There are a lot of cork trees here in Portugal. The cork comes from the trees. About 70% of all the cork that is shipped around the world comes from us.So our cork tree is a sign of our forest and is very important to our economy and society. Because of this, the law protects it. But I can tell you that the law is very strict. Plain and easy, you can't cut it down, almost never (but sometimes). If you have a cork tree in your yard, you will be fined if you cut it down, even if it's only in your garden and isn't hurting your house. Yes, there are cork trees all over the country.Even though the law takes into account the cultural and socioeconomic importance, who really gains from it? The firms that sell cork.Large companies, like Corticeira Amorim, which is one of our biggest and the world's biggest cork producer, take over a lot of cork tree fields and cut the cork out of the trees. By law, they have to cut down as many cork trees as they can in order to make more cork. The more cork they ship, the more money they make.
This was meant to show you that businesses are not wandering groups that don't have to follow any rules.
Almost every market and every company has rules. Any change in the law can have an effect, either good or bad, and can cause businesses to rethink their approach or plan.Disturbances in politics have an effect on politics because most of the time they turn into violent protests. Like, the farmers' movement in M.P., where political parties worked together to say bad things about the government, caused damage to both public and private property, such as buses. If there are problems with the government, foreign companies won't want to put money into that country, which makes it hard to do business. When these things happen, the markets are often shut down, which slows down business. India already has a lot of paperwork that makes doing business hard, and now there are two government problems at once, which hurts business. People are less productive at work because of these political unrests, which often involve workers' unions and strikes.Government is not a business, and we should all be involved in it since the decisions it makes affect all of our lives.right now, when we have too much production, we could all afford this very important luxury if our economy was owned and run by all of us freely.Businesses can be thought of as living things.
The main idea is that societies and other complex, chaotic processes can't be fixed.
Any attempt to separate one part will change the structure as a whole, so they can't be studied using standard experiments. That's why managing from the top down doesn't work. You need to deal with the whole system. That can only be done going up from the bottom. This is something that the social planners we have now seem to have forgotten. They go down from the top.Just like how our bodies are like a collection of cells, this picture shows that. Society is made up of many organisms, like people, companies, and the government. Together, they make up a much bigger organism. Anything that changes one part of structure changes the whole thing, just like in our bodies. The important thing to keep in mind is that societies can't run themselves, so we have to use top-down control. Putting together a group of workers and telling them to build a bridge doesn't work without some planning, starting with the engineer who planned it. In the end, though, the "morality" of the workers, builders, politicians, and contractors will determine how good the bridge is. The morals are where the hidden structure is.
Organizations can't be moral because that takes choice, and only people can make choices.
There's another way the bridge comparison can help. If one part breaks, the whole building will fall down. The properties of the materials used are hard to predict because they are like the complicated, chaotic world we live in. Because of this, the engineers have to use big safety gaps that make use of resources less efficiently. In the same way, societies can't have big safety gaps and waste resources efficiently. Our social engineers care too much about safety and not enough about getting things done. The effects of putting resources in one place are hard to predict because complex chaos systems are not always stable. That's how liberal democracy works: decisions are given to the lowest level of social engineering possible, which is the person in the end. It's a kind of bottom-up system that works pretty well. It's not as useful right now as top-down planning, but it fits with how society works naturally.
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