The Role of Hierarchical Administration (top down approach) The modern corporate structure is hierarchical, such that decisions are made at the top and flow down through descending ranks of company officials, until the lowest ranking workers are the ones who actually carry out the commands. This also is a flawed (faulty) structure because it results in a disassociation between human goals and the willingness to carry out the actions required to attain the goals. Such a disassociation will always result in destructive actions since the individual who makes the decision to carry out the action does not have to bear the burden of any negative aspects of the action itself. The simplest proof is in war, where high ranking politicians and generals are able to commit the lives of millions of soldiers for the sake of questionable objectives. If their own goals or political aspirations can be enhanced by sacrificing these soldiers, they will not hesitate. The same flawed (unsound) decision making process will apply to the corporate president who decides to wipe out a forest for the sake of lumber (load) profits. The top executive does not have to bear any discomfort at all for his decision. In fact he will be rewarded for it because such a decision will profit his company. This hierarchical decision process and its inherently destructive results are in complete contrast to a free market system. The natural free market economy is self limiting, and does not cause large scale destruction because there is no means to incentivize or force large groups of people to carry out the undesirable commands of an elite few. For example, in a free market economy, in which individuals own the land and the resources, no family would consider poisoning their own land or cutting down all their trees for the sake of short term profits. The corporate economy, by contrast, encourages the destruction of the environment for the sake of short term profit. In summary, it is the authors contention that the hierarchical organization of power structures such as governments and corporations will always result in decisions which are made to profit a very few at the expense of the rest of the world, such that they will eventually destroy the civilization. By contrast, in a natural free market economy in which individuals and families have a personal stake in the resource base, and in which individuals and families have to expend personal effort and risk to accomplish any significant project, then the destructive effects of human greed will be self-limiting by virtue of the fact that the same people who decide on the destructive activity will have to balance their ambition against the personal risk and effort required to obtain their goals. The author’s purpose in this discussion is to show the inherent flaw and self destructive nature of the corporate economy and its power structure. Once a corporate economy becomes prevalent, it can have only one outcome, and that is that those who control it will ravage the population and the environment for the sake of increasing their own profit. For the greedy, the money motive..
Posted on: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 03:53:03 +0000