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Obsolete Social and
Business Models:
Because of the
exponential growth of technology and because
of human overpopulation, both of the major,
long-standing, business models are now
completely obsolete.
Growth of the
Economy as a Measure of Success:
Planet Earth is a
fixed, finite environment. We, the
collective we, have become so good at
exploitation that we are in the process of
killing ourselves with our capacity to exploit
and destroy. We must
move away from an open-ended, linear business
model in which everyone and everything is
exploited and in which products are produced
at a quality-level that's only one step above
trash. The present business model
is to produce almost-useless products designed
to fall apart and/or breakdown and sent to
landfill, there to be forgotten as if that
were the end of the story. The
manufactures and sellers then turn to selling
still another piece of almost-trash to the
consumer, all in the name of short-term
profit.
The fact that
everything is
re-cycled in one way or another is
completely ignored. There are no
exceptions to this universal law --
Everything is Recycled!
Environmental destruction and pollution produced during manufacturing and are also ignored.
Overall success is measured in terms of the growth of
the "Gross National Product."
Not only is "GNP" a false model, not only are
its statistics constantly manipulated, not
only is its very basis in direct opposition to
the nature of the Universe, it's simply
obsolete in four of the five major human
contexts -- in the social, political,
economic and environmental contexts. (Religion
is the fifth context.)
Profits as a
Measure of Success:
The second false and
incredibly destructive business model is to
measure a corporation's success by how much
short-term profit in produces for investors. Why
and how to replace this false business model
is exactly what this website is all about
--It's about
putting the New Corporate World Foundations
Win-Win Business Model into practice.
Human
Overpopulation Equals Disaster;
The Third and
equally-suicidal, false model is to plan for a
constant increase in human population and to
do nothing (socially acceptable
**msc1) about stabilizing
and/or reducing the human
population. On a finite planet,
this is simply impossible. We must
reach a long-term sustainable relationship
between humans and the environment.
Sooner or later, the human overpopulation
problem must be addressed. If we,
as humans don't resolve this problem, mother
nature will solve it for us.
When that day (or year) arrives, literally
billions (that's billions not millions) of
human beings will die.
Overpopulation is one of the most pressing
problem facing humanity today.
It's also one of the most completely ignored
problems. It amplifiers every
significant problem on the entire planet.
To understand the seriousness and the
consequences of overpopulation, readers are
directed to:
http://www.RedwoodForests.info/overpopulation.html#36
Personal
Activities:
It's appropriate for
us as individuals to recycle bottles, cans,
paper, and
the like, to use energy efficient
products, and to consider the environment in
our day-to-day activities.
Unfortunately, reversing global warming is
going to take much more than
that.
Present
Government:
We
cannot expect the U.S. government, as
currently structured, to do much because most
of the powerful politicians are owned and
controlled by short-sighted, special interest
groups who believe that destruction and
pollution are acceptable if they produce
short-term profits.
Corporate
Potential:
There are,
however, numerous corporations that have the
potential to make a huge difference and at the
same time generate significantly higher levels
of profit. In the present day,
there's a vast customer market looking for a combination
of: quality merchandise, personal
service, fair prices, honest vendors, and
environmentally friendly manufacturers.
A corporation that can deliver these criteria
to its customers is
going to be the leader in whatever industry it
is in.
The description
on these four pages is a summary of how to become
one of those corporations. As you
will soon see, it's actually incredible
simple. In order to figure out
what to do, lets first examine what not to do.
Setting
the Context
The corporations being
referred to in these pages are those that are
large and have chosen to sell stock in their
company to investors. There are
tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of
thousands of corporations that do not fit the
model we are describing herein. We
are referring primarily to corporation that
have shares bought and sold by investors whose
primary intent to make a profit, and to
those organizations whose main purpose is
money manipulation and financial wheeling and
dealing.
Typical,
Present-day Corporate
Behavior:
Corporate
Behavior ...
Unfortunately, under the current system,
corporate leaders are forced to focus on money
and give only minimal consideration to their
employees, to their customers, and to the
environment. For self-survival,
they must focus on money.
