Is the Molecular Business Practical?
If you are not familiar with the Molecular Business you can read about it here:
A reader comments: The greatest problem with a corporation is their myopic interest in profit only. So they seem perfectly willing to make sweetheart deals with government giving them special privileges of all kinds such as tax breaks, pollution allowances, and much more. Another difficulty is lack of liability. No owners [shareholders] ever incur any liability if the corporation poisons a bunch of folks or destroys an entire river ecosystem or some other evil thing. How would a molecular business do any better?
JJ The design of the Molecular Business is to first create a more efficient business model that will make a good profit. The second is to put all employees into a more equal relationship and pay. This is done through free will and not force, as today’s liberals so desire. Because the business is employee owned, they will be more flexible. If they all have to take a pay cut to survive, they can take this action or give themselves a raise if there is more profit.
As far as insuring virtuous actions by the corporation there is never any guarantee of that, but the Molecular Business should be more constructive and less destructive than most because:
[1] All employees have a voice and if the leaders get too destructive, they will be voted out and replaced.
[2] Because the company is employee owned there will be a greater sense of responsibility to make good decisions.
[3] As the spiritual molecules grow leaders in the Molecular Businesses will draw from them. These people will have service to humanity as their objective.
Reader: What is the “bottom line” for the molecular business? Profit?
JJ: Profit is the prime objective of any business. If a business cannot make a profit, then it cannot even exist.
Because all employees will be a part of the business I do not expect them to go for a profit at any price but to make a profit doing constructive work.
Reader: Profit-only gives today’s corporations that vacant stare that everyone hates so much.
JJ Modern corporations are not perfect but the hatred you speak of is mostly based in illusion. Many people of today are like programmed robots that do not think for themselves. They need to be educated.
I do not recall any private corporation ever taking anything from me that I didn’t want to give them once in my entire life yet government does this every day
Reader: If a customer slips and falls at the porch of the retail building, does the molecular business take liability?
JJ Of course – a Molecular Business would have to have liability insurance just like any other company.
Reader: Or do they employ the tricks of traditional corporations to avoid responsibility?
JJ: Such things are usually handled by the insurance company rather than the business. And the gouging works both ways. Consumers will often fake injuries and pretend they are worse than they are to get an undeserved settlement.
Reader: That one incident could potentially wipe them out, especially when they are small before much growth.
JJ: That’s why you have insurance.
Reader: If the workers are also owners, then they will end up personally liable for every problem when they go to court? Are the workers not real owners but merely stock holders?
JJ: They are owners through the holding of stock. That does not make them personally liable any more than employees in other corporations.
The Molecular Business was always designed to be like a regular corporation as far as stock is concerned except part of the pay to employees will be in stock. If someone retires and wants to hold on to their stock that is good for the company because it gives them more cash to work with.
Reader: Aren’t you concerned that big business will use underhanded methods to destroy a molecular business if it proves profitable?
JJ: A molecular business would move forward just like the smaller businesses do today. You create a better product and have better service. I’ve been a small business owner most of my life and there are many advantages to being small as well as big. Some small business get destroyed through various practices of large companies but the good ones survive. Steve Jobs started Apple in his garage and no one stopped him. Bill Gates started Microsoft on a shoestring and IBM helped him get started by selling him DOS at a bargain price.
I’m not worried about big business. Government always concerns me though.
Time Travel
I heard this guy on Coast to Coast and his story is pretty amazing. He posts a picture of him at the Gettysburg address. He was only ten years old at the time he says the government sent him back. You can see it here:
This guy either has a heck of an imagination or a great story. The chances that we mastered time travel in the 60s is pretty slim, even if it were possible but it’s a fun story to follow.
I’ve also enjoyed following John Titor. He was close enough on some predictions to be eerie, but did miss on others.
Organic Foods
A reader commented on Penn and Teller’s show which attempted to illustrate that organic foods are no better for you than the regular produce. Here are several points:
[1] They say regular produce tastes as good as organic. There is not a lot of difference in taste in organic or regular apples or bananas no matter how they are grown. These were the worst fruits to use for the test and probably why Penn & Teller used them. Strawberries or watermelons would have provided a lot better taste test as these have a huge difference in taste as the quality goes up. If these are raised in quality live soil with lots of minerals the taste will be very different than the highly commercialized fruit.
[2] They say non organic is just as nutritious as organic. Most of the studies have focused on the vitamin content, but health-conscious people buy organic for the extra minerals more than the vitamins. A Lot of commercial organic farms do not put many minerals back in the soil and have less mineral nutrition than the non-organic.
[3] How fresh the fruit is also makes a huge difference in taste. I notice that a lot of organic food for sale looks quite old and thus would have low nutritional value and not much taste.
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June 17, 2011
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“I do not recall any private corporation ever taking anything from me that I didn’t want to give them once in my entire life yet government does this every day.”
“I’m not worried about big business. Government always concerns me though.”
These are such stupid comments. Do you not know what a subsidy is, JJ? Do you not know what a corporate lobbyist is? Are you unaware of the relationship between business and government?