Sunday, May 6, 2012

Scary, very scary ...

Was Marx Right?

OK, don't shoot the messenger here.  Joe McCarthy can rest well in his grave, and that too is a good thing.  I do believe in the free market, but I also believe something is out of synch right now that isn't being addressed.   I have been going back to this post since it first came out in November.  At first I sort of laughed it off, but this morning, with the Political circus revving up, it just sort of hit me differently.  The point about WalMart and McD's being the top two employers and in a land of plenty so much not happening and a lot of people are making a lot of money. 

I try to keep my comments on this blog more business than political but I find this discussion very grey.  I have a lot of business experience, I have an MBA and a PMP certification.  I read a lot of Porter during my MBA and the Shared Value comment keeps coming back to haunt me.  That is what we don''t have and we really need to find. 

But, decide for yourself.  There are plenty of comments on this article as you can see.  And I wouldn't consider the Harvard Business Review some pinky radical left week type of publication.  Some of you might, so here here for freedom.

However, the more I read, the scarier it all became ...