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My first MTL experience with the Ammit. I've been a fan of Geekvape for a few years now, and this rta didn't let down as far as quality is concerned. New to MTL...but I'm mighty impressed with this tank. Leak proof top airflow and a 4ml tank capacity means I can vape for ages between fills. The flavour far exceeded my expectations too. Comes with a pre made coil which came in @ 1.0ohm so wattage is low which means battery life is exceptional. Really happy with my purchase.
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Bought the ammit mtl after reading good reviews. After really enjoying my mini beserker mtl i was looking to change things up & compare flavours/performance etc. Unfortunately i really haven't been able to get the ammit to perform at all. Easy enough to install coils & wick but in use its very gurgly & vape is not being produced well at all.. tightening the air hole doesnt work great either as there are multiple air holes hitting the coil so it does require a decent amount of air to get it to perform.. After trying 3 different coils & a SS variable temp one too i gave up & went back to my mini beserker. My thought is that this item allows a little too much for a restricted direct to lung function & therefore doesnt perform the best for mtl purists... The product itself is top quality & very well made but maybe user error this is just my opinion but it doesnt perform for me...
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MOST LIKED TEASER/TRAILER OF KOLLYWOOD - GUESS WHO IS ON TOP?Home > Slideshows
By Gurumurthy
There has always been a healthy competition between teasers/trailers of movies on YouTube. Here is a list of the most liked teasers or trailers of Kollywood.
- Awesome! Sarkar is already one of the highest in India
- Mersal's thunderstrom record - becomes India's No.1
- Very Important Clarification on Thalapathy Vijay's 63rd film director!
- Lakshmi - Morrakka video song - Vijay, Prabhu Deva & Aishwarya Rajesh!
- "Vijay asked me to do a film with..." - AM Rathnam
- Vijay Fans go crazy for the people's biggest Icon AV
- Mirchi Shiva makes super fun of Vijay and Ajith movie scenes!
- Big important update on Prabhu Deva and Vijay's film!
- Breaking: Varalaxmi's character in Thalapathy's Sarkar!
- Breaking: For the first time for Vijay in Sarkar! More details here
- Thalapathy Tribute: New version of Aalaporan Tamizhan out!
- Breaking: Who is acquiring Vijay's Sarkar Worldwide rights?
- AR Rahman's surprise gift for Vijay fans - Thalapathy 62
- "Tamil Nadu SARKAR Nanga Dhan" | Vijay Birthday Celebrations
- Breaking: Super massive update on Sarkar
- Shiva As Phoenix Paravai | Tamizh Padam 2 - Full Tracklist | CS Amudhan
- THALAPATHY 63: Is Vijay-Perarasu Joining Hands?
- Thalapathy Vijay படம் பண்ண சொல்லி.. | A M Rathnam | Imaikkaa Nodigal | Nayanthara
- Thalapathy Vijay AV | Fans Reaction for The People's Biggest Icon of Tamil Cinema
- Vijay - Bairavaa | List of moments spoofed by the song Naan Yaarumilla from Tamizh Padam 2 - Slideshow
- Vijay - Mersal | List of moments spoofed by the song Naan Yaarumilla from Tamizh Padam 2 - Slideshow
- First Time In Vijay's Sarkar | AR Rahman
- SARKAR Vijay's Mass Entry At A Wedding
- SARKAR Gets MERSAL Twistu | Thalapathy Vijay
- SARKAR's BGM | Massive Surprise For Vijay Fans | AR Rahman
- "Ellarukum Iruku Aapu" | Thalapathy Fans Go Crazy in Rohini Silver Screens | Sarkar
- "Thalapathy SARKAR tha" | Mass Celebrations at Vettri Theatres
- Thalapathy Vijay's Top 15
- அமைதி படைத்த Vijay-யை..... | Parthiepan Wishes Thalapathy
- "Vijay, நாளைய முதல்வர்..." | Sellur Raju on Thalapathy Vijay
This page hosts a weekly slideshow related to Tamil movies. Each slide includes a picture and some description about that picture. All the slides will have a recurring theme. People looking for actress stills, actress images, actor stills, actor images, movie stills, movie images, and other interesting topics, relevant issues in Tamil cinema will find this page useful. Vijay - Mersal - 1M likes | Most liked teaser/trailer of Kollywood - Guess who is on top?.


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leslie burugu Originally published at blog.burugu.xyz on ・3 min read
If you've ever used Go I'm pretty sure you have heard of the term GOPATH. It refers to the internal directory structure that the Go toolchain uses to find source code and packages.
If i have a project called weather and i wanted to
cd into it, i would have to do something like this (assuming my $GOPATH is set to $HOME/go ).
cd $HOME/go/src/github.com/burugux/weather/
This works fine but if weather is a directory you visit frequently typing all that becomes boring,super repetitive and also a little bit annoying.
But wouldn't it be cool if we could just cd weather and we would be able to jump to that directory directly?
Introdcuing CDPATH
It turns out we can actually do that with the help of CDPATH. Learning the bash shell, 3rd eidition defines CDPATH as
The variable whose value, like that of PATH , is a list of directories separated by colons. Its purpose is to augment the functionality of the cd built-in command.
By default CDPATH is not set. To set it up so that we can jump to our Go projects faster we would do something like this
export CDPATH=$HOME/go/src/github.com/$USER/
So what does the above command do? Well it assigns a single value to the CDPATH variable which is the location we would like
cd to use while looking for the directory we are interested in. With that exported if we typed cd weather we would automatically go to
How cool right?😃
However please note that
The above would only work if your github username and $USER are the same. If not, all you have to do is replace $USER with your actually github username.
To make it persitent add the export statement to your .bashrc or .zshrc.
Adding more options
Let's imagine a scenerio where you have multiple projects in your GOPATH which you contribute to and some of them are not under your github username as is usually the case. Using what we have learnt above is it still be possible to jump to those projects quickly without typing the entire path? Yes.
To do that we would pass a second value to CDPATH separated by a colon. For example
export CDPATH=$HOME/go/src/github.com/burugux:$HOME/go/src/github.com/
With that out of the way we would be able to do something like
cd jessfraz/weather
And automatically go to
Neat! 😁
If we had projects from github and gitlab can we still use CDPATH? Again yes. All we have to do is pass a third value to
CDPATH and it would look something like this.
export CDPATH=$HOME/go/src/github.com/burugux:$HOME/go/src/github.com:$HOME/go/src/gitlab.com/
With that i can now do
cd leslie/cool-project
and automatically go to
One caveat to note
If i had a directory $HOME/weather and i typed cd weather while i was at $HOME where would it take me?
./weatherunfourtanely. From softparanoma, If you put a trailing slash "/" on each path in
$CDPATH, you'll "cd" to the local directory. If you don't put a trailing slash on each pathname, you'll "cd" to the first pathname in the
$CDPATHlist that contains a matching subdirectory.
cd into the local directory i would have to do
cd ./weather but from anywhere else i would still be able to do
cd weather and go to
I hope you have learnt something new and are going to use
CDPATH to make your life easier while using the terminal.
Thank you for reading!
