Where’s Bucky now?
January 28, 2009
R. Buckminster Fuller tried decades ago to teach us that bigger is not always stronger. True, his application was in buildings, but it applies to businesses as well.
I firmly agree with Professor Don Holley of Boise State University who was quoted in the Statesman yesterday regarding the mega-mergers in our banking industry: “If they are too big to fail, they are too big to have.”
Agreed!
Then in another small article tucked away in the Statesman we read:
“Pfizer to buy Wyeth for $68B; 20,000 jobs to be lost”
We continue our path of allowing bigger companies and simultaneously eliminating jobs. This should have been capturing our attention for the past 20 years and especially today, doesn’t it hurt your eyes (and heart) to read “20,000 jobs to be lost”?
