global economy and synergy

when i read about the global economy and the wage difference between CEO's and other managers and employees... when i read that the wages difference is really due to the global economy, i know this is full of shit. many of the successful global players, south korea, japan, and china, india do not have such dramatic differences in wages. the best corporations in east asia work synergistically... all the parts work together at almost maximal level... someone who knows a great deal about all aspects of making a car or a cellphone is supervising all aspects and making sure it is being done according to an efficient timeline, perfecting each process or someone who knows very little but is able to drive people to do their best through all means is driving the process.

when i read michael porter and stephen covey, i almost completely understood most of the business decisions that were being made by the top ceos of the US and they are predictable, boring, safe, and marginally profitable. i did not really see why CEO's were in such a short supply and why they were so often recycled, why there is no consequence if they perform badly. they just get another job at another corporation.

i have a great deal of respect for ceo's of amazon, google, microsoft and other places. the amount of free information on the internet, free services, and cheap goods has really helped me survive as a business.

but then, why these high salaries for superstars? even with sports, the great american teams which attract the best players in the world win only by a few points against the top other teams.

globalization actually threatens the idea of the superstar being the prime mover of the action.

what is really threatened is the idea of competition to see who is the best and the deification of the individual which leads to thousands or millions of black and white kids imitating lebron james... most of them becoming nothing and maybe 1 becoming the next lebron james. and almost none of these kids are willing to go through the "agon," the struggle of the contest or the competition. they just want the attention and fame. they want to be at the center.

creative destruction is an idea that american businessmen and stockbrokers adopted from artists like picasso. this is hard to take. the businessman or the stockbroker completely destroys himself and others as a personality and body in order to accelerate the creative process. marlon brando, jackson pollock, and others...

this is the artist as shaman.

stockbrokers, creative artists, and ambitious businessmen buy into this idea. they may do some immortal and good things but their body becomes fried. they becomes things. their emotions have been absorbed by the stoned trauma. some artists like basquiat, pollock, and others... they sounds like real fucking morons. it think it was freud who said that artists were somewhat infantile. but what happens to these people. no matter how brilliant they may have been, they become retarded emotionally or otherwise and then the daemon takes over and overtakes their life. they are possessed and the possession will not end til the creative process is over. drugs,sex, and whatever else is needed to speed up the creative process motivates them.

this is another competitive advantage the US has but what is it doing to people? what is it making human beings into? and this made me drink too.