You dreamed of a better world. Letter to a friend became small master.

You dreamed of a better world. I know it, I know you, you're a well-intentioned person you really thought there! That's why you've decided-e from a small business that would have values ​​different from those of large multinationals or the former factory where you worked : You, you do not délocaliserait the jobs like yours has been ! You going to buy local, Local produce and assure you that our jobs are here because you've seen too many companies from the last years in your area and too many people being unemployed, including yourself. It tore families, caused much misery, too bad it's shareholders that you've never seen in your life that have picked-e-s all the cash at the expense of workers which you were part. You were in criss-e and ready to make a difference. You had included e-globalization and neoliberalism, this is shit, and we agreed on it. So you got your e-party company to ensure you resist it and save your region despite my warnings.

Yeah ... You've decided-e one morning that you would be part of the new generation of e-s-dynamic entrepreneur, these "creative and innovative people, their ideas, restore the breath to the economy ", and you were going to, in addition to making money and creating jobs, be Green-e, well treat your employee-s ethics be worse down the line.

 

Bein me ... from my side, I warned that you were mistaken you royally bad we could not change the system from within and that you were better to become an e-wobblie and appropriating you your workplace then get involved in his self-management and / or from (or to reach you) a self-managed co-op if you interested in entrepreneurship. It was just my opinion. I think not hold the truth either, but I, the system, I said what was necessary to appropriate collectively, by and for workers, piece by piece, for misery continues. But you disagreed ...

 

Pity, in retrospect, I could offer you a beer more udder talk longer and maybe I could make you understand why I said that. But anyway ... there it's too late.

 

Yeah ... Today, you talk to me every time we meet and you're the same person. I am thinking against you begin to understand : You got to have naively ! You as tou-te-s the other, you ended-e-s exactly the opposite situation you want to create from, worse now ... it makes me ill-at-ease because you're rendering an e-shit bosses such as tou-te-s other although initially, deep inside, I know you're still a good person ! You just bosses of class interests, worse is the system that you're made of same-e. If we took away your company and you starting from scratch tomorrow, you would join you at this time we. Non ?

 

Then why are turned-e you like that ? What happened ? You want me to tell you ? Ok ! Here's how I, the wobblie, anticapitalist that did not want you listen to at the time, I see your history :

 

First of all, have started e-business you your. It's been a long time, money, energy, too bad you and the first employee and first-s that had you, you worked-e-s tou-te-s also, with a pittance and do hours of sick (like me I'm with the union in addition to my job), because you believed there, project ! Despite all that, thou hast made quickly e-account only succeed in an ethical environment ... it is not easy. It has not taken much time for you to understand that you would need to keep wages low, including stand, if you wanted the company passes the five years. But by doing that, you have created poverty; yours and that of your employee-s ! Because working 55-60 hour weeks, it's expensive resto, guardian, psy, bad for a couple of e-I suspect, which probably you, alcohol and dope to self-medicate. I remember the first time you released me (and I knew you were gonna do it one day) it put you in criss when your employee-s come to see you to earn more or have time off or vacation as thyself, thou was splitting the ass for them and in them and had not even you as much, and moreover, you "taking all the risk" as was recorded you and for you, a business failure, it was also a personal bankruptcy.

 

I understand your point of view and I have told you that it is for that reason that private enterprise was not a solution since the operation rather than being exploited, it ended by auto-Operate. Were not you agree, you said that one day, it would get better and that neither you nor your employee-s do would operate by your company. But that's not what happened, hein ?

 

Do you remember when come-e're telling me that the grants to young companies and tax holidays and tax, finally, it really necessary ? We'll hear here… you was not down-E low as to make a donation to PLQ yet (and I hope you never did), but it was made clear to you that ask young companies to pay taxes prevent them to exist and that it is the citizen-not-s or larger businesses, that they, have money, to pay it. I knew you were going to tell me one day. And I've told you that in thinking like that, one more time, you was creating poverty because you now leaned neoliberal agenda, but you you lived in denial and told me not. You said you still "left" because feminist and that you wanted to reinvest in schools, the health system and the sustainable and green economy, and you always give a fair wage to your employee-s compared to yours. But with what money we reinvest, hein ? Large companies pay no taxes and the system is unable to do anything against it, too bad you know ! And the workers that you paid $ 12 / hr not afford to pay either. I told you that the only solution, was to organize to reclaim the, the big enterprises; it was the only way to get back the money from our work, but unfortunately, as an entrepreneur, it was not in your interests, So you've never done or supported. You've always been anti-union enough with your employee-s done. Non ?

 

You also remember the times you said that the minimum wage to $ 15 / hr, it would mean to kill all small businesses "ethical and create jobs" [sic] region as yours ? Damn that was made you a Boss ! I pogne strong with you this time, you remember it ? Like I explained why if everyone won 15 $/h minimum, it would make you more money in the end that now because your income would increase more than your salary expenditures, but you told me you could not you afford "unless the minimum wage went up for everyone at the same time and it eventually also affect you and your competitor-e-s". But it's funny, although you were all right this time, I've never seen you in the street to support a substantial increase in the minimum wage either, or encourage people to go there. You not understand what is, it looks, class struggles.

