The last cent.

Although currently attending a business school, I´m quite certain I don´t have what it takes to get ahead in the world of business today. I simply lack the insatiable thirst for profit that I find the main driving motivation of the businessmen I find around me. The thirst to grab up to the last cent from the supplier who´s been serving you well for many years, the total lack of moral or ethical considerations, the capacity to justify anything short of murder in the pursuit of the last cent, ....it simply makes me sick to my stomach.

In small business is often the owner, struggling to survive in a "world of sharks",.....that justifies everything. In large business, is never the individual but the almighty impersonal "organization".... that imposes such behaviour in them: "I understand, you know,....but there´s nothing I can do man....this orders come from above, you know,....they up there don´t understand like we do, buy hey,.....orders are orders".

I understand and appreciate the people with the drive to succeed, with the thirst for better things, with the willingness to work hard and make sacrifices to get ahead in life, but I detest those who will kill for a promotion, who would sell their mother for a 7% increase in ...whatever measure of success is used in your job...

Sometimes enough is Really enough, and more will not make you better but much worse. The constant obsesive struggle to find whatever always cheaper, cheaper, faster, faster, better, better....it is just pathetic and it is driving us all mad and it is ruining our environment. But that´s another story, and an even sadder one.