Re:Unions are not really a good thing
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...consider the benefits of a union that's run by more honest and less shady people.
Is that anything like a government that's run by more honest and less shady people? Yeah. Let's have one of those, too. There's this thing called "Human Nature." You can't hide from it.
While we're at it, Let's have world peace, cure cancer, end hunger... Let's see, what else... Oh yeah! Can I have a side of fries with that?
The point is, they _ARE_ accountable and if you want your voice to be heard, there's a mechanism for it and bitching on/. is far from productive. I didn't say buy up enough shares that the geeks of the world pull off some sort of heroic coup and overthrow the place, just go be heard by the only people who make a freaking difference, the stock holders. Considering how many stockholders actually go to the meetings, a concerted effort in this area could have interesting results.
One share is all it takes. A room full of people each with one share can make a hell of a lot of noise in the presence of the few people with many shares who've probably never even heard the other side of the story. The only trick is this:
sending in a group of people each of which has the ability to keep their cool, not get emotional, and articulate their points of view clearly. Not sure where to find those guys. Maybe we could buy ESR a share and send him.:)
Nations (mostly democratic ones) have to be some what accountable to constituents - Corporations don't. Do you see a problem yet?
No...
They're accountable to stockholders. If all the people who don't like M$ would buy stock and go to the meetings, they could affect real change by presenting their views before the other stockholders (larger investors). That's probably more power than you have in dealing with your congressmen. If the media can't do a good job of explaining to the people who own microsoft (investors) what the problem is, why don't you go do it yourself? It wouldn't take much. Just one share per person.
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...consider the benefits of a union that's run by more honest and less shady people.
Is that anything like a government that's run by more honest and less shady people? Yeah. Let's have one of those, too. There's this thing called "Human Nature." You can't hide from it.
While we're at it, Let's have world peace, cure cancer, end hunger... Let's see, what else... Oh yeah! Can I have a side of fries with that?
The point is, they _ARE_ accountable and if you want your voice to be heard, there's a mechanism for it and bitching on /. is far from productive. I didn't say buy up enough shares that the geeks of the world pull off some sort of heroic coup and overthrow the place, just go be heard by the only people who make a freaking difference, the stock holders. Considering how many stockholders actually go to the meetings, a concerted effort in this area could have interesting results.
One share is all it takes. A room full of people each with one share can make a hell of a lot of noise in the presence of the few people with many shares who've probably never even heard the other side of the story. The only trick is this:
:)
sending in a group of people each of which has the ability to keep their cool, not get emotional, and articulate their points of view clearly. Not sure where to find those guys. Maybe we could buy ESR a share and send him.
Nations (mostly democratic ones) have to be some what accountable to constituents - Corporations don't. Do you see a problem yet?
No...
They're accountable to stockholders. If all the people who don't like M$ would buy stock and go to the meetings, they could affect real change by presenting their views before the other stockholders (larger investors). That's probably more power than you have in dealing with your congressmen. If the media can't do a good job of explaining to the people who own microsoft (investors) what the problem is, why don't you go do it yourself? It wouldn't take much. Just one share per person.