Monday, October 17, 2011

Thoughts on killing the economy

In a blog from the Smirking Chimp,  Bob Burnett conveys his thoughts on how accountants or (parasites as he calls them) have been killing our economy from their positions in modern corporations. For instance at one point he said that one of dell's accountants had caused Dell to give itself away to a Taiwanese supplier, and because of this the number crunchers had now predicted that because of the out-sourcing Dell can't create any new innovative technology which is needed to help rebuild the economy. Now this article had caught my attention because i was curious to see what the author had to say about this issue, and from what i read in his article it was pretty hard hitting against the big industries. As for his credibility on this subject i would say that he has some background in being in a big corporation in Cisco where he was a technologist and a founding executive, so in other words i think that he could support his argument. I would have to agree with his statements on the outsourcing considering that if we didn't have all of our major corporations partly managed in foreign countries then we could accomplish so much more and create a much smaller dependence on outsourcing keeping the american citizens employed and circulating the economy more than it is at the moment. Now as for the way Bob Burnett adresess the accountants in many of the big American corporations  , he makes them seem as if they are all heartless criminals that are souly bent on trying to maximize numbers, and the way they achieve this is at any cost that involves workers jobs, benefits, and profitability. I don't agree with the way that he attacks the these accountants, i mean yes they do report fiscal profit and try to manage the economic aspect of the company that they work at, but what he fails to remember is that they aren't at the top of the corporate latter. The head of the corporation is still the CEO and any and all changes or ideas must be passed by the head before anything is finalized, much like our justice system when someone tries to pass a bill. Other than the cruel attacks on the accountants, Bob does an impressive job on proposing where the problem lies in these corporations, which he says is the lack of entrepreneurs and full employment that was caused by the accountants. I believe that he has a valid point about the entrepreneurs being removed from the equation because without any real innovation in the states we don't have much to make that can help us back home when we are having to rely on foreign tech from Japan or Korea. I believe that Bob's audience is all of the small business's and hard workers that have been effected by this attack on our economy and if there was any way to help bring the economy back we have to fix the inequality issue.

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