[geeks] observations and rants.

[Mike Meredith]

On Sunday 17 February 2002 13:30, you wrote:
> Dave McGuire wrote:
> >   We work hard, create things, push the state of the art, develop
> > technology...these suits rape companies, vote themselves raises,
> > cheat us out of the stuff we build, and ensure that we can never
> > challenge them...and THEY'RE the ones percieved to be "respectable"
> > by society?
> >
> >   How can this be?
>
> Because over the years we (the general American public) have GIVEN
> them the power. Suits make the laws and interpret them, and "defend"

Don't know about the US, but here the people with 
political/business/whatever power have always been the "respectable" 
ones, line their own pockets, and don't really *do* anything.

"They leave us pride in our work, so we don't paint the walls with 
their blood".

About this time last year, I returned to work after being off sick for 
3 months to discover my boss was now off sick. The team I work in was 
left without management for nearly 6 months ... functioned perfectly 
well without it, and we no longer had to spend an hour a week 
accounting for our time.

> us when we have to face those laws. Yes, I'm equating business suits
> with law suits, because they're all so interconnected it's impossible

Suits are suits whatever their colour.

> to tell them apart from here. The business guys work with the legal
> teams to create systems that let them do what they want. And that's
> the way it is.

And will probably stay that way ... especially with the bad reputation 
of Communism/Anarchism/Socialism (which are in some ways about getting 
rid of PHB's).