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The Human Right
On Sale: 2018-02-20
Price: $24.99
Book Summary
Is There a Human Right Greater Than All Others? Understanding the proclamation of the gospel as a basic human right gives it the preeminence and urgency it deserves.
About the Book
Many Christians believe we need to choose between fighting injustice and communicating the good news of Jesus Christ. But what if failing to speak the truth is ultimately the greatest injustice of all? If we truly believe the human heart is the source of injustice and the gospel is the only real solution, shouldn't sharing the gospel's transforming truth be our highest priority?
With his thoughtful, accessible style, Rice Broocks explores why knowing the gospel is, in fact, every person's greatest right—and therefore the greatest justice issue of our time.Drawing on contemporary stories and rich historical sources, The Human Right
- answers the question, What is truth?
- frames evangelism as a human rights issue,
- explains why secularism lacks the foundation to ground human rights,
- gives evidence for the existence of the human soul, and
- describes how the Bible has shaped the modern world.
The Human Right urges us persuasively toward a renewed conviction that our ultimate calling is to proclaim the gospel—the only truth that has the power to change our world, to change us, from the inside out.
Product Details
- Imprint: Thomas Nelson
- On Sale: 2018-02-20
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Baxter, a global leader in the medical products industry and MedCity, a cluster organisation promoting the growth of the life sciences industry in the greater south east of England are working together to identify innovators interested in bringing their novel technology or innovate ideas to market.
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Pete Schwartzkopf, House District 14
Office sought: State House of Representatives, District 14
Party: Democrat
Age: 63
Candidate statement: I love where I live and I have been the State Representative for the 14th District since 2002. I raised a family here and worked as a lifeguard, 25 years as a State Trooper. Public service and making a difference in our state is my passion.
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The School began as an initiative of the chief Mr.David Kiarie Kairu in consulatation with the Kitito Parish father in charge.
The nursery School classroom was converted into a form one class in february 1980. The first class of 49 students was admitted from 4th february 1980 to 25th september 1980. The first head teacher was the late Gabriel Njau Kabui who managed both Ithanga primary school and the just began secondary section.
The school took its second form one class on 20th january 1981 which was made up of 16 students.Due to lack of qualified staff the school did not admit form one in 1982 and therefore those in form 2 by then later on in 1983 transferred to other schools to join form 3 .
However once again the school admitted its third form one class in 1983 without a form two class who went up to form two in1984.
The fourth form one admission was done on 23rd january 1985 who proceeded to form two in 1985 without any form one admissions.The 1985 form two transferred to other schools in 1986 while the school once again admitted the fifth form one class on 6th february 1986.
from 6th february 1986 the school has continued to date. the first K.C.S.E group was presented in october-november 1989 under Headship of Mr.Njau.
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Welcome to our new reality courtesy of our President...
The New Black Panthers can intimidate voters on camera in front of a polling place and have charges dismissed by the Justice Dept. Bill Richardson can be up to his pointy ears in a "pay for play" investigation and suddenly the investigation is dropped. Terrorists on the battlefield get mirandized even if they just took out a platoon of American military.
BUT... blow secondhand smoke at a suspected terrorist suspect during an interrogation and get investigated by a Special Prosecutor courtesy of AG Holder???? Rev up a power drill near a blindfolded terrorist and go to jail? Threaten to kill the family of a terrorist responsible for killing over 3000 Americans on 9/11/01 and get frog-marched??
I don't know about you but every day brings another travesty committed by the egotistical radical that was elected our President. I shudder to think what our country is going to look like after 4 years of this ineptitude and marxism.
AND where are all those bleeding hearts who gnashed their teeth and tore their clothes at the damage to the CIA ala the "outing" of Valerie Plame? Where are those members of VIPS who called for the head of Karl Rove and Dick Cheney? Aren't they just as outraged about our President tying the hands of the CIA and possibly inflicting damage that will never be undone in regards to intelligence gathering? Doesn't THIS warrant some outrage on their part or is it "no biggie" because it's coming at the hands of the One?
When (and according to the 9/11 Commission it IS a matter of WHEN and not IF) there is another terrorist attack against my country, I will be pointing the finger of blame at Obama and especially AG Eric Holder. That is if we survive the next attack... The blood will be on their hands and they will reap what they have sown.


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Another day, another public official wishing death and dismemberment upon the teenage survivors of the worst school shooting in South Florida history. After a North Miami Beach cop was suspended for calling the Parkland massacre survivors "crisis actors," and a member of the Parkland Education Advisory Board was outed for calling survivor and gun-control advocate David Hogg a Nazi, a Coral Springs cop — who works mere miles from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High — has been suspended for suggesting someone run Hogg and his friends over.
Last week, Hogg held a "die-in" at a Coral Springs Publix to protest that grocery chain's monetary support for Adam Putnam, a gubernatorial candidate who has described himself as a "proud NRA sellout." In response, the GOP-donating Publix temporarily stopped giving money to political candidates. And as a result, 23-year Coral Springs Officer Brian Valenti just sorta casually let it slip that he wouldn't mind if Hogg got run down.
"Hope some old lady looses [sic] control of her car in that lot," Valenti wrote on Facebook. "Jus sayin..."
Thankfully, that didn't happen. Instead, someone alerted the media to the post, and this past Tuesday, Coral Springs Police Chief Albert A. "Butch" Arenal announced Valenti has been suspended for five days.
"Our officers have walked alongside Parkland students providing security during protests, have attended and assisted with events and vigils in Parkland to show solidarity with our kids, and our amazing employees have gone above and beyond the call of duty to be there for our community in a time of need," Arenal wrote in a multiparagraph statement to the public yesterday. "We have also worked at the state level to facilitate positive change to preclude future school shootings from ever occurring. The poor judgment of one employee in one instance should not reflect on our organization as a whole. As chief of police, I sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended by Officer Valenti's post. I am accountable for the actions of all employees who work [for] the police department."
Hogg's die-in — in which he and a group of protesters lay in the supermarket's parking lot to simulate victims of gun violence — came after Publix rocketed from being one of the most beloved corporate chains in Florida to being reviled by the anti-gun left.
As with nearly every other major grocery chain, Publix's corporate stances have always leaned to the far right. The store donates to Republicans, refuses to engage with farmworkers' rights groups in Southwest Florida, has faced repeated anti-LGBTQ accusations, and has fought minimum-wage increases and environmental regulations.
But after the Tampa Bay Times reported that Publix and people tied to the chain have given Putnam an astounding $670,000 over the past three years, Hogg and other Parkland activists pushed gun-safety groups to boycott the chain. Mere days later, the store relented and temporarily suspended political giving.
May 25, 2018
But apparently, Officer Valenti thought he could get away with publicly insulting school-shooting survivors — an idea that, until February, seemed like the sort of thing only psychopaths did. Yet Valenti is far from alone.
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Take, for instance, North Miami Beach Police Officer Ericson Harrell, who was suspended in April after someone noticed he had posted online that the Parkland survivors were "ALL PAID ACTORS / ACTRESSES."
