The first week of the Trump restoration has recalled the times when a company has gone through a reorganization or had a management shakeup. Companies run on the decisions made by the people inside the company and those decisions are the result of the habits of mind, the company culture. Even the big decisions tend to follow a predicable course once you understand the culture.
When there is a reorganization or a new management team comes in, it feels like a shock to the system because it is a shock to the system. The new ways of doing things rattle the old culture because the new ways or the new people conflict with the old ways and those old ways must give way or those old ways must break the new people and the changes they are trying to implement.
Watching Trump act as the new CEO, sitting at the old CEO’s desk, cavalierly signing executive orders while stunned media asks questions, it recalled those experiences with corporate shakeups and takeovers. In 2016 he was the guy hired over the objections of the senior managers. In 2024 he is the new owner. It is an entirely different atmosphere now compared to then.
All of this has recalled an old idea of America as a corporation. The business of America is business, because America is a business. As such, a way to understand her is through the lens of business. That is the show this week. It is an alternative history of America as a business and a history of the managerial revolution through the lens of the old expression, shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.
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This Week’s Show
Contents
- Intro
- Alternative History
- The Macro Business Cycle
- The Managerial Cycle
- Not All Businesses Fail
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Nearly all businesses fail. Zero Hedge’s very motto is “On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.” Buddha codified the same idea well over two millennia ago in his doctrine of the impermanence of things, that everything has an arising and a ceasing. Ecclesiastes offers much the same wisdom with the famous observation that to everything there is a season. For all the hoopla surrounding Trump 2.0, the grim fact is that at best, he’s fighting a rear guard action against overwhelming odds. At worst, he’s the pawn of the usual powers behind the throne.… Read more »
I mostly thought Trump was there to crash land the plane, not resume flight. In that any relief from Clown World is welcome.
“Ecclesiastes offers much the same wisdom with the famous observation that to everything there is a season.”
Ecclesiastes was penned well before Buddha. Highly recommend reading the whole thing.
Even Gods fail. Just ask Ra.
Many whites have a deep desire that humanity bind itself together as a big corporation ruled by meritocracy. Under this charter, we will have the highest possible productivity and deracinated harmony.
The problem is that no race feels inspired by this vision except whites, generally speaking.
If you throw down your weapons and declare your pacifism, you are in a terrible situation if your competitors don’t follow your example.
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https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64818
The business thing is a reflection of the modern world. Western civ started in the ruins of Rome, became centered in today’s France, came to the British Isles via the Normans, which became the center as power moved from land to sea— the ‘British’ Empire— which moved to America and became centered on DC. Kind of a paradox, the trade thing and this reinvention being enabled by territorial expansion. No more new worlds to colonize, until we get to Mars lol. In the meantime, we have to figure out how to reinvent Western Civ (or maybe a new civ) as… Read more »
The Kennedys have an enormous trust based in Fiji to avoid the American inheritance taxes they helped pass. Pretty much puts the later generations on an allowance that they can’t completely squander.