Tag: tyranny
The U.S. Military and Police are Socialist Institutions
Contrary to popular belief, the military, law enforcement agencies and fire departments of the United States of America are among the world's most socialist...
Cynical Times editor trolls Clinton stronghold
Victor Epstein was cruising his Facebook timeline alone Thursday afternoon, buck naked in the privacy of his living room, when the break in the social...
Syrian Political Machine Breaking Down
There used to be a rule of thumb that any successful family business would fail by the third generation as the hardworking founder was...
Empowered Consumers Let Their Hands Go
Beleagured consumers have taken a page from the boxing world in recent weeks by "letting their hands go" in their battle with predatory corporations like Netflix and Bank of America.
Boxing trainers use the phrase when they want a pugilist to stop being cautious and pound away at an antagonist with unbridled fury. The effect in the business world has been to turn the clock back on customer relations to a time when more businesses had a moral compass and worried about how they were viewed by those who purchase their products and services.
Consumers have used their wallets to rout both Netflix and Bank of America (BofA) in the past month in a collective
show of force that suggests a new activism has replaced their former apathy, which long allowed business leaders to treat them with disdain. The result may be a sea change in the way business has been conducted in America the past 30 years.
Instead of purchasing political and media influence to facilitate the exploitation of their own customers, particularly in industries like banking and cable TV, corporations now must rediscover how to treat them fairly again.
Boxing trainers use the phrase when they want a pugilist to stop being cautious and pound away at an antagonist with unbridled fury. The effect in the business world has been to turn the clock back on customer relations to a time when more businesses had a moral compass and worried about how they were viewed by those who purchase their products and services.
Consumers have used their wallets to rout both Netflix and Bank of America (BofA) in the past month in a collective
show of force that suggests a new activism has replaced their former apathy, which long allowed business leaders to treat them with disdain. The result may be a sea change in the way business has been conducted in America the past 30 years.Instead of purchasing political and media influence to facilitate the exploitation of their own customers, particularly in industries like banking and cable TV, corporations now must rediscover how to treat them fairly again.
