Workplace Morals

For the past week or two we have been talking about Nietzsche, Marx, and Sartre. With the tree men there are three philosophic outlooks. Nietzsche says that the Bougeoise and Proletariot are nothing more than the products of a capitalistic system. The comparison between the birds of prey and the sheep is now Nietzsche paints a picture of this as says that the strong can only show their strength as nothing more than strength. Marx and Sartre try and throw morals into the equation only because they are weak. By persuading Nietzsche, or birds of prey, that they are weak by using the weak to do their work or by preying on them, Marx and Sartre flip flop the view of strength and power. Sartre goes to even say that it is all about freedom. The freedom of choice whether to show your strength as strength or to not show. This is impossible according to Nietzsche. What i found interesting about the whole symposium that took place what how hard it is to rationally talk to someone who has no morals. When someone you are trying to persuade has no morals, nothing is right or wrong it just is. With the example of the entrepreneur, employees wonder why they do not get paid what the owner does. This is silly to expect that you would get paid the same as the boss. If over time your were elevated to a higher position then that is understandable, but unless you take the risk and understand what is going to happen if you put everything on the line, then there is the possibility that your annual income will be higher. Not all companies pay minimum wage. Henry Ford would pay his employees more than the other companies so that over time they could purchase an automobile that the possibly worked on during the production process. This gave them a connection to the work and the reward that they were getting in the end. Nowadays companies are not worried about their employment coming or going because there is always someone else who is willing to work. Most of the time there is no say whether we would work or not. Companies send their business overseas taking labor from China or Mexico not even allowing us the opportunity to work. Overall I personally think that our whole system is corrupt. We rely to much on the "all might dollar" to save us instead of on our abilities to tend the land and help others.