but not beyond the point of negative returns. Otherwise known as killing the goose that lays those wonderful golden eggs.
The enterprise's question of what business are we really in is either something they want to publicly promote as well as structure their company to provide in the most efficient effective manner as their product. (Progress Is Our Most Important Product - GE) or when they identify their real business, its product, how they produce it and for what purpose they stamp the whole analysis and plan as Top Secret, Eyes Only, and put it in a secure safe. They know what the business they are really in is in fact. They the evidence of that knowledge in a safe because it is not what their customers that buy their product think it is. Only the top executives know the real deal, the structure of the business, its methods, metrics and what selling their product really gets them in return.
As for morality, that's just completely fake. How could they talk about morality when they can fleece the workers dry or defraud the consumers anyway they can if they can just have deregulate away all that pesky worker and consumer protection laws."
Examination of the reason for being applied to a business enterprise, and they should do this periodically if they intend to survive is based on these two questions:
What business do we think we are in?
What is the real business we are in?
When there is competition they better have a real honest answer for both. With little or no competition or a rigged market place the exercise is not even necessary if business is good but may be of benefit if there is some more to gain with tweaking the business model up to but not beyond the point of negative returns. Otherwise known as killing the goose that lays those wonderful golden eggs.
The enterprise's question of what business are we really in is either something they want to publicly promote as well as structure their company to provide in the most efficient effective manner as their product. (Progress Is Our Most Important Product - GE) or when they identify their real business, its product, how they produce it and for what purpose they stamp the whole analysis and plan as Top Secret, Eyes Only, and put it in a secure safe. They know what the business they are really in is in fact. They the evidence of that knowledge in a safe because it is not what their customers that buy their product think it is. Only the top executives know the real deal, the structure of the business, its methods, metrics and what selling their product really gets them in return.
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