Re: Financial topics
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2018 2:33 pm
I look at it as using agreed-upon and reasonably sounding values/goals as tools to go after people you don't like.
Examples:
Value/Goal: Shootings in the workplace are very undesirable and we must have a violence policy to proactively prevent shootings.
Tool: Use the violence policy to trap employees.
Method: Expand the definition of what may constitute future violent behavior. Target specific individuals but not others.
Value/Goal: Pollution is very undesirable. Specifically, landfills are very hazardous and we must not let any waste leak out of them.
Tool: Use the regulatory process.
Method: Work with government regulators to pass regulations that reflect current operations of large waste companies and that small landfills cannot afford to implement.
Value/Goal: Sexual harassment in the workplace is unacceptable and detrimental to everyone.
We know the rest of the story there. Expand the definition to allow it to encompass non-workplace situations. Expand the definition to include a figment of a female's imagination.
Examples:
Value/Goal: Shootings in the workplace are very undesirable and we must have a violence policy to proactively prevent shootings.
Tool: Use the violence policy to trap employees.
Method: Expand the definition of what may constitute future violent behavior. Target specific individuals but not others.
Value/Goal: Pollution is very undesirable. Specifically, landfills are very hazardous and we must not let any waste leak out of them.
Tool: Use the regulatory process.
Method: Work with government regulators to pass regulations that reflect current operations of large waste companies and that small landfills cannot afford to implement.
Value/Goal: Sexual harassment in the workplace is unacceptable and detrimental to everyone.
We know the rest of the story there. Expand the definition to allow it to encompass non-workplace situations. Expand the definition to include a figment of a female's imagination.