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Executives used to be stewards of the company. They took care of brand, and people.
Then we switched to a bottom line focus. Now, profit, stock prices are the only thing that matters.
Shortcuts, layoffs, benefit cuts, etc are the only way to offset not making continuous market growth, and still rack ridiculous profits.
Also, great deal of Americans started not giving a shit about where the product comes from or who makes it. We want the cheapest thing, fast. Just has been our personal priorities.
There’s not much incentive for a company to consider it’s corporate image, contributions to community and public, etc.
Man we’ve lost something along the way. When did our jobs become purely a means of money and contributing nothing to society.
When society began treating people as an exploitable resource.
I always found the name of the department “Human Resources” quite demeaning.
100 percent. My work is treated as a commodity. Why wouldn’t I consider the company one as well?
The exact moment the employer only cared about money and not its employees or contributions to the society.
Mine turned into that when it stopped paying enough to provide me with basic needs.
If it’s fuck me, then it’s fuck all y’all too.
Probably around the time they took away pensions
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This mythic past where our jobs meant “more than money” and we “contributed to society” never existed anywhere
When they started treating employees and disposable cogs to be exploited.
Executives used to be stewards of the company. They took care of brand, and people.
Then we switched to a bottom line focus. Now, profit, stock prices are the only thing that matters.
Shortcuts, layoffs, benefit cuts, etc are the only way to offset not making continuous market growth, and still rack ridiculous profits.
Also, great deal of Americans started not giving a shit about where the product comes from or who makes it. We want the cheapest thing, fast. Just has been our personal priorities.
There’s not much incentive for a company to consider it’s corporate image, contributions to community and public, etc.
I’d say that’s when.
When capitalism. That’s when.