Profits Versus Service

Getting Beyond This Huge Conflict of Interest

Profits At the Expense of Everything Else:

The major problem with unbridled capitalism always has been and still is that making a profit comes before everything else.  Profit comes before the customers; it comes before employee health and well-being; and it comes before care for the environment.  coi**1   

As a result, any corporation that sells a product or service to a customer for profit has a major conflict of interest.   This is particularly true for the public service corporations, such as banking, insurance, pharmaceuticals, health care, the energy providers.   Instead of service, what matters for these corporations  is showing a profit on The next quarterly report.   

There Is Another Way! 

The alternative is simple to implement, and yet it will produce profound, peaceful transformations.  It's called The New Corporate World Win-Win Business Structure. This Program is described in detail on our New Corporate World Foundation's website.**ncw1    It includes these seven benefits: 

     Make  significant reductions of the scourge on society called debt  ^**mm1    

It's the future of the corporate world.  Why?  Because it's a replacement structure that has a greater value than that which it is replacing.  

Making the Shift 

Shifting to  The New Corporate World Foundation's Win-Win Business Structure, is parallel in scope to the way  cars replaced the horse and buggy and the way computers replaced typewriters.   When people see the increased value in the new business  structure, they will simply leave the old ways and move to the new.   The changes will be equally as remarkable, and it will dramatically  change the world.   

It will begin to be seriously examined and adopted by corporations as soon as just one corporation realizes the huge advantages it offers and actually makes the simple changes required.   Once a single corporation in any industry adopts this  Win-Win Business Structure, its competitors will have two options:  follow suite and make the same basic change or lose a significant percentage of their customers.    Even the moneyed elite have nothing to fear from this transition and everything to gain. coi**2

But, don't believe any of this.  
Examine the evidence and the alternatives:    

An Example of Cooperation 

During the time period of 14-17 November, 2008, a fire storm engulfed thousands of acres of southern Californian and destroyed hundreds of homes.   I  watched the television reports with bags packed and pet carriers ready to evacuate if necessary as the smoke engulfed my neighborhood and a rain of ash covered everything with a dull speckled, gray and black surface giving the world outside my window and eerie, surreal  ghost-like appearance.    

During those four crisis days and in the days following, the level of cooperation,  the masterful coordination, and the skillful execution countless in-the-moment actions on the part of the  dozens of government agencies, numerous relief organization, hundreds of fire control units, and tens of thousands of individuals was something unseen in the United States since the end of the Second World War.   

Nobody held back because they weren't going to make a profit.  Nobody was playing any false roles.    Nobody withheld for lack of personal gain.   The level of cooperation was phenominal.  Hundreds of professionals and dozens of private individuals  risked their lives is service of the collective well being of all of us.   Everybody involved had a common goal, a common objective, and each did his or her part with the overall good of everybody in mind.   There were even some who, while their own homes were burning, were working feverishly to save their neighbor's home.   

What would happen if we had that kind of commitment focused on solving our financial crisis?   For example, with a simple commitment to stop home foreclosures for designated time period, the banks could end the home foreclosure crisis in a matter of a few days.   Renegotiating the specifics of of the actual loans could take a few months, but ending the crisis could be done immediately.    This would alow time for  overall financial system readjusts itself and time for each individual loan to be re-analyzed.   

Considering the fact that the banks are charging customers interest on non-existent, make-believe money, this does seem like a reasonable compromise.   Readers are directed to two pages on TLC-Life-Center's  Economic Sanity Website: 

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Notes and References 

Unbridled Capitalism:   

When one examines the history of unbridled capitalism and asks the question:

"What has been sacrificed in the name of Profits?"  
The answer is "Everything!"    including the environment and 
the lives an health of both customers and employees.

Any corporation that sells a product or service to a customer for profit has a conflict of interest.   What is most important?  What is always matters?   What takes first priority in any corporation big enough to have publicly traded stock?

The customer?   
The employees, including lower level management?   
The environment?    
or 
Making a profit?   

Profits are most important!  profits always matters!   Profits take first priority! "The next quarterly report"   is "GOD" in the big-dollar corporate world.   If you don't believe us or if you think that we're exaggerating, we challenge you to find a major corporation that defies or ignores the next quarterly report.   The pursuit of profit for the investors is the only thing that matters.