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[sauvin]

Well, so, anyway, I've bought myself a new laptop at Best Buy. I couldn't really afford it, since it cost a month's pay, and all I have in the bank right now is about three months' pay, but I figure maybe I should treat myself to something nice once in a while, if I can afford it at all. The alternative is to succumb to the state of mind that

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[batshua]

You bought a laptop! You wrote a long LJ post! I read it! Joy! You make me happy.

[pipthewhore]

I watched that SVU episode and drew the same conclusions :-p

Also sometimes it is nice to buy things you can't really afford just to make yourself feel better.

I can kind of understand your business thing. I've noticed that more and more of society is run on the quest for profit. It's seeped into social things as well. Everyone expects something in return, and you can't just be nice, because it means something else. Everyone's so busy thinking about profit and benefit, that they can't quite understand that sometimes people do nice things that are nice for no reason except to do things that are nice...or in your case, to do it right.

[sauvin]

It's more than just the profit motive, though. You can't tell me that the lower echelons of the Upstairs Offices are driven purely by the profit motive because most of them aren't going to realise much gain in income as a result of their actions. Some of what I see going on has to do with the example I saw in the Synthetic Materials Group: way too many chiefs and not nearly enough Indians; business has gotten to be less about manufacturing and more about Running a Business. Most of what I saw at the SMG, and at other places to a far less severe degree, is the (what would appear to me to be) fact that the kinds of people who aggregate to the higher ranks tend to be control freaks - people who love having power simply for the sake of having power. Another Rant is kicking around in the basement of my (hee hee) mind on this very subject. Watch this space for further developments.

[carcass854]

but the lower echelons are trying to become the uppers. The goal is to advance to the top, and procure the most wealth.

also, I dated one of those power for thesake of power people.

[sauvin]

I do not myself care much about money, so long as I have enough. HOW much is enough, of course, is a relative thing, but before I lost my job three years ago, I had more than enough, and now that I'm working in a factory, I don't have nearly enough.

There are people in this world who do not care so much about money, and they're not all like me, content just to lounge in their own back yards. The "power purely for the sake of power" thing would probably describe a lot of the people I've been at loggerheads with. While it's true that huge money can bring huge power, it's also true that life is full of petty tyrants who seem to love nothing more than simply to make other people miserable, or control freaks who care about nothing but that the world conform to their concept of order. I'm confident we could together put together quite a list of the different types of people belonging to this general order, aren't you?