Use common sense – down with business schools

We cannot produce leaders and innovators by sending people to business schools, whence they emerge with mind-boggling jargon and little else.

An educated person is one with a knowledge of human nature, capable of rising above private interest and class, willing to work for the public good, capable of judging political arguments on their intrinsic merits,  unimpressed with anti-deluvian religious messages (viz.  creationism as a typical example), and determined that inequality is a cancer on society.

You cannot get educated at a business school, but you can get admitted to the club and your brain suitably washed, like in some masonic lodge, into the thought processes and principles of ultra-capitalism. I remember sitting in class listening to a lecturer, in all seriousness, propounding the theory that British CEOs had to earn the same as American CEOs because “talent is an international market”.   Playing leapfrog is what I call it.  It took taxpayers to bail out the “talented ” people in General Motors and the big banks.  But these CEOs of these organisations still earn 243 times as much as the median worker in 2012.  Some game of leapfrog!  The blame lies with business schools, with Board members personally appointed by the CEOs themselves, and rules that make executive pay suggestions of shareholders “advisory” only).

Meanwhile the public hopes to earn 243 times their neighbors’ salaries and can’t see that the whole system is corrupt.

Epicurus would not argue with capitalism, only with its ridiculous extremes.  The Emperor actually has no clothes.  It’s just that the populace prefers not to see the over-weight and over- paid bodies.

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