Hello,
We all have been taught that using more words, being verbose, doesn't necessarily help you express your views clearly.
I am seeing more and more comments that take 10 minutes to read and more importantly understand .
Please be brief for the sake of clarity. Verbosity seems to go against clarity.
I don't want to impose actual size limit and instead count on your cooperation to be brief. Brevity = clarity.
Thank you.
Comments
This blog continues to present an itch that LLNS can’t easily scratch. A new LLNL non-profit and Bechtel free contractor will serve LLNL missions and LLNL employees for the better.
Fortunately or unfortunately, “wrongdoing”, “exposing injustice”, etc. this blogs stated mission, since LLNS took over management of LLNL in 2007, may at times necessitate the discussion of “legal matters” of other DOE/NNSA employees. How this may relate to a LLNS employee, not a LLNS manager (the blog was designed for employees) will vary.
Time to go forward by going back to a non-profit lab contractor. It won’t be a perfect solution or identical to the UC/LLNL days, but it is low hanging fruit for lab missions and for attracting and retaining lab employees.
The lab does have a mandate for this, of course, and they seem to be making efforts in that direction as you know although some might say it is "virtue signaling" the real problem is unhappiness with what is happening I think.
And yes, the ESG movement has been criticized as you know, on the right that it leads to a sort of "corporatism" in which corporations that as a guise to mistreat workers. For example as you know, the Bud Light incident now allows the company to extract concessions from union workers and close factories, and people even suspect the company could have somehow done it on purpose -- although I don't believe that, at all, we all know oil stocks and refineries have done well with high gas prices, and they donated to Democrats before the election.
That is, if incentives are still in place to put shareholders first, and something else is imposed as a requirement, it is still a subsidiary goal!
And yes, this is posted under a discussion of "brevity" and is a digression from the original topic, but I hope you post it anyways, as discussion has already drifted off a bit, of course. Perhaps, it could even be an example of how discussions drift and long replies are sometimes warranted or do have something to say.
Oh, man I get Scooby's point now.
Partly in the 80's to 90's things changed, partly due to foreign competition it seems, as the burden of fighting the cold war, caused the US to lag behind Japan and others in some economic respects.
This is something which most people who are old enough remember in great detail. Things like supply-side economics, mergers, stock options, and running corporations purely for the benefit of shareholders date from that era.
Now anything continued to its logical conclusion could have problems, and there is a desire for readjustment, while all the old incentives are still in place, so it does not happen. And at the same time, some feel we are entering some sort of "new cold war" which was part of the reason for the original economic reforms.
So, as was pointed out ESG or stakeholder capitalism could not work, or more pessimistically one might suspect that they are having the opposite of the intended effect, or even that the real intent of doing these things, is the opposite of the stated intent. Democrats on the other hand, who advocate these policies, naturally also have made various claims that Republicans have interfered, the same claim that is often made when Obamacare is criticized, and so on.
Again, this is a long comment that does address the discussion -- which has actually drifted as you might observe -- and might be relevant in addition as an example of whether or not to allow the topic to drift, or allow long comments. For example why or why not should this one be allowed, and will it be?
That is, the short comments are observant, but a deeper analysis of many topics is possible, even if leads nowhere, at least now you know why.