As if that weren't bananas enough, New Times also caught multiple state lawmakers liking tweets insulting Parkland survivors mere weeks after the shooting, while the Tampa Bay Times also infamously outed another since-fired legislative aide who claimed the teens were "crisis actors." Furthermore, New Times in April caught a member of the Parkland Education Advisory Board — a group that gives policy recommendations to that city's council — sharing memes comparing Hogg to a Nazi.
Now, in his statement to the media yesterday, Coral Springs' police chief basically dashed the whole thing off by saying "our bad" and asking for forgiveness. He said Valenti's statement "missed the mark," which is certainly one way of saying, "I'm sorry my cop asked someone to run over a school-shooting survivor."
"While one of our officers clearly missed the mark in this particular situation," Arenal wrote, "rest assured that the Coconut Creek Police Department will work tirelessly to maintain a level of service to our residents and neighbors that not only meets their expectations, but exceeds them."


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'The Voice' recap: Sonic rules early battle rounds
The dreaded battle rounds have arrived on "The Voice."
Having two singers do the same song simultaneously rarely showcases both singers fairly, but it does make for good TV. And this season is no exception, though it would often be more enjoyable to watch Blake Shelton sing and dance to mentor Meghan Trainor's "Lips Are Movin'" more or offer a behind-the-scenes look on what happened to Christina Aguilera's hair for this round.
Here's how the round has shaped up:
TEAM PHARRELL: ANTHONY RILEY vs. TRAVIS EWING, "Get Ready"
Pharrell pits his two promising soulful singers against each other on the Temptations classic, with mentor Lionel Richie explaining to them that being coachable is an important part of the process. The deck seems kind of stacked against Travis, but he uses that to his advantage with a gutsy performance, compared to Anthony's smoothness. Coaches Christina and Adam give the edge to Anthony, while Blake sides with Travis.
PHARRELL PICK: Anthony
SHOULD'VE PICKED: Travis (Stolen by Blake)
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TEAM CHRISTINA: AMEERA DELANDRO vs. SONIC, "Masterpiece"
Christina gives them Jessie J's empowerment ballad, but Sonic runs right over Ameera in both technique and attitude. Sonic was on a completely different level, even though Ameera may have survived a different pairing. Blake and Adam gave the edge to Sonic.
CHRISTINA PICK: Sonic
SHOULD'VE PICKED: Sonic
Argh! We're in montages already. No idea who deserves to move on in the snippets of battles. They don't even get their names on the screen. TEAM CHRISTINA: GABRIEL WOLFCHILD vs. JOE TOLO, "For the First Time" (CHRISTINA PICK: Joe) // TEAM ADAM: DEANNA JOHNSON vs. NICOLETTE MORE, "Love Me Like You Do" (ADAM PICK: Deanna) // TEAM ADAM: JOSH BATSTONE vs. NATHAN HERMIDA, "Thinking Out Loud" (ADAM PICK: Nathan)
TEAM BLAKE: HANNAH KIRBY vs. SARAH POTENZA, "Gimme Shelter"
Blake gives the big-voiced rockers the Rolling Stones classic "Gimme Shelter" and they do not disappoint. They get a standing ovation from all four coaches. "It was almost like if she was Janis Joplin, you were Stevie Nicks," Adam told Hannah. Pharrell said Hannah "came out here swinging her purse like a southern church lady."
BLAKE PICK: Sarah
SHOULD'VE PICKED: Hannah (Stolen by Pharrell)
TEAM ADAM: BLAZE JOHNSON vs. MICHAEL LEIER, "Rude"
Adam gives them Magic's "Rude" for some reason, leading them both to over-sing the lightweight song. Blaze was slightly better, though they both struggled. "I see an upward trajectory for both of you guys," Adam said.
ADAM PICK Blaze
SHOULD'VE PICKED Blaze
TEAM BLAKE: CODY WICKLINE vs. MATT SNOOK, "How Country Feels"
Blake gives the country singers Randy Houser's recent anthem "How Country Feels," which stretches them both. Matt was way more comfortable, with Cody seeming a little too intense. "That felt really good," Christina said. Adam gave the edge to Matt.
BLAKE PICK Cody
SHOULD'VE PICKED Matt
TEAM PHARRELL: MEGAN LINSEY vs. PAUL PFAU, "Don't Let Me Down"
Pharrell said the Beatles classic was the midpoint between their pop styles. "If she doesn't make eye contact, it's over," Lionel Richie said of Megan, who made the adjustment in her performance. However, Paul's interesting voice and charismatic style was a bit stronger.
PHARRELL PICK Paul
SHOULD'VE PICKED Paul (Blake steals Megan)
And from the weird half-blinds, half-battles episode Monday:
TEAM PHARRELL: ASHLEY MORGAN vs. MIA Z, "Put the Gun Down"
Pharrell crafts a great battle with the super-technical Ashley and the super-personable Mia on the ZZ Ward song. They met in the middle so well that the result could have come from a new duo, though Mia still has more star quality. "I think you both are winners," Pharrell said, before picking Mia.
PHARRELL PICK Mia
SHOULD'VE PICKED Mia (Christina steals Ashley)
TEAM ADAM: JAMES McNEIECE vs. TONYA BOYD-CANNON, "P.Y.T."
Poor James has to take on Tonya's big, booming voice on the Michael Jackson classic. That's a task that would crush many a professional. He handles it OK, though Tonya is the real, well, thriller.
ADAM PICK Tonya
SHOULD'VE PICKED Tonya
TEAM BLAKE: BRIAN JOHNSON vs. JOSHUA DAVIS, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
Blake pits his two best male (non-country) singers against each other because he only has room for "one singer to occupy that space." Really? Anyway, mentor Meghan Trainor liked them both and they even bring her to tears in rehearsal of the Bob Dylan classic. "Your tone is ridiculous," she tells Joshua. "Your soul is outstanding," she tells Brian. The gorgeousness of Brian's runs, even on a song that doesn't need one, wins out.
BLAKE PICK Brian
SHOULD'VE PICKED Brian (Adam steals Joshua)
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There are few experiences that can humble you quite like a local homestay. Throughout my time in Japan I wanted to stay at as many local ryokans as possible and one experience that especially stood out was my time with Buddhist monks in Mount Kōya.
Mount Kōya is considered to be one of the most sacred locations in Japan and is a huge temple settlement, home to the headquarters of the Koyasan Shingon School.
Jofukuin Temple
The buddhist temple is one of many religious buildings offering homestays to guests in Wakayama but it was my preference due to their reputation as being one of the cleanest and with great meals. Moreover, they've recently had a refurbishment and although the accommodations are basic, they felt really clean and welcoming.
The price is 10,800 yen per person, which includes both breakfast and dinner. Although a little steeper than some other options in Wakayama, it is for the reasons outlined above.
Your stay at Jofukuin includes both breakfast and dinner, all of which are strictly vegetarian (no meat, no fish!) Both meals were really tasty with way too much food for dinner but before you know it you've sampled a little of everything and nearly eaten everything in front of you!
Around the prefecture of Wakayama there is much more to see and do, especially if time is on your side. I was pretty short on time so spent my day exploring Koya (where the lodge was located) and the many temples that occupy this settlement in the mountains.
