Words to Live By
“We invented a mountain of superfluous needs, shopping for the new, discarding the old. . . that is wasting our lives! When I buy something, or you do, you’re not paying for it with money. You’re paying with the time for living that you had to spend to earn that money, but with this difference: life is the one thing money can’t buy. Life only passes by. And it’s miserable to waste one’s life losing your freedom.”
What If Workers Could Hire and Fire Managers?
None of this is inevitable. Al of this is the result of choices made by society, choices that can be reviewed, discussed, revised and undone. These are systems we as humans create. There is no natural law or invisible hand that creates all this. We are the invisible hand. It is possible to build successful - very successful - businesses where managers and leaders are elected by employee owners of the companies. They already exist.