You have a blind spot that…

… that may be, but you have one in particular that I know something about

In any case, your blind spot is around ‘jobs’ and ‘top companies.’ You take them as a given, something you mention in passing, as the grass on the side of the road. ‘It is beautiful, ain’t it. It’s always been there. How can such a beautiful thing be part of the problem?.

The ‘jobs’ and ‘top companies’ are.

Because a big part of the problems that you point out and are so passionate about spring out of what we call Fiat businesses, the source of ‘jobs’ and ‘top companies.’

I love capitalism, what I think is working against us is ownership. But more about that later…

That example rearranged things in my head… actually, it lifted the fog in my head and I thank you for that.

As I was reading it, I realized what speaking out of love was all about.

You make the distinction that Summers was invited to speak as an economist, not as Harvard president, but I think you know that it’s very difficult to separate the two. I think you also know that it is even more difficult for Summers to not let his hypotheses as an Economist influence his decisions as Harvard president, even assuming that he is exceptionally good at doing so. If Hopkins was thinking along those line, the perceived collusion probably was what was making Hopkins’ head explode. She could have behaved differently. She should have voiced her concern and Summers and the rest of attendants might have learned something.

You don’t seem to see Fiat businesses; I think they are invisible to you. And you don’t realize what a big and fundamental part of the problem they are. You illustrate the problem so well, but you don’t see Fiat businesses as a source of it.

And you have not even asked me what a Fiat businesses is!

Yes. I want to make sure we are starting from the same place. Fiat means roughly ‘because I say so’. So, what you call Social Justice Fundamentalists I might call Fiat Social Justice. Good, you are smiling again.

In any case, we realized that the way businesses are organized is by Fiat. The owners control what goes on through their Fiat hierarchy. And the owners get that power over everything through their capital. The alternative RADICAL companies that we we are proposing, and actively making happen, are based on contributions. Wait… that was a jump…

Thank you. I will continue with my slow version of this story to make sure we don't off to different assumptions. For example, we always say Fiat business and Radical companies.

Bingo! The most dangerous thing about Fiat businesses is that they have been invisible. They also teach us that capital means unquestionable power. Capital gives you absolute power over everything that goes on inside a business. And that why we call businesses dictatorships.

I know a lot more now, thanks to you. Your book as provided me with actionable knowledge. Silence lets Fundamentalism gain strength. This is how dictatorships start, where they spring from. We keep silent to get along and in the blink of an eye, we have to keep silent to stay unhurt and alive.

And Fiat businesses are silence-training camps. And Fiat schools and homes, that learned from Fiat businesses. We pride ourselves on being good citizens of democracies by supporting dictatorships known as Fiat businesses.

… financially successful!…

Shit, indeed. I could not have put that better.