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Sunday, December 16, 2007
Cheating in American Baseball
Here is an instance of moral grand corruption.
The ethic of sport - going back to Greek Olympics - was supposed to be in the character of the athlete - in his or her mental effort, self-discipline, skill and courage. Winning was only icing on the cake.
Now winning seems to be all and at any price. A winning record leads to more money, lots more money, in the business of professional sports.
Just like winning in the stock market - to get the most out of it for ourselves, why not take a few performance enhancing drugs? In the world of finance, such drugs are misleading information about a company's prospects. See Enron, WorldCom, et. al.
Misleading information gives a company unfair advantages in the competition for investor interest.
Professional sports in the United States provide moral and ethical standards for a large number of Americans. The behavior - noble or vile - of sports celebrities triggers imitation among the young and, thus, has a public good quality about it. The behavior of such role-models cannot be overlooked by society.
What surprises me is the lack of programs in business ethics for professional sports companies and their employees.
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Like Death and Taxes - there are consequences
Advocates of cash flow as the "summum bonum" of capitalism often take the position, as they must, that there are no negative consequences attendant upon such a course of business enterprise worthy of note.
The assumption they make is that the enterprise is autonomous, separated from society by various walls such that the only costs of material concern are those that show up on the income statement.
Thus, the "costs" of enterprise born by stakeholders – the environment, civil society, customers, employees, investors, creditors – do not count. They can be ignored.
This point of view is very short-sighted and so wrong as several developments here in the
First, in the sub-prime mortgage mess; The consequences of rising foreclosures on home mortgages were set by entrepreneurs who extended mortgages to borrowers who were very much at risk of non-payment when conditions changes. By pushing off risks on borrowers with marginally secure abilities to pay, the originators of the sub-prime lending set off a sequence of developments that carried within its economic logic high risks of social dislocation.
With homes in foreclosure, with the prices of homes dropping for
So, President Bush felt compelled (it's presidential election season as well and his party is not doing well in the polls) to step in. He imposed an emergency freeze on the raising of the interest rates on certain mortgages. The freeze will last for five years.
Nothing could be more alien to his principles of free market autonomy, where private actions without government regulation bring about optimal outcomes for society.
The moral lesson from the sub-prime adventures is: as you sow, so shall you reap. There are consequences for business that don't always show up on the quarterly income statement.
Second, there are recent developments with UnitedHealth Group. This company in
But it then turned out that many of his stock options had been rigged – backdated – to give him even more financial advantage.
When the back-dating was discovered, the Securities and Exchange Commission began an investigation and investors brought litigation. On
He is still left with over $500 million in stock options so he will be able to live for the rest of his life as a gentleman should.
But there were consequences that followed upon his taking short-term financial advantage of the company.
Now, one way in which McGuire's leadership of UnitedHealth Group had led to substantial profits was to squeeze its customers – the insured and doctor's to be paid for their services. As a result of these business practices, the company in recent years lost 315,000 customers this year and angered doctors.
So, as a consequence, it is changing its practices. It will now show doctors and patients on the day of a doctor's visit how a claim will be paid; it will pay doctors more quickly; UnitedHealth employees will be given incentives to put quality and patient advocacy first and productivity (i.e. cash profit) second.
Like death and taxes, consequences cannot be avoided. There is no free lunch in capitalism. Ethics is material to the bottom line.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
In China it's culture, not ethics or CSR
A conference this past week in
The substance of our discussions in
In prior workshops on business ethics in
Something like the assertion of exterritorial legal jurisdiction in
In startling contrast, in this past week's conference and panel discussions, the Chinese asserted conceptual ownership of the subject and fully engaged their minds as well as their emotions.
It appears that, for them, the discussion of "culture" is not a trivial matter.
Which fact, I suppose, should not have come as a surprise to me. After all, Chairman Mao's great effort to shape
In ways that were quite exciting and revealing, speakers and commentators asked basic questions as a starting point on the way to defining appropriate levels of business conduct.
They asked what is human nature? Are people basically sinful and greedy? Do people have a capacity for moral behavior? Can they acknowledge the claims of society on their freedom and autonomy? Don't we have to choose between "profit" on one side and ethical conduct on the other as Mencius argued so many years ago?
I felt as I listened that the objective of the conversation was to find a formula for "market freedoms with Chinese characteristics."
The need to find such a formula is palpable as the Chinese Communist Party is moving more and more beyond Deng Xiao Ping's formula of "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" that justified the program of reform and opening up that began some 30 years ago.
The unstated question in everyone's mind in the conference seemed to be "what kind of company behaviors will maximize market efficiencies and so create wealth but at the same time not be destructive of social harmony and non-financial values?
"Corporate culture" seemed to be assumed to be the meeting point of profit and social responsibility. One participant described the role of culture in a market setting as the brakes to off set too much pressure on the gas pedal. Excessive acceleration – a metaphor for excessive individualism or self-seeking – is tempered by putting on the brakes and keeping the car under the speed limit or safely hugging the road as it twists and turns.
This assumption is not a bad one in my opinion. Culture is a restraint on individualism. Culture is the action of the moral sense within us; culture arises within communities and sustains communities with commonalities of values, behaviors, practices, understandings.
Our discussions in
But the approach to implementation starts with culture – the psychology of the human, the needs and motivations of people - not with debates over moral theory or a list of stakeholder interests.
At the same time, a discussion of "culture" provided a way to reclaim
I very pleasantly felt that the Caux Round Table had a constructive role to play in this conversation as we have in a number of cultures been successful in mapping global standards of ethics and corporate social responsibility to core values within national settings. I was very pleased that our colleagues Dr. Roger Conant, Hiroshi Ishida, Andy Whitford from Westpac Bank, and Brinton Scott from the Fredrickson & Byron law firm office in
It's the same all over
I arrived in
This morning in the paper were two front page stories that caught my attention.
One was about the sentencing to 16 years in prison of a
This story put to me once again the role of character in free markets: cheating is everywhere; laws alone don't stop it; free markets can clear it out only after the truth comes to light.
There would thus seem to be a constant, universal need to focus on ethics, character, personal goals and integrity as a third counter-weight to the human tendency to abuse power in private hands.
The second story was the report of a Chinese government agency that the average temperature in
Systemic temperature rise is prima facia evidence of global warming. It does not provide evidence of the cause or causes of the trend, but does leave us with the fact of a change in our environment.
And, to me, if we don't like the implications of the trend, regardless of its causes, we should be taking steps to moderate the rise in global temperatures.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
where's the protest? Sub-Prime lending excesses as one more failure of capitalism
I don't get it. Violations of honest business practices that produced the scandals at Enron, WorldCom, Health South brought about widespread rejection of short-termist thinking as a basic principle for capitalism. But the current crisis in American credit markets precipitated by rather similar violations of best practices has not provoked a similar degree of alarm and concern.
But the current failure of market-behavior to reach beneficial outcomes is more damaging perhaps to the American economy and society than the scandals of only a few years ago.
