Can we please just abolish multi-national corporations, banks, and just localize everything? I feel like all the big-boys are the ones suffering now, and there also the ones laying people off, obviously because they employ the most people, but all I've heard about is GM this, Citi-Group that, Starbucks, General Electric, etc. Valencia's taco shop down the road isn't closing, I'm sure it's doing just fine. Fiji Yogurt, a small frozen yogurt shop, has four locations now, it's doing great. I was at a small Mexican restaurant early Saturday afternoon and it was packed. I was at a small local cafe at 1 AM the other night, also packed.
So, let's see some more small businesses! I'm sure there are so many ridiculous and completely unnecessarily complicated reasons why it's hard to start a small business now, but it should be done anyway!
I really don't care about any of the actual science behind business, but having a company that spans entire countries, or the world just seems unmanageable. I don't know or care how they do it, but I just feel, generally speaking, it would be easier to manage at a smaller scale. Jobs wouldn't be so easily expendable if managers knew all their employees and they weren't just a number on a sheet of paper being fired from corporate headquarters 2,000 miles away.
When I was a kid I feel like every store I shopped at was a local store, and that seemed fine with me. Now there are chains everywhere, and because they're so prevalent and cheap we think it's great, but I get the sense we could really do without them. I think, historically speaking, everything that's ever gotten too big and powerful has failed. The Roman Empire, all those Chinese dynasties, the Yankees dynasties, Nazi Germany, etc etc. There can't be any such thing as exponential growth forever. It just doesn't make sense in any type of industry or... anything in life.
So let the big companies fail! Then all those people who lose their jobs can start new stores in their home towns. Say you work for Toys-R-Us, if you lose you job, start a new toy store, bring along a few coworkers too. Sure, it takes money and hard work, but this is America, we were built on hard work.
I'm not sure if this makes any sense economically or whatever, but I don't care. That isn't the point. This is the point of view of some one who doesn't know the first thing about "business," that's the point, maybe the answer to our problems lays outside the view of business types. Maybe someone creative should shoot some ideas at some CEOs or something. I don't know. I didn't really think any of this out, it's just thought vomit.
Also! Big companies=big greed. The guys at the top make so much money, then they complain about losing money, obviously that's been pointed out, but it seems like these companies exist for the top people to live the high life more than to provide some kind of service to the people. Someone who knows about this stuff should translate this into something that makes sense numerically. That'd be cool.
Okay, BYE!
(this is the most incoherent blog ever)