 

Anyway…

 

Your business began to grow since that time, and now she's fine. Good for you also ! You've worked hard, I must give you ! The trouble with against ... is that your employee-s also, it worked-e-s hard, and now that you you win 50 000 $ per year (more your chariot 70 000 $ on behalf of the company and your eight or ten business trips in the annual five-star hotels around the world and your business dinners in restaurants in 25 $ the covered two or three times that week between not you in this 50 000 $ there to believe your employee-s and yourself that you just wins 50 000 $), and yet they themselves earn between 25 000 $ and 45 000 $ per year.

 

I asked you why, challenger for you, you remember it ? You answered me-e because it was had assumed-e all the risk before you incorporate and that it was you who had ridden the entire company, and therefore you deserved it. That's when I knew that you had gone a ***** bourgeois, that is to say a person who appropriates the labor of others (because everyone worked, not just you ! I work 70 I am weeks, it's more than you, and I earn $ 15 / hr ... yet) and that makes his work and have acquired (acquired by the exploitation of others, lest we forget) for it and can now continue to receive some income without lifting a finger. Yeah… you're a made-e-e parasite of society, but unlike the assisted-e-s social is often wrongly treated parasites, you you CAN work instead of making you live by the work of others, and thou earn much more than the people who pay to make you live !

 

Ah ! And let me explain another matter and explain it to your e-s-employed simultaneously, because I am a trade unionist and I think they understand it and they should : Your company purchases for some time other companies to increase the value and, as you are in the sole owner, one day you can sell everything that you have purchased (without creating job because you now go about buying existing companies) through the work of your employee-s that they and they will reap nothing. We agree ? So, that's it : Finally, if one calculates it over everything I have mentioned above, you not win 50 000 $ per year; in earns you well above 100 000 ! And did not you worked harder than many people who are not earning 30 000 $. You're rich because you're only become e-Boss in which its employee-s must all because without you, "The company pays not exist". The system you have eaten ! Are you become like tou-te-s the other ... You just makes you not in account.

 

And the ultimate, is that now that are made e-Boss you to a company that makes enough money to pay taxes according TES before standards, and although you have changed e-idea about that too because "your competitor-e-s are tax evasion and if your company does not, your e-s-competitor will win over you ". And once again, I will not see trying to push for all businesses pay their taxes through international laws that would ensure that you would not disadvantage compared to your competitor-e-s and you do not shut it your gates, hein ? Too bad, because with the power that you have now, you have plenty of ways to contribute to the fight. But no, I guess you, you not have time, you do the business ! Full e-s-employed you need for the company to go well and that they have a job. This is the other, those who work not as much as you (but who, in fact, their activism in addition to their job, work and more risk than you), that should do it, I suppose.

 

In any case ! I remember after you have told me that and I wanted to send you walk, I tried one last time to make you understand that you had become and I asked you what was left of your ethical business. Your answer was to put you to brag about your products (which are excellent and I Achaetes, this is not the problem) made here with ecological materials and subcontracts here rather than in China. I asked you if you thought not, in the bottom, your company was just that the "branding" (his trademark) is to be "ethical" and that you used to draw your customer-e-s but in reality, everything was going BEYOND the product itself was not ? And it hath upset-e. It was pogne again on it. Fortunately, we managed to calm down because both, it is smart-e-s adult and able to discuss and we've known for a long time. I've still wondered if you still thought we could change the capitalist system from within by private enterprise, and, you tell me 'yes, but ... "and you've unpacked the typical arguments of a privileged person who really believes that the fruit of his labor, she deserved only, and it really stood your affair, sorry. Basically ... I knew you'd understand, it appeared in your face. You were about to realize that I was right from the beginning; ethical and responsible business, it's a trap ! It takes good people and it makes monsters. Wanting to do good around you ... you have just created more poor, and to paraphrase Robert Rifle : Y are poor because you're rich, worse because what you're rich are poor.

 

That’s it !

 

You could have from a self-managed co-op or join you in the fight (and you can always, if you accept to sell everything), but you did not because ... maybe ... somewhere, had you not really revolutionary interests and this is perhaps not the justice and the good of people you wanted more than the fame of being a young-e e-contractor ethics and status (and BMW) that goes with. Maybe also, and I think it's rather that, that you rather just lacked knowledge to really understand how the system works and that you simply have made a big blunder, like many other people. The truth is that I'll ever know. But now, hast been my board, and I would like that everyone read that text before starting a business or before undertaking a careerist path, whether in politics or in business, hoping to change things like that.

 

To all of you : You are wrong ! This is not the way to change things ! Ethical business, it's a trap !

 

We have to finally understand…

 

 

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Photo credit: Alexandre Shields, Le Devoir.