The whole problem with the world today is gluttony.

Not simply gluttony in the sense of consumerism or in the sense of eating, but in the sense of wealth addiction.

Companies no longer take chances or wait to see a product develop, or retain good labor.

Cutting costs, laying people off, getting cheaper and lower quality products, outsourcing, these are all things done to ensure that the shareholders make profits.

But the repercussions are vast. The repercussions affect the world economy, they turn American into a third world shopping mall.

When the quality of the products worsens so that profits are made, and the poor people of China and other countries work for pennies a day seven days a week, and we continue to buy cheap products and poor tasting food because many of our jobs have been outsourced and our economy is poor.

The military corporate industrial complex continues to fuel its greed for money with the blood and life of young people and people around the world.

When you are a billionaire, why do you need more? Why does someone or a group of billionaires need to cut costs by getting rid of all their employees who make more than ten dollars an hour? Why do they need to keep getting cheaper and cheaper products made and lowering the quality of our food and clothing just for an extra few cents?

The gluttonous greed and the wealth addiction, along with the power and desire to control our government through lobbyists, making deals with the politicians, who are supposed to represent the interests of we the people, puts the proletariat, the average citizen, in a great deal of trouble and at a huge disadvantage.

Due to the profits over business ethics mentality has lead to a wartime economy, it has lead to more layoffs, it has lead to less quality in both product and customer service, and as the cost of living goes up and the wages and quality go down, why shouldn't business ethics prevail.

After all, if we utilized business ethics and treated people good, and put forth the extra few dollars, our economy would be stronger in the long run, our workforce would be intelligent and good at what they do, and the quality of life would change drastically.

Things would improve and then stay improved. The profit mongers want it now now now, it is like they have Veruca Salt Syndrome or something, they do not care when, they do not care how, they just want it now.

It is really sad that anyone who is intelligent could believe that profits should come first.
Many of the great writers and artists of our species have been poor throughout their lives. Money us not everything, nor is it the root of all evil.

The evil comes from greed, and it comes from the need to control others and to dominate our experience as human beings. This is just unfair and it jeopardizes the health of millions of human beings, and I do not think a small percentage of the species deserves to benefit from millions of poor human beings slaving away for the benefit of these elitist overfed few.

Business ethics could help save the environment, slow the overpopulation issue, help deal with the toxicity of our air, and reinvigorate a species that overall has been always suffering under the elite few.

The downtrodden many could use a lift and so could the human race, and business ethics could let the majority if humanity experience a reality beyond mere indentured servitude.

Learn more about this author, Thaxton Lewis.

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