[lbo-talk] capitalism is boring........

[Michael Dawson]

Isn't this mainly because upper corporate management is the money cops?
They are there to enforce capitalism, not to do productive work.  Veblen
called it "sabotage."


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> Miles Jackson wrote:
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> >
> > I've done a bit of statistical consulting and had some meetings with
> > upper management in both corporations and universities.  From what I
> > can see, they don't do the intellectually stimulating work; it's done
> > by the people below them in the bureaucratic hierarchy.  Yeah,
> > they have a vision, blah blah, but the day to day creative,
> > intellectual work is done elsewhere.  --In modern organizations,
> > the "intellectual deskilling" isn't the characteristic of the
> > lower level workers; it's the characteristic of upper management.
> 
> I would agree absolutely from my experience in hi tech. The problem is,
> you can't be creative without content. And the only people who handle
> content are the grunts and ...maybe...the first layer of management.
> Above that, it's pretty much all wanking and bean counting -- the ill
> effects of which, grunts have to be very creative about undoing.
> 
> Joanna
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