I've heard a lot of talk lately about the disappearance of courtesy and honesty in the businessplaces
of the United States. Question: did anyone ever think businesspeople were honest or courteous in the first place?
My cynical view of business today: the rat race is so competitive you have to use every loophole you
can find to ensure that your company is superior to every company that ever has been, is, or ever will be. There's nothing
new to take up these days in the basic, boring business world. (Note that I am excluding IT because IT espionage or duplication
is how giants are built without exception.) Loopholes, after all, are just that - loopholes. They are not illegal, merely
areas the laws miss or conveniently forget about. Why do laws - both state and federal - miss these things? Because legislators
and their constituants make money off these loopholes just as easily as the common businessperson does. Should public servants
- which all elected officials are - profit from the language of the bills they draft or vote into law?
I don't know.
And in saying "I don't know" I do not mean that I support tangible or intangible gifts to officials
- I simply realize that loopholes written into (or cut out of) bills have as much possiblity to benefit me as they do to benefit
the legislators. That's the nice thing about voting bills into laws - then they effect everyone. I dread the idea of forcing
legislators to dot all the i's and cross all the t's - that would restrict their money-making and, in turn, mine. This doesn't
sit well with me.
So, the real question is - do you want honest businesspeople through specfic, wordy, cumbersome laws
that prohibit everyone, or can you accept the dishonesty and stop making up scandals - allowing yourself the opportunity to
make more money than you have ever dreamed of legally, through loopholes?
