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Strategies & Market Trends : ajtj's Post-Lobotomy Market Charts and Thoughts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ajtj99 who wrote (47324)	12/22/2021 1:26:48 PM
From: Sun Tzu	6 Recommendations Recommended By ajtj99 Arran Yuan Jacob Snyder Lee Lichterman III roto and 1 more member Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97597

On the first day of my MBA marketing class our prof asked who knows what marketing is. I answered, it is the science of making people feel inadequate and miserable. Everyone laughed and he conceded the point but rephrased it more positively. The point I am making is that we did not get where we are simply because of industrialization, oil, or whatever. We are here because there are armies of marketers that fan our innate greed (they call that incentives) while at the same time make us feel we must have useless goods and services. In my 20s and 30s I was single and I was making far more money than I needed...more than most large families needed. But I was not greedy. What I really wanted was a way to work only half as many hours so I can enjoy my life more. The realization that it was not possible set me on a road of social inspection with interesting epiphanies. Long story short, everyone is a cog in a money making machine with the sole purpose of making as much money as possible for the higher ups as possible. How much vacation you can have, how many hours you must work, and so on are all the function of this purpose. It doesn't matter how high up the food chain you are (except for the top 0.1%). I could see layers beneath me and layers well above me all working long hours. The pay grade changed, but the requirement to put in long hours and funnel as much money as possible up the chain did not. This was not always the case. When most people were masters of their trade and had autonomy, they could choose to work as much or as little as they wanted to (assuming they made enough to make a living). Somewhere along the lines we increased the standard of living and pretty much everyone is making enough to keep a roof over his head. But at the same time almost everyone lost that sense of mastery and autonomy.