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Edited on Fri Apr-10-09 08:32 PM by Jaundice James
All my life, I’ve always tried to learn a just a little bit about each of the people I met. In the past (and by this I mean a year ago or longer), I’ve noticed an even mix of people who were content doing what they’re doing, and those who considered themselves to be somewhere along an upward curve...
Over the last seven months or so, since I moved to Washington and since the economy tanked, my encounters with people have been much different. Now, almost always, when I ask people about themselves, what they do, and what they hope to do, they answer with stories of resignation. Not resigning from their jobs, but resigning from their hopes and aspirations...
In all of this, there is one thing steadily rising that is more powerful than the oppression caused by meaningless McJobs. The thing I speak of is values. Real values - the values that were lost when success and greed and consumerism ruled the day. This experience is teaching us something, and the thing we’re being taught will outlast the oppressive nature of whatever it was we did “just to get by”.http://www.examiner.com/x-1470-DC-Corporate-Ethics-Examiner~y2009m4d10-How-this-recession-made-us-whole
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