The consequences of Enron and related abuses of financial reporting obligations punctured a liquidity bubble in the stock market which led to a large fall in the prices of securities. Employees of Enron in particular, which was forced into bankruptcy suffered heavily and many who were buying stocks in the hopes of a continued rise in prices lost money. Within a few years, however, the markets recovered. Short term losses were made up with longer term gains.
New legislation was introduced mandating better financial reporting and oversight of the auditing function to prevent a re-occurrence of those particular scandals.
But this time, excessive extension of credit to sub-prime borrowers seeking to buy houses has boomeranged into a serious threat to the entire American economy. Investors are in a hurried, unreflective, general flight to quality and so many would-be borrowers are being left without cash and needed working capital to sustain their businesses and to expand the production of goods and services.
The system of finance and credit supports an economy; any dysfunction or retrenchment in this sector undermines the entire society's well-being.
But in particular, the sub-prime crisis has led to more foreclosures on homes, lower housing sales, and falling house values. The poor and the middle class are most affected by this negative move in the activity volume in the housing industry and sectors that depend on consumer demand for housing and related fixtures, etc.
More wealthy Americans have a range of assets at their disposal; the poor and most of the middle class have their houses as their primary source of equity capital. Lower housing prices errode the wealth available to those who need it most, making them more financially vulnerable just as the economy becomes more difficult.
This is not the outcome we should want from modern capitalism.
A price will be paid by those who spawned the excess in risky lending. Both Merrill Lynch and Citibank have lost their CEO's as a result and taken huge write-owns in their equity. And more bad news for the banking and financial sectors and for the owners of derivatives is still to come we hear.
One reassuring point, I suppose, about markets is that reality always sets in. There is no escaping karma; consequences cannot be avoided by wishful thinking. Raising the level of risk by making too many risky loans leads to some degree of risks actually coming true. And somebody must pay the price associated with those losses when they occur.
So it is with every speculative bubble: someday the bubble bursts.
The trouble, I think, with running transactions on a fee basis (some promoter takes some money and runs) is that fees shield the instigators of the transaction from having to live with long-term risk. Their market function is only to put the deal together. Others are left to bear the consequences.
So it was with the aiders and abettors of Enron special purpose entities, excessive investment in telecom and dot-com companies in the late 1990s and with the packagers of sub-prime mortgages and related derivatives.
Where fees are too high and too easily obtained, systemic risk management suffers. This is an iron law of human nature.
Monday, November 19, 2007
A Bucharest Glimpse into the Ethics of Hedge Funds
And the Romanian economy, while growing and birthing a middle class, is more of a transitional economy than a developed one.
The new middle class is putting is disposable income into cars. There are too many for the streets of
A business man has a plan. At least a small one. He owns a parcel of land in the central city and has estimated the cost and earnings of building and maintaining a modest parking ramp – 600 cars – on the site. It will pay off with interest in 5 years. But he can get no investors to finance the project.
Romanians are in a speculative mode; quick turnaround of capital at a good return – get your money back in 6 months at 30% interest.
Asset speculation – whether on financial exchanges, in wartime economies, or in real estate – always leads to trouble. It is built on the twin pillars of unrealistic valuations and "irrational exuberance" – the human propensity to gamble when facing the prospects of making easy money. It is a dysfunction that undermines the rationality of capitalism and pre-dated the emergence of capitalist production and systemic accumulation of invested wealth.
While in
But not for parking ramps, needed infrastructure and other long-term payoff projects.
The effect of the hedge funds is to further distort Romanian economic priorities towards short term speculation.
Is this really very helpful?
Sunday, November 18, 2007
The UN Panel Report on Climate Change
My first response to the release of the report on Global Warming by the UN Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change was, for me, a new thought – one no doubt well understood by others before me.
The general recommendation as to the continued human release of green-house gases is two fold: one, to switch our source of energy away from hydro-carbons and, second, to use less energy. The second alternative seems, at first, merely a prescription to increase the cost of energy in order, through the supply/demand mechanics of classical micro-economic theory, to reduce energy consumption.
This alternative is not welcomed by many who link increased cost of a basic input for global production to lower global output and reduced wealth creation.
However, the flip-side of less use could be higher productivity.
The wage rates for labor have risen steadily with industrialization and post-industrialization as rates of productivity rose and rose.
Less and less units of labor were needed for production of the same quantity of output, so per-unit labor costs could go up without triggering higher prices for consumers. Each unit of labor contributed to the production of more and more goods and services.
Productivity increases for labor inputs came with the introduction of capital improvements to the means and methods of production. With machines and other supplements to human handiwork the value generated for society by each working individual grew exponentially. Adam Smith understood that this increase in output through specialization was the origin of the wealth of nations.
Should we not apply this same thinking to our inputs of energy as well as of labor?
If we make energy more productive – getting more from each joule and kilowatt, each amp and BTU, then might we not enjoy growing prosperity with less energy consumption?
A higher cost for each unit of energy consumed would not necessarily lead to higher total costs for consumers and reduced growth for the world.
The action step that should flow from taking this point of view would be at a minimum better measurement and public disclosure of energy efficiency in all uses of energy.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
What if we measured a community's capitalized income stream?
As I was sitting during our 22nd Caux Round Table Global Dialogue in
What occurred to me was a thought form of the community as a system of cooperation to achieve better outcomes in this world for its members. How would we measure the success or failure of such a venture? What would be its bottom-line metrics?
Well, in the first place they would be mostly intangible – quality of life, educational achievement, health – mental as well as physical, culture, morality, happiness, in addition to wealth, infrastructure, rule of law etc.
Then I thought what if we got simple and looked to the income flow of the community – to the entire amount of earnings that flowed to its members in a year. The more income, the higher the capital value of the community. Lower income would result in a lower capital value.
We would need to arrive at a capitalization multiplier to apply to the income stream to establish the capital value number – a million dollars income X 10 would be a capital value of ten million. If the capitalization multiplier were higher, the community would be worth more; if the multiplier were less, the community would be worth less.
So what? I then thought.
Well, if a community has higher income or a higher capitalization multiplier, it could do more – pay more in taxes, buy more goods, spend more on culture, public health, education, obtain a more reliable and fulsome social safety net, build better roads, buy newer, more sustainable technologies, take better care of the environment. In short, with more money, it could provide for more social justice.
And, further, higher value would mean that members of the community would be able to move up Maslow's scale of needs and motivations from satisfaction of the material to cultivating more abstract concerns for meaning and purpose.
The capitalization multiplier would be some measure of social capital – the risk of loss or harm to the income flow as against the chance of increasing progress and success.
But with respect to both earning income and having a high capitalization multiplier, business would be central to community justice. Business – of all forms – is the primary generator of income for any community.
We might do well, therefore, to value well what business can do for us and so work to minimize its harmful externalities.
Just a thought.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
What is so culturally different about American Capitalism?
In so many conversations about the ethics of business, corporate social responsibility, and social safety nets – especially in Europe – American capitalism has been singled out as being more harsh than other national versions of the free market economic system.
