Corporate America

So, corporate America stands at the platform of the world as the only super power left, the economic powerhouse that’s way above all other nations in the world. Self-styled and proud protector of the capitalist free world.

Sadly, it is within their own backyard that they have failed so miserably.

“I did not know that there were so many homeless and destitute people on America’s urban streets”, someone once told me after watching a charity aid programme.

Yes, while the lean and mean methods of corporate America has indeed propelled it as the leader in world economics and dominance, it has failed desperately in the field of its own social security and healthcare because these are not considered important as they hint of a socialist order for things… something that goes contrary to the methodologies of pure capitalism to which it is the de facto protector.

Its soup kitchens are bursting at the seams and food aid shelves fast becoming bare. Yes, true, that are a number of charity and aid organisations that do their utmost best in helping the destitute and homeless, but I remember the words of a politician who said that the countless number of aid porganisations would not be able to match what a government can do on a collective manner, simply because the measurement of resources differ enormously and that the latter is able to move a lot more at the fastest time.

So, yes, while America may be founded on the great principles of its founders, it has nonetheless, sold itself out for wealth. It has lost its soul and no matter what amount of prosperity, it will not be able to regain its past nobility because it has failed to realise that the one thing that’s held in the highest esteem (and even higher at many times than God!), money, is no substitute for one’s soul.

In fact, it has become its worst enemy. It has become the very thing it abhored and preached against. It has, in the Biblical words done exactly what it shouldn’t have : “For what does it profit a man if he gained the whole word but loses his soul? (Mark 8:36)

"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms, greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind." – words of Gordon Gecko in Wall Street.

Really? Try the words of Mohandas K. Gandhi instead:

"There is enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed."

So corporate America, perhaps it time to be a little kinder, a little more human… after all, its your own backyard that’s suffering the most. Time to love yourself despite the wealth.