"Nintendo Fluorine" and the future of "stable work in a large corporation"

    So, the widely publicized global financial crisis has begun. So what?

    Most of all, in the proliferated prophecies about the so-called great global depression, two things surprise me. The first is an attempt to link it with the peak of oil production and other phenomena of a physical nature. In fact, the First Great Depression and other financial crises did not arise at all because someone did not have enough oil or coal, but because one fine day there weren’t enough solvent suckers who would buy the right amount of assets at the inflated prices for the last and last time. Something like MMM, only partially linked to reality.

    The second is attempts to once again declare the "death of capitalism". Say, the biggest pyramid is capitalism as such, and therefore it supposedly must die, and in general capitalism is a type of evil, it contradicts human nature, etc. I would like to ask these “tunes” (to which Davydov and myself included):

    and what, in fact, are alternatives to the capitalist method of farming at this stage?

    Davydov and others like him talk about some kind of “non-profitable” economy (something like Open Source in the material sphere), about “volunteering”, “enthusiasm”, “self-sacrifice” and other beautiful things. It is wonderful that there are people who are ready to unselfishly raise our planet from shit. But is it possible to seriously believe that everyone will one day become so white and fluffy, and remove all protection from the "black and spiky"? Moreover, is it possible to expect that the "good" will remain so in the conditions of weakening feedback from their efforts, in the crowd of "bad"? A system devoid of material feedback solves the “prisoner dilemma” in favor of the most unprincipled of its participants. In other words, there is no better reward or punishment than a dollar.

    The reality is that money, the market, although an imperfect mechanism full of bugs, solve material issues, but they haven’t come up with anything more efficiently. One of the types of such bugs is periodically arising large and small financial crises. Sooner or later, the current bug will be professional, the mechanism will be patched (in 1933, the idea of ​​a patch, that is, targeted regulation of the economy, was new) and will work again until another bug comes out. What is fatal for the whole system is incomprehensible.

    Thus, the current “crusader” cannot be called a “crisis of world capitalism”. Capitalism has not nearly revealed its potential (if one can even speak of its full disclosure), while there is at least one corporation in the modern sense of the word. But just this corporate white-collar world seems to be coming to an end. More precisely, a substantial restructuring. But for a single white-collar worker, this is like the end of the world.

    The bank, which covered itself with a silicone basin and caused all this hype - Lehman Brothers - had a 158-year history. This is exactly twice as much as the period that has passed since the beginning of the Great Depression. In 1850, legal slavery existed in the United States, and serfdom existed in the Russian Empire, and Marx had not yet begun to write his Capital. The financial dinosaur, miraculously survived the biggest global crisis of the past, this time dropped its claws. Is it worth it to regret in an era when businesses (and banks!) Open and close in a matter of years, fulfilling their mission, and the concept of "stability" goes down in history? Only those who seriously believed in a corporate myth can regret it.

    Before shedding tears about the future of hundreds of thousands of loan clerks Lehman Brothers and other bankruptcy candidates who will be fired today or tomorrow, I want to ask the question: are we ready for this turn of events?

    Are we prepared for the fact that the alternative “DO IT YOURSELF or DO YOUR JOB” that caused so many holivars is replaced by another - “DO or DIE”?

    Are we ready to admit the fact that there is more stable RABOTA net (yes that RABOT, there is no stability at all, except in the coffin, but we don’t need to go there :)), and stop driving corporate myths into our heads and the heads of our children?

    This is important exclusively for us. THE CRISIS OF THE WORLD CORPORATE does not care if we are ready for it.

    And there will be even more capitalism, money, globalization, and even corporations in the post-crisis world. The corporate problem is not in corporations, but in the relationships that reign in them and between them. These relations will be radically revised by order of General Dollar. The final result of the global crisis will be a kind of “new course 2.0”, a set of recommendations for improving economic structures in the new conditions (in relation to financial, tax legislation, etc., but not in relation to basic market principles). Even the notorious chimera of "intellectual property", patents and copyright, which has a great chance of not surviving until the middle of the century, has a very mediocre attitude to the subject. Perhaps some new currencies or international financial institutions (which initiate this rate) will appear, and some of the existing ones will become obsolete. In any case, this does not pull the revolution, but rather the planned upgrade of the global economic system, its adaptation to a much more globalized and saturated market. The potential for extensive growth (the search for even greater volumes of cheap labor, credit consumers, etc., that is, a lowering cycle according to Kondratiev) has been exhausted - intensification begins, the transition to technology and generally to qualitative solutions instead of quantitative ones. All this requires much more effort, but over time it will inevitably bring real results. And the upcoming hard world of the 2010s, at least, is looking somewhere forward. credit consumers, etc., that is, the lowering cycle according to Kondratyev) has been exhausted - intensification begins, leaving in technology and generally in high-quality solutions instead of quantitative ones. All this requires much more effort, but over time it will inevitably bring real results. And the upcoming hard world of the 2010s, at least, is looking somewhere forward. credit consumers, etc., that is, the lowering cycle according to Kondratyev) has been exhausted - intensification begins, leaving in technology and generally in high-quality solutions instead of quantitative ones. All this requires much more effort, but over time it will inevitably bring real results. And the upcoming hard world of the 2010s, at least, is looking somewhere forward.

    Forward.

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