free lunch

[punaticbychoice]

And average working and middle class people are left to fight over the crumbs.That's the other point.

[Orchidlandguy]

Think that is what we call employment (joke)[]

[David M]

Magic cookies I guess - just appear out of thin air.

David

Ninole Resident

[punaticbychoice]

I sometimes think of the meaning of words like: employed or adjusted.
Well adjusted employee- sounds like a well adjusted tool to me- or at least that's what I visualize.
Just a thought.

[punaticbychoice]

Not magical- other people grew the grain, sugar etc., more people transported , baked and delivered the finished cookies to the table. The CEO just takes at the end.
And the tea partier and the union guy are left to fight over 1 of a dozen cookies that people like the tea partier and the union guy made. Call it a joke or a parable.

[mdd7000]

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Originally posted by punaticbychoice

The CEO brought nothing to the table - just took, and took.
That's the point.

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Without the CEO to provide guidance, would there have been as many employees in the first place?

[punaticbychoice]

I've never known a CEO to have provided any "guidance".
In answer to your question, yes there would be.
The business elite is much overrated by our culture.

[David M]

Fighting ignorance is ..... never mind, one need an open mind.

Ninole Resident

[punaticbychoice]

I have owned small companies, and worked for large corporations, I do investment analysis.
I am most certainly not ignorant about this subject. And I make money betting against these fools.
The business elite particularly in the finance and energy sectors both in the US and internationally is profoundly ignorant and shortsighted.
To repeat: the business elite is overrated.

[punaticbychoice]

There are a few members of the business elite that must be given credit for living up to the billing however.
I may not agree with them, but they were /are competent.
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: created much of the content of our lives today.
Larry Bossidy: turned a really messed up Allied Signal into today's Honeywell International.
Allan Mulally: the current Ford turnaround.
And of course in a past generation, Lee Iacocca at Chrysler.