This reminds me of the Business Planning class I took years ago. The emphasis was on how to make our businesses bigger, hire employees, grow, sell, and make tons of money. At the age of 54, I was looking more towards retirement than making my business bigger. I kept asking, what's wrong with wanting to keep my little business small, with just me as the only employee? Even though I have generally taken a leadership role in jobs I've had, including starting my own business, that attitude really bothered me. The class assumed that everyone wanted the same things out of life.
It also reminds me of the movie Happy, in which they show that material things don't make people happy. Being a CEO has likely not ever made anyone truly happy.
Yes — it's that emphasis on growth, which capitalism supports, that's gotten us into the fix we're in today. There are limits to growth. Lots of people are happy with small businesses and don't feel the need for growth.
This reminds me of the Business Planning class I took years ago. The emphasis was on how to make our businesses bigger, hire employees, grow, sell, and make tons of money. At the age of 54, I was looking more towards retirement than making my business bigger. I kept asking, what's wrong with wanting to keep my little business small, with just me as the only employee? Even though I have generally taken a leadership role in jobs I've had, including starting my own business, that attitude really bothered me. The class assumed that everyone wanted the same things out of life.
It also reminds me of the movie Happy, in which they show that material things don't make people happy. Being a CEO has likely not ever made anyone truly happy.
Yes — it's that emphasis on growth, which capitalism supports, that's gotten us into the fix we're in today. There are limits to growth. Lots of people are happy with small businesses and don't feel the need for growth.