It does seem to be true that the voice of free market fundamentalists is stronger in American culture and politics than it is in the
For these American secular fundamentalists, as seems to be the case for many other kinds of fundamentalism, a sense of self-righteousness about their beliefs and behaviors is palpable in their conversations and their judgments. They are convinced that wealth elevates and brings with it moral redemption.
So, for example, from this perspective, government taxation of private wealth is an invasion of one's personal righteousness and an attack on one's meritorious achievements. The approach is a curious blend of materialism and spiritual superiority, but it galvanized the politics of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, among others.
At the level of the corporation, this creed holds that seeking bottom line financial profits is sufficient to meet moral expectations of right conduct in business.
Where did this fundamentalism in business ethics come from?
I think I have finally stumbled across the foundational experience of this special American approach. It was in the 1880's, especially in the year 1883 when Yale Professor William Graham Sumner wrote an article entitled "What Social Classes Owe to Each Other".
Sumner created a fusion of old American Calvinism and Herbert Spencer's Social Darwinism. The mixture proved to be a heady and powerful brew for subsequent generations of Americans. It became the gospel of the Republican Party which used it to win many elections.
Calvinism had sought eternal salvation from sin through faith and submission to the grace of Jesus Christ. Calvinists were sober, hard working, honest, reliable, trustworthy and, therefore, good credit risks. They gave birth to modern capitalism in
Calvinism did not set out to create the material advantages of capitalism; rather it appears that capitalism evolved as an unexpected consequence of Calvinist beliefs and behaviors. (This is the thesis of Max Weber, which is noted but controversial, especially on the part of Marxists.)
On the other hand, Herbert Spencer writing in 1851 did not seek to prove the truth of religious beliefs. He was a materialist looking for scientific laws about evolution and necessary human behaviors. Spencer argued that human society was a struggle where the fittest would survive best.
Sumner, in the American Calvinist tradition where correct conduct led to worldly success, fused Calvin's theology with Spencer's fascination with competition. Sumner asserted that those who succeeded in the capitalist race for wealth did so because of their character. They were worthy and so their dedication, self-sacrifice, and shouldering of risk were rewarded as if by the laws of nature and nature's God with material success.
Those who did not succeed, suggested Sumner, were not morally worthy. They were slackers, he said, and received the just deserts of their inferior aptitude for virtue. Their sinfulness, as it were, produced their lower socio-economic condition.
We might say that Sumner's vision has it that God loves winners; those who gain wealth are winners; those who don't are losers; God doesn't love them and so neither should we.
In particular, both Spencer and Sumner vigorously opposed public programs to tax the rich and subsidize the poor. As Sumner put it, the upper social class owed nothing to the lower class. How clear, simple and harsh. He wanted to "put down schemes for making 'the rich' pay for whatever 'the poor' want.
Sumner said that to learn how to live happily we should investigate "the laws of nature and deduce the rules of right living in the world as it is." These rules, he said, call for labor and self-denial (how Calvinistic!) repeated over and over again in learning and doing.
Sumner concludes at one point: "Hence it appears that the man who has his self-denial before him, however good may be his intention, can not be as the man who has his self-denial behind him."
To the victor in the competition demonstrating self-denial go the spoils. He or she becomes the successful capitalist and has wealth to prove his good character.
For Calvin, possession of a character worthy of God's grace led to other worldly salvation; for Sumner, the American, possession of that same worthy self-discipline, humility and resolve led to capital accumulation and victory in the race of life in this world.
For Sumner then, as for many American social conservatives today, it is not the proper place of government to rearrange what nature and God have ordained.
So American "cowboy" capitalism may not be just run-of-the-mill Social Darwinism, but more exactly a kind of Calvinistic Darwinism.
Friday, October 5, 2007
GM's new union contract - a revolution in capitalism?
A revolution in the modalities of capitalism just happened in the American auto industry and few took notice.
General Motors Corp., a once hugely successful manufacturer of automobiles, negotiated new terms of employment with its union. No doubt, union acceptance of these new terms was forced by the downturn in GM's profitability and financial prospects.
This year, for the first time, foreign brands captured more than 50% of the domestic American market for automobiles, with
Under the new contract, the United Auto Workers accepted responsibility for payment of health-care needs of retired GM employees, some US$51 billion in future expenses. For its part, GM financed these future costs with a one-time contribution of US$35 billion into a trust fund. The fund will be managed by the union. Income from the fund will pay future health-costs of GM retirees.
By removing from its balance sheet this liability for future costs, GM no longer needs to reserve against such future expenses out of current income. It will become more profitable immediately, or it can cut the prices of its cars to better compete against foreign brands.
The revolution in capitalism inherent in this innovation has two aspects: first, the employer – the capitalist – is no longer put in the position of providing full and fair life-outcomes for its workers. The relationship between capital and labor becomes less adversarial. In classical 19th century capitalism, for the company to gain, its workers must lose, and vice-versa, in a zero-sum competition for a share of enterprise profits. Now, once these future liabilities have been off-loaded from the company to the union, workers - through their union - must look more to their own welfare.
The company can more easily look to the market for pricing signals and brings its costs in line with customer preferences. And from the worker's perspective, there will be less reason to load all their financial hopes and expectations on the company's shoulders, forcing it to lose market share through higher costs. With alternative structures protecting their interests, workers can be more market savvy, in line with company needs and objectives.
Second, once unions provide health-care benefits for retirees, they are aligned in concept with provision of other long-term advantages for workers, such as life-long learning, skill enhancements, relocation assistance upon layoffs, etc.
The unions can plan to meet the financial, intellectual and retirement needs of workers more independently and creatively. This challenge, if well met, will give workers new reasons to value union membership as a kind of life-long cooperative to enhance the capital values – skills, educational accomplishment, savings, etc. – that they bring to global competition.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Who is on the central committee of the American ruling class?
An old chestnut of the Marxist left had it that captains of industry were the central committee of the ruling class in capitalist societies. The mythic stereotype persists in progressive circles that what is wrong with society flows from the selfish proclivities of its ruling elite – an elite that, in capitalist societies, grows out of business as lichens on a rock.
Remove the elite, this theory goes, and all will be well, or at least much better.
This month's Vanity Fair magazine in the
The magazine identifies the 100 members of the New American establishment. Where do they come from?
Thirty one made their money in or through
Fifteen come from the world of fashion (Gucci, Revlon, etc.).
Nineteen from the media.
Eighteen from Wall Street or other finance and investment houses.
Nine from business – but consumer businesses like computers, Google, Walmart, Sony, Amazon.com, Starbucks.
Three held political office, but those one was from media and another from
Then there were five outliers - an architect, a casino owner, a philanthropist, an advertising mogul, and a Russian Oligarch.
This list hardly looks like the traditional capitalist conspiracy to squeeze out the surplus from the sweat of peasants and proletarians.
The themes of success here are: consumer self-indulgence, celebrity, low-brow entertainment, and easy money taken from all those tempted to speculate in securities. Kind of a disparagement of American values and standards if you ask me.
Of course, Vanity Fair does not represent your top of the line Marxist sociology or even very good class stratification analysis. But it does reflect well its own cultural biases.
It reveals the commanding heights (again to use old Marxist terms) of the post-industrial society.
