Post #574662 by Chip and Andy on Fri, Feb 4, 2011 10:35 AM

On 2011-02-04 09:30, woofmutt wrote:
I think the general dismissal of corporations isn't an attack on business or even people people making money, it's a reaction to companies which seem to have no interest in the communities where they do business other than how much money they can make there.

I applaud anyone, individual or corporation, if they can get ahead in the game of life.

I am Anti-Corporation. Not Anti-Business, Anti-Corporation.

The bigger a company gets, the closer it gets to becoming a Corporation. The more Corporate it becomes the more it needs to make money to maintain its growth and eventually reaches a point where making money is the only goal. I'll skip the obvious example of Walmart and go to something more appropriate to our group..... Anheuser-Busch.

Anheuser-Busch used to make really good beer. Then they switched from making beer to making an image, a brand, and the focus of the company went towards maintaining that brand instead of maintaining the process of making good beer. Now their beer is less tasty than I imagine horse-piss to be, in my opinion at least, and the company has reduced the entire process down to the lowest possible denominator. The beer is 'good enough', cheap enough to produce that it can sell cheaply thereby putting itself in a position to sell more which increases the profit by volume, and the quality of the beer is something measured by standards instead of something of a quality that people will seek out because it is good.

Actually, in the even more recent drinking past... Coors. It used to be a great regional beer that was good. So good in fact that people used to ask travelling friends and relatives to get some when they went through Coors Country. Coors today? More Horse-piss that is only slightly better than Budweiser.

So to tried and thread back towards the original question... the Hanalei became a victim of its own success. It was popular enough to attract people so it made enough money to become a target of a Corporation. Corporate takes over and you can see in the pictures what happened then. It became an asset to be profit maximized.

Sorry, I'm just ranting... I can't really get my rant back around to the topic at hand so I'll just toss the parting shot of Go-Go-Go Business Owners and Kill the Corporate Overlords.