| The delay has nothing
to do with technical problems. Those have always existed in technological ventures. The
difference is that they were surmounted. Today they become excuses for failures and
postponements. |
| Lacking in personal
hygiene, having little pride in how we are dressed, being rude in our interactions with
coworkers and customers, we have decayed into a work ethic based upon a nihilistic
disregard for how we -- or if we -- accomplish. Even worse, we have rotted down to the
point of having little concern for excelling in our work. Baseball players just pop
steroids -- or some stuff they claim to be unaware of -- and suddenly they are breaking
strength-related hitting records that have stood since truly great players established
them decades before. |
| Microsoft, General
Motors, too many companies have become known more for their product failures and faults
than for innovation and high productivity. |
| We must untie the
knots imposed by government hiring and firing regulations. We must eliminate the
emotionalized, superfluous, phony politeness manifested by everyone ordering everyone else
to "Have a great day" while they have little regard for the caliber of their
work. We must dispel the "you can't fire me anyway" attitude developed since
1970. If these misconceptions are allowed to stand, the now perverted and weakened US work
ethic, misapplied culture of freedom, and our loss of personal responsibility will ensure
that the US is unable to compete in the evolving global economy. |
| We may even lose our
ubiquitous, juvenile attitudes and not be prosperous enough to waste so much time watching
and playing sports and computer games. We may all have to go work for Toyota, Seimens, and
the Chinese. And then we can form a labor union of Americans.... |
| Laws of economics
will destroy the US just as the laws of physics destroyed the Columbia shuttle. |
