Message #5489

[uselesslegs]

You can't run a corporation like a state and you can't run a state like a corporation.  There has to be a middle ground, especially where individuals are concerned.  Corps, by their very nature, do what they do for the bottom line.  People, assets, and decisions are all made, cut, hired, sold, and acquired based on profitability.  Rarely will you find a Corp that side steps some profitability for the concerns and welfare of it's employees.  They'll do what they're required to do by law and sometimes they're smart enough to understand that a happy worker, is a profitable worker...but in this day and age...that's an exception, not a rule.

Scott's number one priority as a CEO is to trim the fat, which in this case are the people he represents as Gov.  A Govs. number one priority is to the well being of the people of the state AND to the states economy.  Not an easy task, but you can't go all exclusively robocop crazy in one direction and ignore the other.  You can't fire your residents, as much as you may want to, you just can't.  Shore things up, tidy up loose ends or unnecessary budget hogs, but you ALWAYS have to be mindful of the people you represent in the process.  Does this or that harm a large portion of people and if so, how does it harm them?  Does it benefit many or a few...and if it benefits few...will doing so actually benefit more later in a positive manner (economically or otherwise) or does it just continue to benefit the few.

Scott is in straight up CEO mode, get ready for fun times.