This is a very sad, sad article, showing the seedy underbelly of the largest power company in Japan: TEPCO.
I am embarrassed to even show this to the world, but you need to see, that the big, money-hungry companies in Japan are not so different from their counterparts around the world.
Rather than giving the Tepco employees risking their lives to solve the Fukushima Nuclear Radiation problem a hero's welcome, the company treats them like... well, like Japanese dogs.
"Nuclear plant workers at risk of depression, death from overwork: doctor"
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/nuclear-plant-workers-at-risk-of-depression-death-from-overwork-doctor
Corporations will end up running the world if the people don't wake up and start using their purchasing power to throw a monkey wrench into the cogs that turn the profits. Corporations are evil.
ReplyDeleteSheila - If only we could choose our energy provider I would be soooo outta there! Even if it was more expensive.
ReplyDeleteThe government is considering raising the sales tax, raising income tax and raising the cost of energy to cover the huge cleanup cost that TEPCO can't cover on their own. So we will be paying TEPCO MORE to help them clean up. Paying more taxes I can accept as a member of this country because the gov has to cover what TEPCO can't. That's a cost of belonging to society. But paying the company that caused the mess due to their bottomline greed is just all wrong!
Just throwing in a thought here but according to what I'm seeing in America, corporations run our government. So all the laws and amendments that are passed focus on protecting the corporations who in turn contribute to whichever political person will fight hardest for them and so the snowball grows. A new amendment was just passed that allows corporations to contribute to campaigns now so now they are not even hiding it. So whether we support Corporate interests or not...our tax dollars are! I don't know it this is how Japan is run now or not...I highly suspect it is. There even looms on the horizon new agendas that will place "corporate" overseers in municipalities and towns and basically these "lords" can oust a town council if they deem they are not operating for the benefit of the town (in the "lords" opinion) Don't know how long this will take but the parasites are worming their way into our lives an inch at a time. America has not been the United States of America for a long time it has been a business run by big corporations! It's just now they are not hiding in the back rooms.
ReplyDeleteThis is why monopolies were outlawed in the United States back in the early 1900's.
ReplyDeleteIt's the same pattern every time. Entitlement followed by outright abuse.
Sadly, it seems our own government here has forgotten these lessons and why the precautions were so critical to the welfare and health of the nation.
I'm sorry this is happening over there Cam. Hope the people there kick the government square in the groin to wake them up.
Respectfully,
100% agreement on all fronts.
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry that a country with such spirit and heart is dealing with a corporation that seems so soulless.
And I'm hoping that this corporation ISN'T getting it's lessons from American corporations. :o( While I love many things about the flow of culture and information and friendship between Japan and America, some things I wish we could just keep to ourselves (and figure out how to fix!), like corporate greed.
Hopefully TEPCO learns a lesson from all this. :o(
Jaime - Japan seems to embrace most things that come out of America; and unfortunately that means both the good, and the bad.
ReplyDeleteTragically this is a problem that predates American corporations. The behavior (and it's consequences) go pretty far back.
ReplyDeleteSticking to recent American history, the East Dutch Trading Company is a perfect example. Completely out of control long before the American Revolution. Never mind an even earlier fool who thought it would be ok to rob a caravan from Ghengis Khan. What was the name of that Empire that was wiped from history?
In the US, things finally reached a boiling point with the Robber Barons of the late 19th century, which led to a great deal of bloody conflict in the early part of the 20th century. (Typically down played in our history books)
The anti-trust laws and regulations that came about in the US, did not come quietly. It was a direct response to some very violent and long drawn out conflicts between companies, their employees and local communities.
Unfortunately, very few people alive today in the US remember, much less even know about those times.
So it's easy not to notice when a corporation is starting to cross the line, and even easier not get after our legislators for not standing up and saying something. After all, even though a corporation's health ultimately depends on healthy consumers, it's the corporations who typically fund re-election campaigns.
The story gets worse from there.
It will be an interesting lesson for the future to see how all of this plays out.
Deming was a good thing to adopt. Especially when others could not see the value of what he was saying.
Saving pennies only to loose hundred dollar bills,... that's a hard lesson concerning the value of basic common sense many could easily avoid, but don't.
I hope things go far better in Japan, than they did here. And that they don't follow the same example.
The best of luck and outcomes to everyone.
Respectfully,
that's why unions jf
ReplyDeletebalancing one set of greedy bastards against another so the rest of us have peace.
do you think the workers would enjoy some maple syrup cam??
ReplyDeletei can forward some of ours in short order
(Laughing!!!!!!) Very true!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteRespectfully, (and grinning)
About the greedy bastards,....
ReplyDelete(Laughing!!!!!!) Very true!!!!!!!!!
Respectfully, (and grinning)
Hermit - Well they certainly need high caloriefoods with a quick energy conversion factor and maple syrup would fit the bill, methinks.
ReplyDeleteJoyn - Where the H-E-Texas Cattlegates do you come up with this stuff? Are you just really really good at using a search engine, or ARE you a search engine??? You depth and breadth of knowledge never ceases to amaze me. I mean the East India Company trying to hijack a Khan Corp. Logistics shipment?!?
Cam,
ReplyDeleteQuit pulling my leg like that!!! No search engines involved. Just common knowledge. (Well,... it should be common!!)
Everyone knows about those kind of things where I grew up. (Well,... not necessarily the nuke or tech stuff, but definitely the rest)
And East India and the Khan Corp thing were 2 different time periods!!! Though I have to say, I'm not sure who would have come out on top had those 2 met.
Ultimate sneakiness and thievery up against absolute ruthlessness?
Hmmm....
Have a great day and a safe weekend!!!!!!
Respectfully,
John - Wait until you read today's info on TEPCO! I can hardly wait for you to pull some amazing facts from your net-wired brain.
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