Why employees can't launch new businesses
5:00
If we were truly honest, we would freely and openly admit that we live and work under a "forced labour regime." Under this regime, everyone is "forced" to provide a certain amount of labour, in order to receive certain goods and services from society.
Abraham Lincoln said in 1859 that a man should work hard in order to accumulate capital, and then use that capital to buy the means of production so that he can launch a venture and, in turn, hire other people to work as labour. And the cycle then repeats itself, with the new working people saving enough capital to launch their own thing.
Yet, this is obviously not happening for most people. Even people who are able to save money, somehow don't have the inclination or drive or creativity to launch their own business.
I asked myself why, and I think I found the answer.
In a corporate job, your vision and your scope of responsibilities are so narrowly defined that you tend to develop tunnel vision. Worse, you neglect to see the big picture and your creative faculties are not being utilized. As they say, what we don't use, we lose.
As a result, most employees do not have the creativity to create new products or services, let alone new business models.
It seems as though the corporate job system were designed so that employees become more and more dependent on their employers (since they cannot create new value or launch their own venture).
If we were truly honest, we would freely and openly admit that we live and work under a "forced labour regime." Under this regime, everyone is "forced" to provide a certain amount of labour, in order to receive certain goods and services from society.
Abraham Lincoln said in 1859 that a man should work hard in order to accumulate capital, and then use that capital to buy the means of production so that he can launch a venture and, in turn, hire other people to work as labour. And the cycle then repeats itself, with the new working people saving enough capital to launch their own thing.
Yet, this is obviously not happening for most people. Even people who are able to save money, somehow don't have the inclination or drive or creativity to launch their own business.
I asked myself why, and I think I found the answer.
In a corporate job, your vision and your scope of responsibilities are so narrowly defined that you tend to develop tunnel vision. Worse, you neglect to see the big picture and your creative faculties are not being utilized. As they say, what we don't use, we lose.
As a result, most employees do not have the creativity to create new products or services, let alone new business models.
It seems as though the corporate job system were designed so that employees become more and more dependent on their employers (since they cannot create new value or launch their own venture).
posted by Super Peter at 11:26 AM
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