| Message: | | ...imply honestly and labor. The image I get is of somebody applying his own sweat toward some act of creation.
But the fact is that in the past, some people got rich by extracting hard labor from others, supplying dangerous working conditions, and paying trivial wages. For most workers to just quit was not an option- they had families to feed, and any other employer would be just as bad. Not having families was not an option- otherwise there would be nobody to care for them when- and if- they got old.
Are these workers society's "losers" in the sense you mean? Because these are the people that minimum wages and workplace safety laws are meant to protect. Are their industrialist bosses "successful and hard working" in the sense you mean? Because these are the people adversely affected by these laws.
Or are you talking about an organization that has outlived its mission, and has stopped being about that mission and become about perpetuating itself?
I've often thought that any organization founded about a specific cause should establish the conditions that would mandate the dissolution of that organization. A sort of "mission accomplished" clause in their charter. For practically achievable causes, this clause should include a drop dead date. If the organization doesn't accomplish its mission by then, it has failed.
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