If the only motive (propelling) force is money what society, workplaces etc. does this create? Are we making a better job with this motive force (something power and career people "firmly" believe is a drive for all people)? I wonder if (all) people are only driven by money as the main motive force? But all people need and are entitled to live a decent life.
Is this motive force (money) a good motive force for making a good job? Are we making a better job when we are rewarded with more money than our colleagues? Are we making a better job today then we did earlier (when we didn’t have individual salary or wage)? I don’t think I do. And maybe that has reasons.
What happens when people realize that they have been striving for something that will probably never occur? That they are trapped in a life where they have to work till they fall dead down? Is this freedom or slavery (serfdom)? A modern form of serfdom and slavery?
How will they react if and when they realize that other people at the same time retire at an early age (in their fifties for instance) with a much higher material standard?
How do they react when they realize that if you land in different life circumstances it hasn’t with competence to do? Or does it have with competence to do?
Is the society encouraging sound drives in people I also wonder?
And the people in power are loyal to each other (networking).
If one generalizes: loyalty, solidarity is something women devote themselves to and are interested in, men compete instead. But I don’t think we are born this way.
The grassroots are caught by helplessness and resignedness (but from where do those feelings originate? So would it be possible doing something about them?).
What would sound drives be?
Society is encouraging unsound forces in people I would assert. And this leads to the kind of inequality we see all over the world. Leads to the enormous cleavages between people.
A voice in
“Wanja Lundby-Wedin is made scapegoat for dissatisfaction, anxiety and indignant feelings that have become ripped open in the paths of the financial crisis. What has she done?
She has as a member of the board for AMF [insurance company, administering retirement money] approved of a ‘juicy’ retirement agreement to a former CEO.
A fact that has been available for reading in the company’s annual report for many years – as a Sverker Sörlin pointed to in Dagens Nyheter [a big newspaper here] but something nobody have breathed about earlier. It has been possible for all those capable of reading from the book to acquaint themselves with these facts [they haven’t been hidden. But I wonder, where have the press and media been? And why haven’t they reported about this? Because they take on the power’s businesses?].
But now, when people are losing their jobs and greedy CEOs are allowed to wind (fawn) and pretend that they are giving up their giant bonuses, then one go for Wanja, who as the chairwomen for Swedish Trade and Union Confederation ought to know better [and yes, in a way she ought to??]. Where all other people have been blind she should have seen. She hasn’t grabbed anything for her own sake, she has only, as all other up there, failed to adjust to a slower speed in a bolting capitalism. For this she is hated and has to become removed while the overpaid capital and trade and industry elite remain sitting biding their time.
Financial crisis, losing ones job and bonuses isn’t Wanja’s fault. Our society’s mentality isn’t her fault. My thought is the more the man on the street shuts him/herself off from the public affairs, from the local politics and doesn’t engage her/himself –in the school and care, in how people are living, jobs and the distribution from the fruits of the society – the distance to those in power, who are power professionals will increase and that’s why we are getting all those things such as bonuses and fantasy agreements.
I think our society is suffering from a political but also trade and union lack of interest and a lack of engagement from the general public.
When people leave walk-over to the power we have gotten a societal climate where the cream of those in power believe they can do whatever they like, because they don’t get any feedback from reality until it’s too late [this was pretty kindly said, quite ironically. Do they care about the man on the street, generally? Of course I think there can be and are exceptions]. And not until fantasy pensions and bonus agreements are known to people, in the gloomy light of a financial crisis, one gets upset and start to tell people off in letters to the press and voting on the net.”
Yes, the power is networking, but what are we, the men and women on the street, doing?
And why?
It has been shown that the social mobility has been greater in the Scandinavian countries (with a strong welfare state) than in countries like Great Britain and USA. See here, here and here (the first two texts are in Swedish, but maybe possible to translate and the third is in English, from New York Times).
My blogpostings have been looking very strange for a long time. But I haven't had time figuring out what it has been about. It looked much better when I started blogging. This has been really disturbing, because actually I care how my blogs are looking. I get the message that my HTML-code isn't accepted... But I have been capable of posting anyway.
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