The principle here is very basic and applies whether a company has a thousand or a hundred thousand employees. It is by no means irrelevant. You see, when a guy leads a company of people who he understands are most essentially like himself and who also share his views on essential right and wrong, the moral kinship makes it difficult for him to view the workers as mere cogs in an economic wheel. After all, the employer already understands that the employees are essentially like himself, that they even share the same basic values. Since they are like him and he knows it clearly, he will tend to more easily trust them. Amongst his primary aims will be the aim to protect and help them because by doing so he protects his own nature.
On the other hand, when he holds fundamental values that differ radically from his employees, and when he even sees himself as somehow fundamentally different from them, then there is little basis left for him to find value in them other than via money, more specifically how much money they can produce. Money, of course, is always a very great factor in labor relations (after all, money is life in token form), but where strong moral kinship exists, money is not by far the most significant factor. Moral kinship compels business leaders to endure quite a lot of pain if by doing so it promises to protect subordinates. Where moral kinship is decreased, willingness to suffer for others is also decreased until the acquisition of money remains by far the most significant factor in the relationship. When this happens, business leaders accept some of the most destructive practices and partner with people who possess some of the most perverted values, so long as the involved parties can agree that the preservation of money is most important. Leaders can do this because the notion of kinship and extra-monetary value has been eliminated.
That is where Americans are. It is why during the Clinton Administration Americans openly declared that the principles of marital faithfulness, faithfulness to country, faithfulness to American laws, are all considerably less significant than ‘doing your job’ (i.e. making money). It is why Americans so easily accept homosexuality and other extreme perversions of humanity. The extra-monetary values that once universally defined American life now scarcely exist and so, contrary to all American history, homosexuality is now permissible.
It is unreasonable for leftists to demand that business leaders think differently than they do about this. Appealing to technical citizenship and such hogwash in order to try and convince leaders to deny themselves profits is just hypocritical and stupid. Money is the supreme American value, just as leftists have declared. Everyone knows this. So, like the rest of Americans, business leaders have abandoned moral kinship to chase what is most important – money. That is why jobs are flowing away from the country and why appeals to citizenship are at the height of meaninglessness. |
