Ahhh Capitalism. They set up a system of subordination and complain that we subordinate.
Executives
Management
Workers
Three fundamental bodies in corporate America. People like to complain that workers are paid poorly precisely because they are subordinate. Even beyond that, they like to argue that they willingly subordinate themselves to their superiors. That they are lazy and undeserving of proper pay.
The system is designed to pay the subordinates poorly. It is designed to create an illusion that workers do not possess the capacity to self-govern. And the management and executives know their careers are built on a foundation made of sand. What do they do?
At least two things. First, they make the workers shore up their shifting and collapsing foundations. Second, they turn the workers against one another in competition in hopes that it distracts them from the fact that their superiors are not a necessary component of a prosperous working class.
This is not to mean that executive boards and managerial duties should not or cannot exist. They absolutely must exist in some capacity to negotiate the collective ship of worker interest. When we look at the worker cooperatives in places like Spain, we see executive boards populated by workers. The managers are workers. The executives finish a meeting and go back to the factories.
We do not need our corporate overlords any longer. We do not need to sell our labor wholesale.
We are workers of the world and it's about damn time we took back what is rightfully ours.
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Thank you for your well-phrased statement. It is very true that in the US income disparity is way out of balance and is ultimately very disruptive for the social fabric.
The original post is a typical rant that takes the common naive attitude that executive and management have no role. ("This is not to mean that executive boards and managerial duties should not or cannot exist. They absolutely must exist in some capacity to negotiate the collective ship of worker interest."
There is no evidence that I can find for the fantasy that "The executives finish a meeting and go back to the factories."
Quite the contrary. It does seem that executives and management have well defined jobs that are different from the "workers" and are akin to regular executive and management roles since they are paid substantially more than the workers.
