Business

It's been a while since I've blogged, because of a short term overload of things to do, putting in full time at a client's, and also taking a business class at the CC. Yes, business. It was a little bit of a shock to my anarcho-socialist mind to learn that most of the ideas we hold aren't different from the ideas taught in biz school... it's the "masses" who are uninformed about it... and it's only the anarcho-socialistic types who think something is wrong with the way things are. The biz class attitude is to just get yourself on top of the pyramid, and hope to avoid a revolution. I suspect biz school is also a leading vehicle for teaching the finer points of shady business practices and political corruption, but I can't be sure of this.

What I was hoping for were lessons on accounting and standard business practices, negotiation, and laws. Being an intro class, though, none of that was being taught. So, I'll have to just take some specific classes for those things. What was taught: money, organization, government, marketing. It's just basic capitalism, and as enlightening as sitting through an intro to Marx, Weber, or Gramsci. The book was okay, but was biased in favor of business, and also had some factual errors. The factual errors kind of killed it for me.