The world has become consumed by the idea that growth at all cost is good. It’s normalised now.
Businesses should simultaneously make record profits and lay people off to make more profits, human populations should grow grow grow, growth mindset, deregulate for growth, consume all resources for growth. It’s all about this quarters results.
Another way of looking at is uncontrolled growth is cancerous. It consumes the host, until the host dies.
It has probably gone past that stage though.
We had the growth at any cost stage, now we have the oh shit we tried to grow too fast and too much so now we have to eat each other to survive stage.
In my case, the company I have worked for, for 20 years, attempted to install a new enterprise wide system, costing millions, in order to improve the service so that much fewer people were needed.
Then they messed it it, so it was costing about a million a day due to problems.
Then they had to lay off lots of people anyway, because they couldn’t afford it.
Then those who were left did fire fighting, installed inefficient workarounds.
In big business, it’s a case of a revolving door of directors.
A Director comes along, gets paid lots of money to join a company, gets paid lots of money to fuck it up, gets paid lots of money to leave.
They go out the door, one comes in. Blames everything on the last director, says they will do things differently.
They generally all say the same things and all fuck it up.
People tend to credit people high up in big companies, with a lot more intelligence and competence than they really have.
Not everyone of course, I certainly did. When I was younger I was more along the lines of conspiracy thinking. It does exist to some extent, but generally I found through the years that people in high places are barely in control of a system that runs on incompetence.
Kevin Beaumont
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