Wow, this is going to sound terribly simplistic to all those business types out there, since I have never worked in the business world more than a few months at most. I was fortunate to find my career in academic librarianship, where I, personally, didn't have to worry about the bottom line. The thing that separates that culture from the world of business is that instead of competition, our work centered on collaboration, on sharing resources with other institutions to solve the problems of our "customers," both internal and external. Of course, there is a business model in place within the academic institution itself, and the university competes for students. But as service providers within that structure, we only had to worry about problem solving and service to our clientele. A very wise man who was a successful and much loved salesman once told me that he didn't think of himself as a salesman, but as a problem solver. Here's another wise saying: The customer is not always right, but s/he is always the customer. In my own idealism I honestly feel that if a business can sincerely put the welfare of the population that it serves before the optimization of its profits, then that would be the greatest power of them all.
I can understand corpocratically-inclined and extreme-wealth Americans supporting the likes of Trump’s past soulless — hell, completely un-Christlike — and most morally ugly Big Beautiful Bill.
But there are so many voters and elected Republicans who claim to be Christian yet defend, or at least are noticeably quiet about, the bill despite its ultimate cutting of access to health services and food aid/supports for the poorest Americans.
It’s bad enough for the Trump government, that’s widely supported by the institutional Christian community in American, to cut whatever minimal government support there is for poor people, especially children, lacking food and/or those without access to privately insured health care. But to do so in large part to redirect those funds via tax cuts to the superfluously very wealthy — including those who have no need for more money, and likely never will — is plain immoral.
The money will mostly go towards an attempt to satiate the bottomless-pit greed of unlimited-growth capitalism and hoarded wealth. It’s morbidly shameful conduct by a supposedly Christian nation’s government, which is largely politically supported by institutional ‘Christianity’ in America.
And while Trump is pulling the wings off of many Americans who materially have little or nothing, he only further exposes his administration’s fraudulent, bastardized version of genuine Christianity.
Wow, this is going to sound terribly simplistic to all those business types out there, since I have never worked in the business world more than a few months at most. I was fortunate to find my career in academic librarianship, where I, personally, didn't have to worry about the bottom line. The thing that separates that culture from the world of business is that instead of competition, our work centered on collaboration, on sharing resources with other institutions to solve the problems of our "customers," both internal and external. Of course, there is a business model in place within the academic institution itself, and the university competes for students. But as service providers within that structure, we only had to worry about problem solving and service to our clientele. A very wise man who was a successful and much loved salesman once told me that he didn't think of himself as a salesman, but as a problem solver. Here's another wise saying: The customer is not always right, but s/he is always the customer. In my own idealism I honestly feel that if a business can sincerely put the welfare of the population that it serves before the optimization of its profits, then that would be the greatest power of them all.
Well said, Dory. And what a wise reframe for your salesman friend.
I can understand corpocratically-inclined and extreme-wealth Americans supporting the likes of Trump’s past soulless — hell, completely un-Christlike — and most morally ugly Big Beautiful Bill.
But there are so many voters and elected Republicans who claim to be Christian yet defend, or at least are noticeably quiet about, the bill despite its ultimate cutting of access to health services and food aid/supports for the poorest Americans.
It’s bad enough for the Trump government, that’s widely supported by the institutional Christian community in American, to cut whatever minimal government support there is for poor people, especially children, lacking food and/or those without access to privately insured health care. But to do so in large part to redirect those funds via tax cuts to the superfluously very wealthy — including those who have no need for more money, and likely never will — is plain immoral.
The money will mostly go towards an attempt to satiate the bottomless-pit greed of unlimited-growth capitalism and hoarded wealth. It’s morbidly shameful conduct by a supposedly Christian nation’s government, which is largely politically supported by institutional ‘Christianity’ in America.
And while Trump is pulling the wings off of many Americans who materially have little or nothing, he only further exposes his administration’s fraudulent, bastardized version of genuine Christianity.
Religion can certainly be misused! Jenna’s framework is all about how wealth should uplift all people.