Well, I'm doomed now.

You are as close to a communist as anyone I've ever "met". You
really believe in distribution of the wealth, the evils of the
capitalistic system, and how the revolution will come.

Yet now you are in a position of power, a middle man, responsible
for both granting / denying raises, determine work output, etc.

So, will you abuse your position to maximize the amount of wealth
you can redistribute to the people who work for you? Essentially
stealing from you employer and dooming your career.

Will you abuse the people who work for you, squeezing every ounce
of productivity possible, to the detriment of the health and welfare?

Or will strike a balance, managing to both increase productivity,
while not harming to people who work for you, which is the essense
of the "value add" that a good manager provides, which makes them
worth their salary. And occasionally pushing hard to meet a deadline,
or firing the incompetent?

And if you accomplish this, doesn't it rip out the underpinning of all
your anti-capitalistic rants?

So to recap:

#1 - Fail miserably, lose job, keep your self image, re-inforce your
belief system

#2 - Succeed miserably, get large bonuses / promotions, lose your self image,
re-inforce your belief system.

#3 - Succeed happily, get modest bonuses / promotions, keep your self image,
destroy your belief system.

Did I miss an option?

I love it when you talk Capitalist. (As-if any two people in the whole world had the same 'meaning' for that blab-word)

So then.. if a person manages to work well within a milieu, be honest with co- \ufffdber- and unter- mensch, resist the reptile urge towards cupidity, etc. etc.

This 'Proves' that the movement of the %wealth into a %tinier&tinier in the Larger Scheme is a mere Red Herring. The Market Will Correct and correct and er,

(So What! if - that [%wealth of a near-future .01%] is asymptotic to say, 90%? from some present value (in the 40s-60s, depending on whether you're using Excel fucked algorithms or an abacus.))
The System is Working as Designed. Izzat it?

Love. It.

IF THEN ELSE WHILE == x.yyyyyyyyyy to ten nines precision on the Marchant calculator.
(At least That one doesn't use transistors..)

Have you nothing from G\ufffddel in your philosophy, Horatio?
Or Jung?
Slagthof Funf..?

Disc World?!
Or is it just Machiavelli, in well-worn leather binding?
(A prince of a CIEIO for Our Times!)

:-\ufffd

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