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At the Expense of the Many for the Few
An open call to all development, technology, manufacturing and engineering firms world wide.

When the few in Silicon Valley, Redmond, Mexico, Bangalore and other Regions in South East Asia increase their wealth at radical amounts at the expense of many workers abroad, in their home countries, in the US, Canada and Europe there is something systematically and ethically wrong with business.

Generations past the gap between junior employees and senior management might max out at a 5 to 1 ratio. It is conceivable that the ability of individuals to grow companies might warrant a 10 to 1 ratio ? but this is far from the case today. Gaps have widened. Security has decreased. Executives are compensated base on the surplus years and not penalized base on the lean years.

This is a wake up call to the majority of good or misdirected companies ? become innovative, productive and human again. There is a time when the builders of organizations took great joy in owning something great. Now all they have left is the dollars they accumulated at the end of the game. No joy, no accomplishment only the accumulated wealth. Wealth is good ? it?s how you achieve it that can make you proud.

Bruce J Hafner
President / CEO
Silicon Mindset, Inc.
http://www.siliconmindset.com
Software Made in America
Posted by: bhafner   Posted on: 01/27/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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This report looks like hogwash  vferrara | 01/27/04
This report looks like hogwash...  wploger | 01/27/04
I believe in a free market society...  vferrara | 01/27/04
NOTHING "free market" about it!!!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/27/04
What are you talking about?  vferrara | 01/27/04
Unfortunately you seem to be clueless about it.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/27/04
Try reading the article little one.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/28/04
The FREE MARKET no longer exists  voska | 01/27/04
You sound like...  BitTwiddler | 01/27/04
Wrong!!!!  vferrara | 01/27/04
I believe in a free market society...  wploger | 01/27/04
We overcame them didn't we?  vferrara | 01/27/04
No I did not....  wploger | 01/27/04
Not Quite  JimSatterfieldW | 01/28/04
Message has been deleted  amirali | 02/06/05
Any company...  BitTwiddler | 01/27/04
I won't argue this  vferrara | 01/27/04
You are wrong.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/27/04
Those are taxes  voska | 01/27/04
Of course  fastech@... | 01/27/04
Not to worry  ejhonda | 01/27/04
I'll tell you what a living wage means...  Heatlesssun | 01/27/04
Living Wage  vferrara | 01/27/04
You answerd you own question  Tammee | 01/27/04
Different argument  vferrara | 01/27/04
Your two points are backwards  voska | 01/27/04
re: Living Wage  bgoss@... | 01/27/04
Where's the money come from  voska | 01/27/04
Wrong  JimSatterfieldW | 01/28/04
Living Wage  randomletter | 01/28/04
Ok, I'll answer your question...  flafone | 01/29/04
Coming to US shores...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/27/04
Your scenario is scary but possible  vferrara | 01/27/04
Sorry, but you are still wrong.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/27/04
It isn't "possible", it's planned.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/27/04
Never worked in one of those plants have you  voska | 01/27/04
No quite true.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/27/04
Government Waste...  wploger | 01/27/04
Global corporations are independent from the USA  tero_t_vaananen@... | 01/27/04
At the Expense of the Many for the Few  bhafner | 01/27/04
100% spot on.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/27/04
Can I please...  BitTwiddler | 01/27/04
You are right  vferrara | 01/27/04
Not if history is any indication.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/27/04
I don't see the middle class disappearing  voska | 01/27/04
Do a Google search on "US wealth distribution".  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/28/04
I'm not so sure  John L. Ries | 01/27/04
Bruce for prez!  JosePinchero | 01/27/04
How can this be? IBM is for the "people".  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/27/04
RE: IBM is for the "people"  JakAttak | 01/27/04
If there was no market, there would be no sweatshops.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/27/04
Bit, you're having another fuzzy logic moment...  emartin_z | 01/27/04
Sorry, you misunderstood me.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/27/04
Linux and IBM  bgoss@... | 01/27/04
Message has been deleted.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/27/04
Message has been deleted.  NoB$ | 01/28/04
i must be an MS shill  RedHat9User | 01/28/04
IBM is hardware for profit  voska | 01/27/04
proves we need that national min wage  JWatson77 | 01/27/04
IBM's astounding response to CAFOD  wpmatlake | 01/27/04
IT Firms Take Heat For 'sweatshop' Labor  aatayyab | 01/28/04
Message has been deleted.  amirali | 02/06/05
Message has been deleted  nospam@... | 02/22/05
Message has been deleted  aatayyab | 09/29/05

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