I am not sure what systematic role there might be within this elite for business ethics or corporate social responsibility. Warren Buffet and Bill and Melinda Gates, however, were included in the group and they are major philanthropic donors now. So all is not lost.
Monday, September 17, 2007
No Free Lunch
Out of concern to reduce greenhouse gas production and hold off global warming, many are turning to the use of ethanol for a fuel. Ethanol in the United States is made from corn. Demand for ethanol is pushing up the price of field corn. This makes some farmers very happy.
But not all farmers. The corn farmer's win is the hog farmer's loss - and the dairy farmer and those who feed cattle for the slaughterhouses. Corn is a cost for these farmers, so higher corn prices mean lower profits for them or higher prices for consumers of meat and dairy products.
The National Corn Growers Association is lobbing the Congress for more ethanol production but the meat and dairy lobbyists are opposed.
Prices are like that; they divide to conquer. A high price is good for some and bad for others and vice-versa. It is hard to think of a price that can keep everyone happy in the status quo. Prices change and such changes impact standards of living, use of technology, accumulation of savings, etc. Markets are constantly shifting opportunities and upsetting establishments. They are demanding and uncompromising. Some would say disciplined while others call them immoral and insensitive to human needs.
One has to be nimble and flexible to ride the currents of markets without capsizing. Facing up to the need for change, for invention, adaptation, is a character trait and an intellectual ability. Surviving in a market environment is a return on human capital.
But it also takes finance capital. Having a rainy day fund makes it more probable that new opportunities will be found and used when prices shift against status quo expectations.
Steve Young
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
For Samuel P. Huntington
We have academics by the droves and more graduating every year but where are the ideas that drive civilization to its highest and best uses?
As modern society specializes more and more, sub-divides and compartmentalizes to get better mastery of technique, great and grand ideas are more and more marginalized and pushed to the sides of our consciousness. Nowhere is this more true than academia where professionalization in specialities leads to promotion.
Prof. Samuel P. Huntington over a decade ago put forth an idea - is there an inevitable clash of civilizations? His vision of a problem has colored our lives and policies after the collapse of Communist and the rise of sectarian fundamentalism and ethnic zenophobias.
Sam was my tutor 40 years ago in my senior year of undergraduate study. I have kept in touch, not regularly but fondly, now and then over the years. Sam has remembered me and been warm and helpful in our subsequent meetings.
But I learned yesterday that he is not well and most likely will be unable to contribute any more "ideas" to academia and global civilization.
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi. All must pass and this too will pass.
But right now I feel a deeper sadness over the sumbolism of this loss - where are the ideas? How will we move forward for our children and grandchildren without ideas? How will we find courage and the will to work for a common good without profound thoughts and understandings?
If all is trivialized, then everything about us, in us, around us, will be trivialized.
I feel grateful to have worked with and been challenged by Sam Huntington.
And I hope our work at the Caux Round Table will always gather in and promote "ideas" in the face of all that seeks to marginalize our humanity.
Steve Young
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Look what the cat brought in!
Globalization has its fans and its detractors. Human trafficking around the world has indeed spread new technologies and changed living conditions. But transportation as a human contrivance has its drawbacks as well.
I think of invasive species coming into the United States through international commerce: the Zebra mussel and Dutch Elm Disease and now Asian pythons loose in the Florida swamps and doing very well in their new habitat to the distress of older occupants.
But a visit to Cracow yesterday brought me an example of humans as invasion species. There is now a booming trourist trade from the UK and Ireland of people coming just to Cracow for a weekend to get as drunk as their bodies can stand. They fly in on cheap discount airline flights. They get so drunk they fall over over the streets around the old market square.
A brochure in my hotel room advertised the "booze cruise" - you sign up for a cruise on the river to get so drunk that you can't walk - but the boat has chaperons at the railing to keep you from falling in the Vistula River. But you are assured by the brochure, no matter what, the booze will keep flowing.
Cracovians are less than pleased with this turn in their tourist market. One said to me: "This is not what we had in mind when we joined the European Union."
They also worry over a Gresham's law of tourism - offensive tourists drive away the good ones.
and cheapen in all manner of ways the community that seeks to live off the largess of strangers.
Entrepreneurial cost-cutting as an innovation in service delivery has led to this threat to an existing environment. Do these innovative carriers have some social responsibility to correct the external costs to older Cracow customs and habits that their actions have caused?
Should they raise fares to reduce demand for the service? Screen their passengers? Demand damage deposits payable to the city of Cracow?
Should Cracow impose a tax on drinks? Ask tourists to get a license in order to drink within city limits?
Steve Young
Sept 9, 2007
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Lessons from Warsaw
The Polish economy has been growing by 6% a year. Poland is part of the European Union - a full citizen of Europe at last.
The significance of all this: capitalism works; it really works. It is a system of human activity that meets human needs and grows and expands, changes and diversifies.
Is capitalism perfect - a heavenly ideal realized here on earth? No way. As a human system it is prey to all the errors and follies that the species exults in. Like any of us seeking to be better, it needs ideals to shape and constrain its ambitions, systems of checks and balances to keep it from excess, and laws and regulations to minimize its abuses of power.
It is always a work in progress. As is said about the price of liberty, eternal vigilance is also the cost of a moral capitalism.
Steve Young
Sept 6, 2007
Monday, September 3, 2007
Labor Day in America
I associate Labor Day with American Capitalism. As I remember, it was initiated to discourage American workers from celebrating May 1st, the day set aside by the Socialist International for honoring and elevating working men and women in the early phase of global capitalism.
The American political elite wanted no truck with socialism and, as a result of this political agenda, set aside a day for labor to be honored within a free market capitalism where individualism and rights of free association were regarded as correct socio-economic scripture.
Socialism is now discredited and Communism is dead. So May 1st seems to have become a superfluous holiday.
So too in many ways has "labor" day. "Labor" as a factor of production is becoming an historical artifact. Workers and employees will always be a part of product - but "labor" with its connotation of physical human efforts, sweat, and drudgery is less and less part of employment - especially highly paid employment.
Value in the free market increasingly goes to forms of capital - not physical power paid for as a commodity in hourly or daily units. Finance capital gets higher and higher returns. The rising share of national income in the United States held by the well-to-do is to a great extent a reflection of their participation in securities ownership and the rising return to securities over the last 40 years.
Reputation capital - brand equity - gets a good return.
Human capital - productive, education, specialized employees - gets more return than human labor power.
Management skills - human relations skills - bring more than assembly line or trade union work. White collar is more pervasive these days than blue collar.
Knowledge, invention, intellectual property rights - all get higher returns these days.
Manufacturing as a share of national income in the US is declining - not just because of outsourcing to low cost producers, but as a result of the information and computer chip revolution in human civilization. Just as agriculture in the US now absorbs a tiny fraction of the work force - about 2% I think - (once it was over 80% before the industrial age got going), manufacturing done under modern conditions takes in fewer and fewer workers. Each worker is more productive and can command higher wages, but the number of workers needed in shrinking.
In short, employees are moving from costs on the income statement to becoming an asset on the balance sheet.
