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Sunday, December 02, 2007 - (see all news for this day)
for business or for people? - 03:10 PM
(filed under 'general')
it's so difficult to tell, these days, which businesses are truly interested in helping people—& making a reasonable living from it at the same time, & i have no problem with that—& which ones really are in it only for the money & bugger the consequences for everyone else.
news & media reports of almost any kind can be twisted to prove any viewpoint you choose, so who do you believe? surely everyone, even individuals not involved in that business, has a vested interest in one viewpoint or another, so how do you get the full story?
statistics & studies are the same. you can use them, depending on what information is analysed & what's not, & which results are released & which ones are not, to prove almost anything.
do the individuals in any large company, even the ones higher up, know the full story? if a company is large enough, then how can any one person really have full knowledge of the inner workings of its business?
you could say that asking around & getting public opinion is a good way to find out how reputable a company is, but then if that company is as large as, say, coca-cola, 3M, microsoft, then their carefully engineered reputation & influence is enough to pull the wool over the eyes of the the majority of the world, so you still can't get the truth.
it's frustrating, confusing & depressing.
I'd say that relationships with most businesses are parasitic rather then symbiotic. Basically it comes down to.."what's in it for me?"
I know exactly what you mean. I think that may be why Warren Buffet gave all that money to Bill and Melinda Gates because they had spent the necessary amount of research to know where they wanted their money (our money lol), to go. It isn't easy and really well intentioned wealthy people can be just as gullible as the rest of us.
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so true. the media is so biased and tell a story in a manner to have you believe what they want you to. one can hear a story on one network and get an opinion, then switch to another network, hear the same story, and have an opposite opinion. i only read the facts of a story and let the "editorial" crap alone. somehow the media thinks we are the sheep and they are the shepard. sorry guys, I BELONG TO ME!!! and you can't have me. (now i feel better)