BoredPanda staff
It’s easy to talk about honest business when you’ve never been a
businessperson yourself or have never been exposed to all of the
nuances of managing one. It surely is possible to develop a
business that would be capable of generating millions of dollars
(or more) in a given time span, or one that would be completely
ethical from an employee’s perspective. However, this result is
more of a trade-off rather than a fully compatible coexistence
between the two.
Theresa Searcaigh, an Irish-American author of literary fantasy
genre novels, posted a tweet asking the internet why billionaires
like Jeff Bezos don’t use their wealth to start fixing things like
helping homeless veterans and hungry children. According to her,
“he could be Batman,” but it’s all “wasted.”
A woman asked why people like Jeff Bezos don’t impulsively
start fixing things with their wealth
Image credits: Theresa
Searcaigh (deleted)
A Tumblr user by the nickname of olivesawl posted a
response to this, explaining how people who do business with a
mindset of using their profits to further humanity don’t really
become people like Bezos.
He continued telling a story about his dad, a businessman of 35
years, who had a business that was profitable, but it did not
really expand. And the underlying reason was that it is nearly
impossible to do business this way without climbing on someone’s
back. He elaborates on this in the pictures below.
A Tumblr user ventured to give a little bit of perspective
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Image credits: olivesawl
Olivesawl told a story of how his dad saw and did business, not
trying to take advantage of the people involved in it. He never
waited to be a good human being when it came to business, always
choosing his employees’ health over profits and going to such
lengths as to dock his own salary in order to make sure his
employees’ needs and securities were met. And he was proud of
it.
Another user, earlgreytea86, added to this by also
talking about his own father, and how this same decision led their
family to living a good and successful life and how they don’t need
to be billionaires to do good in life through their business.
Another Tumblrer joined in, expanding upon olivesawl’s
story
While for some this was a mind-blowing reality check, many
online were already aware of this, sharing their own stories and
thoughts about business. The reblog was a success on Tumblr,
garnering over 63,000 notes, but it also found its way to Imgur
recently, where it gathered over 188,000 views in under a day.
What are your thoughts on this? Got any social business stories
to share? Let us know in the comments section below!
Here’s what the internet had to say about this
