myth of upward mobility

[Carl Remick]

>From: Jim Farmelant
>
>And one might add this relatively egalitarian income distribution that is 
>characteristic of Scandinavia is in large part the legacy of vociferous and 
>even violent class struggles that were fought by Scandinavian workers back 
>in the 1920s and 1930s. Given the fact that the USSR was not too far away, 
>the ruling classes there saw that the negotiation of compromises with the 
>workers was in their best long term interests.

I'm always amazed how the mentality of Corporate America changed utterly 
following the collapse of Soviet Union.  As a corporate writer, I can recall 
laboring long over documents that were soulful expressions of "corporate 
social responsibility."  Then the next I knew, presto!  The Wall came down, 
any pretense of corporate social responsibility went out the window and the 
"Winner Takes All" society arrived in a twinkling.  The CEOs who had been 
proclaiming their sense of social stewardship, fiduciary obligation and 
whatnot suddenly had a new operating principle:  "You have arms, you take."

Carl
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