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Originally Posted by Schwa
Actually, the problem with corporations, the USSR and today's worker unions is that they all have a top-down centrally controlled framework. A participatory economy avoids those pitfalls by using a framework based on a system of participation. If a decision only affect you, then naturally you control 100% of the decision making power, but if a decision affects more than just you, your 'vote' in that decision making process would be proportional to the degree that it affects you. That sort of framework is quite natural to humans, but we've been conditioned to believe that only 'qualified' people are capable of making certain decisions, even if they have a huge impact on our lives. Communism and corporations share a lot in common, and I don't like either because they both represent forms of unjustified totalitarian rule. Things will improve, I'm sure that the human spirit can overcome all forms of tyranny because a better world is always possible and I think everyone knows it deep down... Ethics will become the dominant force of the 21st century, you can already see it happening.
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Allow me to give my perspective to this subject. I have held many positions in my working career. I am now retired. I've worked as the lowest of the peon (picked cotton, washed dishes and scrubbed toilets) and up to managerial ranks. What I have found is that what appears to be the case with respect to workers and management is that many workers (line employees) are of the belief that management is out to put the screws to them. (some are). But there is no evidence of this at the domestic manufacturers. One can simply throw out all of the rhertoric of the "working class" and "management" and concentrate on the bottom line. The bottom line is that unless the fixed and ever increasing costs of funding the pensions and
especially medical care costs are somehow reined in, the domestics are doomed. One can't put a nickle into the vending machine and expect to get a dollar's worth of candy out of it. The next contract (if the domestics survive that long) will simply have to squeeze a good deal of these costs out or they will go under. That's the long and the short of it and it's just that simple.