The CB Collective - Business Management Psychology and the Labor Theory of Value
The Business Schools across the Homeland, even at institutions of higher learning that are otherwise more or less credible in some subset of their academic proffers, are into psychology. The over arching goal of business psychology is bifurcated, that is, the horns of the bifurcation include the promotion of both harmony and increased productivity in the workplace.
Harmony in the politically correct workplace, the presumptive scholars at the business schools are taught, is engendered from the recognition that everyone is way different but the same anyway and that’s OK. Though the workers are all different, but fundamentally the same, each worker can, with a little psychology, get up to speed when it comes to teamwork. All the worker has to do is come to grips with those personal feelings and recognize that the other workers have personal feelings too. Once all the workers get in touch with their personal feelings and learn about the personal feelings of others and how all those personal feelings interact, harmony is established and teamwork can proceed, efficaciously. So the scholars are taught how to get in touch with their own personal feelings and how to become keen observers of others so that they will know how the other workers are feeling once they, the scholars, actually go to work, at a job, hopefully, at the minimum, as a middle level manager.
How do the scholars learn about their own personal feelings? Easy that, they take a bunch of tests, the results of which, inform them how they feel. How do they get to know about the personal feeling of others? Easy that, they are taught to become keen observers of body language plus facial expressions. Apparently, body language and facial expressions are invariable attributes of all humans because all humans are basically just alike. Or, as those possessed of common sense might aver, “It’s common sense that people are the same everywhere.”
But then there’s the increased productivity horn of the bifurcation. Increased productivity requires more productive work For example, Ms. Ample Feelings, newly matriculated from business school and thoroughly in touch with her personal feelings, and cognizant of the personal feelings of others, has a new exciting career at The Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy*. Ample’s job is to advocate for down trodden Republicans attacked by the environment. If Ample advocates for two down trodden Republicans daily she is being productive. But if she advocates for four of them, daily, and her pay stays the same or decreases, and her hours stay the same or increase, Ample has doubled her productivity. Also, Ample, if she can keep up the pace, is in line for a promotion maybe, teaching the other workers how she doubled her productivity, or even a managerial position. Goodness!
Alas, however, there may be a great many other workers at Ample’s level, furiously working harder and harder, increasing their productivity, protecting the infinite hoards of miserable down trodden Republicans against the environment. There could, for example, be some really obnoxious person working away in the cubicle next to Ample. And this really obnoxious person, Obno, is protecting five Republicans every day from ferocious beavers or whatever. Plus, Ample can tell from reading Obno’s body language and facial expressions that Obno is especially obnoxious, not a team player and needs a refresher class in sensitivity training.
Off they go to sensitivity training, Ample included. “Shucks, why do I have to go too, I’m not the obnoxious Obno. This is not helping my relative productivity after all!” opines Ample wistfully.
But teamwork saves the day. By the way, teamwork is division of labor times the number of laborers organized into a pyramid like structure everywhere except at sensitivity training At sensitivity training, and management training also, maybe, the emphasis is on how everyone feels about themselves relative to the pyramid. At sensitivity training Ample gets to find out why her obnoxious next door cubicle neighbor is so obnoxious. It turns out that Obno is an introvert, while Amber is an extrovert. “Oh, now I understand!” Ample opines excitedly. “We can work as a team to save the miserable Republicans from the beavers. I will do the extroverted work and Obno can do the introverted work” Then Ample and Obno fall in love and live happily together for about an hour.
The old fashioned, mired in their ancient ideologies, may wonder what any of the above has to do with work. What’s the value added? You have to have some value added to a commodity from your labor, one potato, work, two potato, work, three potato, work, four potato. Right!
And the old fashioned have a point. There is that sort of work still being done, by foreigners. So Ample and Obno, recipients of the much braided trickle down ultimately derived from all that foreign labor, can do their work and enjoy very competitive salaries without having to worry about necessities.
OK. Let’s reconsider Ample’s job, environmental advocacy, or protecting downtrodden Republicans from beavers. What work does Ample do for the downtrodden Republicans? Well, Ample cuts through red tape, Ample facilitates access to authoritative congresspersons, Ample recommends funding, Ample is a hostess at enviropreneur camp. Ample is a many faceted multi-tasker, saving that miserable downtrodden Republican from that beaver.
Then one fine day, after all the hard work, the value added from Ample’s labor becomes apparent. The once fierce beaver is a valuable hat and matching muffs. The beaver’s wetland is a nice high end development. A beautiful new road, only a 20 mile commute, connects the high end development to a quaint shopping area where cheap labor foreigners may be had for a song. Lots of value has been added by Amber’s labor. And happily, the once miserable downtrodden Republican that Ample saved from the beaver is even richer than before the beaver attacked. That Republican, enjoying all the value added, might even consider doing a little trickle down.
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* Believe it or not, this is a real, tax exempt, company, founded by the Abramoff criminal and some Mammonite Homeland virtual Whore of Babylon who later became Secretary of the Interior. We can’t remember the name of that particular Whore of Babylon.
