Catch 22

People are being laid off. Companies are downsizing. The economy is in turmoil. The government is printing more money in order to pay off its debts. (Wish I could do that!)



Many people are calling big business insensitive when they outsource their work to other countries in order to stay productive. So the question is "Are companies insensitive to their workers?"



To answer that one must look at both sides and understand both sides. The result may just be a Catch 22.



The business owner/CEO:



He/She wants to turn a profit in order to stay in business. The cost of doing business in the USA keeps going up yet the company can’t raise it prices because people will not be able to afford them or they will look elsewhere for similar and less costly items.



The employees want more money to buy more "things" that the advertising media "demands" they need. The cost of employee benefits (healthcare) keeps going up. Business taxes keep going up.



The CEO needs to cut expenses somewhere. So he/she learns that people in other countries are willing to work for a lot less, because their cost of living is a lot less. It’s decision time –close down shop or layoff some workers.



The workers/employees:



They need some sort of work to pay their bills and to maintain their style of living that they have been trained to believe they need to maintain. Cost of food, gas and utilities keep going up.



The cost of those many needless items, that the advertising media have conditioned them to need to have, keeps going up. More of those needless items are being produced and the worker has been conditioned to want the latest gadget.



They can’t work for less money because of the above so they demand higher wages. They feel it is unfair that the company chooses to stay in business by outsourcing their work to foreign countries where labor is cheaper.



They feel that the business should be happier with less profit, yet they are unwilling to settle for lower wages.



Then the final slap in the face occurs when a call center in a foreign country fields calls to their "hotline to field complaints". Of course, the company would not have used the foreign call center if a more competitive call center was available in the USA.



Results:



The employees are on unemployment and forced to cut back on their style of living. The company is looked upon as a non-feeling money-grubbing enterprise and groups ban together to boycott their products/services.



In the end both company/CEO and workers/employees loose out, all because of the advertising media, over time, brainwashing people to believe they need a lot of useless junk to be happy.



What needs to happen:



The laid off employees need to start their own home-based business doing something they are passionate about and will love doing. They also need to learn to live on less of the non-essential junk of life and more of the feel-good free things life has to offer.



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