16 March

Going back to the idea of ‘business’, and how I don’t think it’s even a thing. There are just customers. You can easily prove this. Can a business exist without customers? No. Can customers exist without a business? Yes. Only one is real. The only reason we think a ‘business’ exists is because customers with money keep it going. Management and boards of businesses don’t drive a business. Customers drive businesses. And workers do the work. The most management and a Board can do is suggest things to customers and workers, which if they accept, will make the ‘business’ continue. The oldest trick in the human playbook is to take this basic fact, that workers do the work, and are also the people the work is for, and pretend ‘leaders’ are the ones actually doing all of that. Leaders are vital, but they don’t do the work, nor are they the source of wealth. That’s always the people. Ask any CEO if their business will succeed in a ‘market’ full of cashed-up customers, or cashed-up CEOs. The extension of these basic facts is, a society is healthy and works, when the workers - the people - have wealth. That means customers have money to spend. You can see how our societies now do the opposite, and vastly overpay leaders, and suppress money to workers. The only thing not going up in our society right now is wages.