28 Nov
2004
28 Nov
'04
8:11 p.m.
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 23:26:52 +0000, tim hall
<tech(a)glastonburymusic.org.uk> wrote:
Last Sunday 28 November 2004 20:31, Mark Knecht was
like:
[OT - the following is not about the thread. Just an experience.] Yes.
In the job I just got kicked out of after 5 1/2 years of working for
gentleman from India I saw the same thing kill his company. He
couldn't even see when his socialistic view of how to run his business
was killing him in the middle of the American Open Market economy. He
thought it didn't matter where the money went since he was the
beneficiary of everything good in the company and that it would
trickle down to everyone underneath. What it did in our case was to
make everyone think that the success of the company wasn't up to them
but up to someone else. In the end everyone spent money and no one
made any. I wasn't much impressed by this method of management...
My experience using both is no that different,
but
for me it's not political.
Am I wrong when I think this desire is particularly European in
nature? I'm so Open Market driven, especially when it comes to
technology, that I hardly seem to understand this oter POV. However, I
am interested.
[-;{
European politics also include socialist points of view. European alternatives
seem more edgy, punky and rebellious compared to the relatively hedonic view
we get of American culture from this side of the pond. Windows, like
Coca-Cola and MacDonalds, is also seen as a byproduct of American Imperialism
by some.
Interesting. I have no such view, but logically I shouldn't, right?
I'm stuck in the middle of being Imperial so I cannot see the
guillotine coming down on my neck, can I? ;-)
From this side of th epond it looks like American
manufacuring
enginuity making a product that the world wants (Coke or Pepsi, it
don't matter...) and the socialists being upset that they didn't think
of it first. ;-) Before I get flamed, I do understand tht the US got
it's hed handed to it on a platter in the 1980's by the Japanese, what
with cars and semiconductors, and it probably will have many more of
these experiences in the future. That said, I'm guessing you'd agree
that you're better off having the vote even on that side of the pond?
;-)
I remember a young lad from New York coming to visit and being slightly
offended and rather perplexed when we suggested that he shouldn't drink
Coca-Cola. He was like: "What, you guys only drink Pepsi?".[*]
I rest my case.
LOL!! Love it!
};-]
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
[*] Note for perplexed Americans: Being English, we only drink warm beer,
which we brew ourselves, or scalding hot tea, freshly stolen from the Indian
sub-continent, with a dash of milk. Of course.
Hey, almost exactly the state of affairs in my house, except there are
some beers better served cold...