A Matter Of Carrot And Stick

Social class is a matter of carrot and stick.

Different carrots and different sticks
for the different social classes,
but familiar divisions between them.

We can still ask what we might be
but for these divisions?
And what shared life remains
between reward and punishment? 

Strong Leadership

is a giddy hierarchy which is designed to induce
weakness and passivity in those that live under it,
who may well want to be part of a team
that rewards their strengths and transforms
their weaknesses. But they can't be
when when the leadership/hierarchy
defines what the word 'team' means,
the better to hide behind false labels.
For as much as the rewards for leaders
are built on covertly draining those beneath them
of initiative and self-hood, then corporate leadership
is vampirism in disguise. Which further justifies
the common understanding that the only economy
worth having is one that is set to perpetual growth
-new blood has to taste fresh and be rich
for the craving for it to be temporarily sated.