Why? Because corporations compete
with each other to get and maintain
investors. Return on investment is
the one and only investor incentive.
As
a result, the present context is one of cutthroat
competition -- the drive to maximize
short-term profits dominates and controls all activities
-- maximizing short-term profits is the one and
only rule for survival.
Regarding corporate
executives, their are no bad guys -- only
people doing what they feel that they must do
to survive. Some are stuck in a
negative rut, but that does not make them
bad. They are what we call the
sleepwalkers. They have no idea How the Universe
Functions.
The major corporations (as most
of them are presently being run) are
drug addicts. Their drug is
money. By their behavior ("by
their Fruits"), most corporation
tell us that they are single-focused
and that focus is money -- profits -- the
bottom line. They must look good in the next quarterly
report. By their actions,
they tell the world that their present
goal is to give minimum
service to the
customer -- to offer a
cheap, poor-quality
products at
the highest prices that the market will bear --
to do so for the single-minded
purpose of maximizing profits to their investors
-- to dodge
the responsibility for
dealing with the waste products they produce
-- to ignore the
health and needs of their employees
because that would cost money -- and to
ignore the environment
because that, too, would cost money. Caring for the
environment, if it's in their minds at all, is
at the bottom of factors
considered.
On the next
page, The New Corporate World
we'll show you how to
break that addiction. Before we do that,
it's important to see more clearly what not to
do.
An
Example of What Not to Do:
As an example, I'll
use Hewlett-Packard, the well known makers of
computer printers. The company is,
in my opinion, short-sighted,
environmentally callous, focused only on
money, extremely poor at providing
instructions with their products, and
deceptive in their product
promotions. As a customer, they provide
me with absolutely no personal service. (For
details on what this assessment is based on
and why I express this opinion, see the
section below: Notes and References-2.¹)
Product Quality:
The quality of most
consumer products
manufactured today falls into two categories
-- those that will last a moderate amount of
time and those that are one step above trash.
Except in the world of the individual
craftsmen and artists, the making high-quality products has all but
disappeared. Manufacturing
products with intentional obsolescence
and designing products so that they will
breakdown and need repair or replacement has become the
norm.
Why
Build Trash-level Products?
Because those who do
so do not understand How the Universe
Functions.
Making money for
investors is at their main
concern. Short-term profit is the
only goal.
The entire business
structure has become extremely
polluted. The wealthy and the
greedy have taken over the government and
changed the rules to favor the wealthy special
interests and to screw everyone else,
including the
environment.
Unbridled
Exploitation?
In the name of making
money, unbridled and irresponsible capitalism
endorsed and supported by government law has
produced political, financial, and
environmental disasters of unprecedented
proportions. Here are just
three examples among the hundreds that could be sited:
An Environmental
example can be found in what the coal
companies are doing right now in the Appalachian
mountains, and in what the money-focused
lumber companies are doing to the last three
percent of America's virgin
forests.
A political
example, can be found by looking at
what agents of the U.S. government did in
1954. They removed the
legally elected democratic leader in Iran and
installed a fascist, tyrannical dictator
in order to control Iranian oil.
That act and the follow-up supporting actions
have, over the years, escalated until today,
we face a holy war with Islamic
extremists.
A
financial example is the violation the
U.S. Constitution guaranteed gold
standard. By creating the Federal
Reserve (designed to give the banking industry
the ability to manipulate the U.S. monetary system) and
by removing the gold standard from our
currency, the con artists have been stealing
the value out of the dollar for over ninety
years. What cost one dollar
in 1913 now (2007) requires at least twenty five
dollars. The technique is called
deficit financing. The visual effect is
called inflation. The net result is taxation
of the poor and the middle class for
the benefit of the wealthy. This is a
clever, deceptive, way
of stealing money. It's a con
artist dream come true. It's the most
lucrative and long-lasting scam since the Roman Catholic
Popes stopped selling Indulgences.
Readers are directed
to four pages on TLC-Life-Center's Money-God Money
website:
 The Federal Reserve ' Fractional Reserves
Inflation
The Curse of Debt
You can find these
four pages at:
http://www.MoneyGodMoney.com#55
Continued
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The New Corporate World
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