Harmony in the politically correct workplace, the presumptive scholars at the business schools are taught, is engendered from the recognition that everyone is way different but the same anyway and that’s OK. Though the workers are all different, but fundamentally the same, each worker can, with a little psychology, get up to speed when it comes to teamwork. All the worker has to do is come to grips with those personal feelings and recognize that the other workers have personal feelings too. Once all the workers get in touch with their personal feelings and learn about the personal feelings of others and how all those personal feelings interact, harmony is established and teamwork can proceed, efficaciously. So the scholars are taught how to get in touch with their own personal feelings and how to become keen observers of others so that they will know how the other workers are feeling once they, the scholars, actually go to work, at a job, hopefully, at the minimum, as a middle level manager.
How do the scholars learn about their own personal feelings? Easy that, they take a bunch of tests, the results of which, inform them how they feel. How do they get to know about the personal feeling of others? Easy that, they are taught to become keen observers of body language plus facial expressions. Apparently, body language and facial expressions are invariable attributes of all humans because all humans are basically just alike. Or, as those possessed of common sense might aver, “It’s common sense that people are the same everywhere.”
But then there’s the increased productivity horn of the bifurcation. Increased productivity requires more productive work For example, Ms. Ample Feelings, newly matriculated from business school and thoroughly in touch with her personal feelings, and cognizant of the personal feelings of others, has a new exciting career at The Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy*. Ample’s job is to advocate for down trodden Republicans attacked by the environment. If Ample advocates for two down trodden Republicans daily she is being productive. But if she advocates for four of them, daily, and her pay stays the same or decreases, and her hours stay the same or increase, Ample has doubled her productivity. Also, Ample, if she can keep up the pace, is in line for a promotion maybe, teaching the other workers how she doubled her productivity, or even a managerial position. Goodness!
Alas, however, there may be a great many other workers at Ample’s level, furiously working harder and harder, increasing their productivity, protecting the infinite hoards of miserable down trodden Republicans against the environment. There could, for example, be some really obnoxious person working away in the cubicle next to Ample. And this really obnoxious person, Obno, is protecting five Republicans every day from ferocious beavers or whatever. Plus, Ample can tell from reading Obno’s body language and facial expressions that Obno is especially obnoxious, not a team player and needs a refresher class in sensitivity training.
Off they go to sensitivity training, Ample included. “Shucks, why do I have to go too, I’m not the obnoxious Obno. This is not helping my relative productivity after all!” opines Ample wistfully.
But teamwork saves the day. By the way, teamwork is division of labor times the number of laborers organized into a pyramid like structure everywhere except at sensitivity training At sensitivity training, and management training also, maybe, the emphasis is on how everyone feels about themselves relative to the pyramid. At sensitivity training Ample gets to find out why her obnoxious next door cubicle neighbor is so obnoxious. It turns out that Obno is an introvert, while Amber is an extrovert. “Oh, now I understand!” Ample opines excitedly. “We can work as a team to save the miserable Republicans from the beavers. I will do the extroverted work and Obno can do the introverted work” Then Ample and Obno fall in love and live happily together for about an hour.
The old fashioned, mired in their ancient ideologies, may wonder what any of the above has to do with work. What’s the value added? You have to have some value added to a commodity from your labor, one potato, work, two potato, work, three potato, work, four potato. Right!
And the old fashioned have a point. There is that sort of work still being done, by foreigners. So Ample and Obno, recipients of the much braided trickle down ultimately derived from all that foreign labor, can do their work and enjoy very competitive salaries without having to worry about necessities.
OK. Let’s reconsider Ample’s job, environmental advocacy, or protecting downtrodden Republicans from beavers. What work does Ample do for the downtrodden Republicans? Well, Ample cuts through red tape, Ample facilitates access to authoritative congresspersons, Ample recommends funding, Ample is a hostess at enviropreneur camp. Ample is a many faceted multi-tasker, saving that miserable downtrodden Republican from that beaver.
Then one fine day, after all the hard work, the value added from Ample’s labor becomes apparent. The once fierce beaver is a valuable hat and matching muffs. The beaver’s wetland is a nice high end development. A beautiful new road, only a 20 mile commute, connects the high end development to a quaint shopping area where cheap labor foreigners may be had for a song. Lots of value has been added by Amber’s labor. And happily, the once miserable downtrodden Republican that Ample saved from the beaver is even richer than before the beaver attacked. That Republican, enjoying all the value added, might even consider doing a little trickle down.
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* Believe it or not, this is a real, tax exempt, company, founded by the Abramoff criminal and some Mammonite Homeland virtual Whore of Babylon who later became Secretary of the Interior. We can’t remember the name of that particular Whore of Babylon.
posted by ray pistrum at Friday, October 13, 2006
2 Comments:
This one has a good bit of sense and some good writing.
what we need is a good long parable that shows what the downfall of all these character have in store for them for all the evil they let loose and how just a tiny few greedi and evil ones manufactured the circumstances that led to all of us being expelled from the garden and how the evil ones were so dumb they thought that was a good thing.
Yep. There is a parable like that maybe, but its not finished yet. How much rain did you get? So far we got .35 inches and it looks like it's quit.
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