In our now-failing United States economy, the true groundwork of the country is beginning to finally shine through. Now of course, the large business firms remain primarily unscathed, although the illusion of a “company collapse” may provide a “clean out” for the fatcats behind the excel spreadsheet numbers. The true disgust of this business model is that manual, physical labor has completely vanished from the elite management spectrum. Sure they make make an angry phone call, or offer their sacred opinions, but primarily attempt to rule psychologically and with information control.
This shift in the way that humanity operates has not only created an even wider rift between social classes, but it’s created an illusion of power. The term “power” in itself is a conceptual explanation for availability and apparent exercise of control over resources. Given that this fails, the individual is considered a failure with it. Constant maintenance and establishing possible outcomes of uncontrollable variables is the central operating force of this ideology. The failure of it is decentralization of the parties responsible for this. In layman’s terms – Where corporate structure and capitalism failed was in delegating tasks they couldn’t accomplish themselves. But they sure are good at crunching numbers.
Earlier in this century, kings of industry knew the parameters of any job they had assigned to anyone under them, or at a minimum hired a management position to delegate and maintain these positions. Innovation, industrialization, and creation flourished, then along came “micro-management”. The term “micro-management” is simply the most idiotic concept to date. We all find the term familiar, but what does the core of it convey? Let’s examine –
Micromanagement (via wikipedia.com):
micromanagement is a management style where a manager closely observes or controls the work of his or her subordinates or employees. Micromanagement generally has a negative connotation.
The problem?
Well, the “problem” is that workers spend X amount of minutes they could be using for labor creating a report, or tracking their statistics. Not only is the mind of the employee pre-occupied with tracking details for someone who is too fucking lazy to track it themselves, but productivity is cut annually due to the idiots spending X amount of days firing the guy who just happens to hate wasting his time on reports for lazy people, and keeping the lazy bastard who “just needs to focus more”. It’s asking you to fill the void of being a “manager” (subtley called something like “team leader”, because the coporation believes in “family”) , while milking the money you make for them. Kind.
Now of course, the economists argument for this is that “it rounds out”, or that “there is a balance to it”, yet no one’s been able to find that balance. The balance seems to be smooth talking slimeballs who are freaking out because of the crumble of their schemes. It’s actually quite ironic. As the American economy finally becomes focused and controlled by the few powerful elites, the people who can’t manage to live simply freak the hell out and grasp at straws, while people used to living simply don’t even seem to flinch. Strange.
