[TheForge] happy workers, happy shareholders

[Gladish Family]

This makes me think along these lines: we're being constantly told that
what's good for the captains of industry is neccesarily good for everybody
(trickle-down economics). Well, why wouldn't it go both ways? Is what's good
for the average worker neccesarily good for the guys at the top? Sure worked
for the auto industry for a long time...
Why wouldn't happy workers benefit the shareholders? If it's put in such
simple terms, it seems a no-brainer.
The key is that most people don't look beyond their own self-interest.

> 	I'd imagine the answer to this lies in the heart of each
> 	individual.  It might, in some mental context, be a sad
> 	by-product of the business culture's quest for ever greater
> 	profit (which, IMO has gone simple over the past decade).
> 	In this context it seems the expectations of profit have
> 	far outstripped the considerations for the people that
> 	make those profits for the shareholders.  This shows, in
> 	most candid fashion, the bloodless nature of the proverbial
> 	stockholder who isn't consciously out to screw the worker
> 	but is so absorbed with ever higher dividends that the worker
> 	doesn't even enter into their mental landscape.  This is the
> 	kind of thinking that got the French and Russian aristocracies
> 	wiped out in bloody revolutions.  The Froggies and Russkies
> 	up top, if histories are to be believed, weren't even aware
> 	that anything was amiss.  Duh.