In consequence, our entire way of thinking about workers and employees needs to change. If they are capital assets for society, then we need to ensure that they are properly "capitalized" - with life long education, good health care, with their own retirement savings accounts, with easy access to finance capital to start their own businesses. And, moreover, the wellbeing of our workers - those who have a large responsibility in making capitalism work - is important to us all.
Steve Young
Friday, August 31, 2007
What price virtue?
Is it the quality of our intentions? Do we act from good motives or think the right thoughts?
Is it compliance with a norm or rule? Do the right thing!
Is it making a utilitarian contribution to society and the world?
In terms of markets, the question is often asked: if we pay somebody to do something and they response to our economic incentive, are they acting virtuously? Or just out of greed? Greed is presumed by many to be both unworthy and destructive of the common good. The Christian Apostle Paul wrote that the "love" of money is the root of all evil.
So, what are we to think of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's new experiment in New York City?
He will pay parents to be good: $50 for getting a library card; $100 to take a child to the dentist; $25 for attending partent teacher conferences; $100 per family for preventive health screenings; $150 a month for having a full time job.
Suppose a parent responds positively and changes his or her behavior to get the money. Is this change of behavior good or bad? For the parent? For the child involved? For New York City? For the World?
And, if the utilitarian consequences of such payments are good for all, then why should we care about the inner springs of motivation that bring them about?
I can see that at the level of society utilitarian advantages should be supported and the incentives that produce them applauded and used.
But should such a calculus be used at the level of the individual?
If we care about the individual and his or her perfection into a meaningful and happy life, then should not our conern for their motivations take a higher priority?
And their ethical orientation can't really be separated from their "ethos" - their culture and material conditions of life.
I feel that it can be right to change people's "ethos" with material incentives to trigger good and constructive behaviors that can become habitual and draw along with them a new sense of personal identity and accomplishment.
Afterall, sociologists have long observed that norms need to be reinforced and enforced by institutional arrangements of reward and punishment.
Steve Young
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Chinese scandals
The better way to go is by adding value, moving up the value chain.
Chinese difficulties show once again that low prices demand cheap inputs, low wages, exploitation of some factor of production, ignoring externalities. Seeking to compete with low prices is a road straight to some kind of dysfunction. One of those low-cost inputs will, in time, bite you badly. Avoidance of long-term responsibility in lowering costs over and over again does not bring sustainable success.
Steve Young
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Casinos and capitalism
A lot of money changes hands in gambling every day around the world. And, a lot on money changes hands every day in securities markets too. Gambling has long been condemned by moralists as a vice but securities markets are key to getting the benefits of economic growth and higher standards of living.
Casinos nourish with care and skill our propensity to fall for "irrational exuberance." In casinos on Native American reservations here in Minnesota I have watched as the room of slot machines empties of patrons as the house wins over and over. Then, suddenly, as if by accident some machine gives forth a big payout. Bells ring, lights go one and off and - patrons rush back into the room to jump on the bandwagon by giving up more coinage.
One casino in Wisconsin advertised that it had the "loosest slots around" - paying back $.97 for every $1.00 wagered. It was a 100% guaranteed losing proposition for customers on average, but the ads worked - people came convinced that they would be the ones to beat the average.
So what drives gambling? Some greed gene in our core personality that drives us on beyond where mature consideration would take us? It is only about the money? I think not. Gambling allows us to think that we might be special, different, lucky, graced with inner advantage. We like, perhaps need, that feeling.
And there is the thrill of risk, of walking on the edge, of life having tension and excitement, of anticipation for the unexpected. "Maybe this time ... Look at me. I'm a daredevil and you're not!" It is a feeling of exuberance, somewhat rational actually, that we enjoy. Gambling is a kind of distraction and entertainment. It's more than the money, its the odds.
Capitalism is different; it is time on task.
Money is to be made in business, to be sure; and for some a desire to have money is a key driver of behaviors. But the profit incentive must be encased in relationships to bring about the desired result of wealth.
Gambling is all about me; capitalism is about us.
Steve Young
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Another asset bubble - how come?
In today's (Sunday August 26th) New York Times, it said that "Many government officials and housing-industry executives had said that a nationwide decline would never happen."
So, what happened?
Cheap credit which brought higher risk borrowers into the mortgage market.
Where did the cheap credit come from? Who wanted to take on higher risks at lower prices? It doesn't make sense.
Actually, very smart people came up with this seemingly unwise investment proposition. In fact, they were basically the same very smart people who lead the investment boom of dot.com companies and telecoms and the irrationally exuberant markets of the mid to late 1990s.
In the
But too much money flowed in for too much risk and when the excesses were discovered, the money flow dried up.
A second force building the credit bubble supported by home equity values also came from smart people - they arranged a sharing of the risk so that the high risk could be put off on to the shoulders of those who had the financial assets to absorb it should things go wrong. Or, at least that was the theory.
The recurring weakness of free market financial capitalism (the tulip bulb mania in 17th century
When the fever is on the market, new sources of liquidity come into play, driving up prices as more and more players seek to profit from the mania. Then, as always, liquidity runs out; the smart money people realize that there is no "there" there and pull back. Prices fall until a stable point is reached were market values more correctly approximately intrinsic values.
Now private equity, hedge funds, and buyouts have piled on where home mortgage lending lead the way. Too much leverage, too much debt in relation to the underlying fundamentals.
So now we are in a necessary correction for a time.
The real correction, necessary, however, is to figure out some self-correcting prudence that could be built into financial markets and temper episodes of "irrational exuberance."
Steve Young
Thursday, August 23, 2007
And what about Iraq?
So, what about Iraq from a Caux Round Table point of view?
I would start any such analysis with our ethical Principles for Government - our suggested basis for justice and civil peace in all nations.
Our fundamental principle is that public office is a public trust.
Good government is about trust - having the trust of the people for discretionary decisions; trusting the people; holding power as a trust - not for personal, ideological, sectarian, special interest reasons - but to serve those who depend on government for weal or woe, giving them security and opportunity.
Iraq today just doesn't have much trust; its supposed national government is not a public trust for most of the people. Some 2 million Iraqis who value stable, just civil society have fled the violence and sectarian killings. Those who remain don't evince much capacity to trust other Iraqis.
So from the CRT perspective, Iraq doesn't have in place the first principle of good government. Starting from that point and trying to get somewhere closer to having the writ of effective good government run throughout the country seems rather hard to do.
Steve Young
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Getting started
So the idea came - one with the times - of starting a blog to further our net of conversations and dialogue partners.
We plan to post some thoughts each day and respond as quickly as we can and as best as we can to the thoughts and observations of others.
I have found that the CRT core values - kyosei, human dignity, stewardship - and its Principles for Business and Government reach out and touch almost every daily event in the news, every business transaction that gets discussed, books and opinion pieces, and just ordinary conversations about politics, how to make money, who is doing what to whom, and what has meaning.
A blog seems a good way to touch lightly and briefly on many of these intersections between our values and principles and life as it is lived around the world.
I hope this space will draw comment and become an honest conversation about important ideas and helpful actions.
Steve Young
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