Business schools need to teach ethics. They do not. The prevailing attitude/belief propagated by such folks is that people choose to be poor, therefore whatever happens to them is their own look out. The myth of Horatio Alger is still very strong. You can particularly see this in the banking professions treatment of immigrant people of color. They often get the loan, while African Americans? Well, not. This kind of stuff supports the illusion of fairness and keeps the ball of intergroup oppression rolling. The very few that do make it are seldom humble about it, seldom accurate in their assessment of themselves and their extraordinary good luck. The asinine notion that anyone can earn an obscene amount of money prevails. This value, which is raping the world and creating illness and death everywhere, is still held to be the highest. If you think otherwise you are either a sap or a socialist. Occasionally a politician will make political hay out of the poor while the media is frequently shallow and missing in news and in meaningful assessment. A politician in the age of Nixon for example, a mayor from Chicago I believe, pulled the stunt of moving into a very beleaguered project and living on food stamps for a week, then publishing an account of how thrifty she was easily able to do this. Poverty, real poverty, as in living on the brink of hunger, homelessness, unable to pay for the doctor or dentist, unable to afford any kind of training that could get you out of poverty, is completely debilitating. People in poverty are literally not able to plan past surviving the moment. Lack of compassion, empathy, insight and access to any real education, keeps the rich ignorant and evil, and is given a free pass by those who can plan and act. It remains to be seen if younger generations will put up with this. Can afford to put up with this.
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 10:10:03 +0000
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