In postmodern life, you have to find at least part of your identity by joining a corporation. But it has some good because it’s a condition something like life in the Middle Ages with the guilds. All work took place then in organizations with wages and prices and the quality of goods regulated so that all the factors of production came together harmoniously. The bourgeoisie got rid of the guilds so they could raise prices, cheat on the quality of goods for more profit, and lower wages. The bourgeoisie had narrow values that they claimed were universal in order to reinforce their power. Everyone had to be an independent individual to count. Money assured individuality and since money was scarce, it had to be earned by opposing all individuals without money. Riches were for the few. Workers worked exclusively to make riches for people who were against them politically and philosophically. In the nineteenth century, the values of corporations were bourgeois. They were for themselves but then technologies advanced and they began producing in spite of their narrow values living wages for their workers. Now corporations are even beginning to take on positive public activities not designed to make money. They need educated workers and they have all learned that well paid educated workers can be trusted with responsibilities that expand corporations. Human goodness is good for everything including profits. Especially profits. The richer the workers, the greater the demand for the products of corporations. Easy profits produce not only greedy humans but virtuous humans pure and simple. Money talks but it talks louder and louder with happy workers. Individuality makes less and less sense if it means relating to other men as the bourgeoisie once taught us how to relate. Make a worker an object and you just make a human an object among objects. Make a worker also a subject and you turn an object into a creator. The key to it all however is still riches. But the pie gets bigger so every piece of the pie gets bigger. If corporations continue baking the way they now bake, they are bound to create more and more bigger and more delicious bites for most of us. And what they can not provide all of us, our states should provide us by taking a just percentage of corporate riches.
Daniel McNeill
Daniel McNeill’s novella The End of All Beginnings is available at
Read it free on Kindle with a free app or buy it on Kindle for $1.99.
Also available as a book for $5.99.
A powerful and very dramatic exploration of love and relations between
a 70-year-old man and four women, two sisters 18 and 19, their mother
46, and a lesbian friend 22. It is full of well-written dialogues between the five
In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right
from the start and it is impossible not to read it as quickly as possible (it
can be read in less than three hours} to an ending that is totally unexpected
and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards
one liberating ending to all its beginnings.
The Theater of the Impossible by Daniel McNeill is at Amazon:
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