Ethics in American Business

© R. Mark Sink

Ethics in American Business - R. Mark Sink

Finding ways to confiscate funds from customers has never been anything that would help a small or large business succeed. I can certainly vouch for this truth having worked inside the homes of many if not all of my customers at one point or another while they were gone running errands or were at their jobs.

I remember the first client I ever had in which I worked in and around his home for nearly a year while he was gone nearly every single day of that time. Some of my customers would leave $100 dollar bills laying around the house. The ability to trust someone in this regard is worth much more than the money itself. I once had a client seemingly and purposefully leave $100 bills in my working path at their home, as though they were attempting to test me.

I've never really had the time or the desire for thievery with any of my clients, rather I was much more concerned that what they were paying for was the best possible product at the fairest price, and by doing this, they would have a reason to tell others about me, in which they did. That was literally how my business was built and no advertising was ever paid for, it was the wrong avenue.

Many so-called contractors who obtain licensees that force a system test find that the requirements have absolutely nothing to do with ethics, rather, a mirage of the system benefits. I remember first taking this test and finding that I was seemingly on an alien planet, as what I was being asked to learn had nothing to do with what I was providing to others. As a sole proprietor, I was seen as an outcast, someone who according to government thinking installed flooring, and something I rarely provided.

Homes are so poorly built in Florida, generally, woodworking and its artistic nature were mostly absent except for those who have specialized their services in those areas and have learned the in's and out's of product choice and feasibility. General contractors rarely have these skills and have long taken advantage of those who do as a methodology of confiscation. This confiscation of life is provided by the system who also have nothing to do with choice or feasibility. Although within this realm of deceit, building codes do offer preventative degradation for structural matters but this generally applies to the advocacy of developments that offer little in the way of community.

These system dysfunctions actually help to prevent the building of social relationships, and it is these relationships that have been the heart of small business and services that offer real value. In most cases, older communities remain the source for much of this type of thinking, while newer developed fenced communities offer little albeit their perceived wealth that is directed into a form of security that is assuming that neighborhood.

True security comes from the building of communities rather than fencing them in and reduces criminal activity without the illusion of securitization that has plagued natural living. In older communities these notions are already apparent and people who live in them are more likely to help each other out in times of need which is the basis of a strong economy of people working together instead of against each other in a dog eat dog world of illusive benefits.

Many of the developments around the Tampa Bay area are beginning to dry up and filled with vacant homes and these communities will likely continue to be bad investments as home prices continue to fall and investors keep losing money. Working in these types of developments has never been conducive to generating word of mouth advertising as in these types of communities people seldom associate with their neighbors as they do in older ones such as Hyde Park.

If you expect to offer genuine services and to have people talk about you with others, you'll need to focus on those communities that are not as developed over the last ten to twenty years as they have been. These over developments with bigger homes that people are tantalized to acquire for their tastes of living in America, have never really offered sensible living over the long-term as we can now testify to. They are often restrictive living and requiring those who purchase them to live within those requirements and to spend their money at specified corporate hegemonies.

This is never really what people wanted in the first place, but are enticed into believing that community living is not what it is intended to be, and one that actually has people living in it that know each other and care about their community as a whole and those who live in it. And of course, it is these older style communities that often hold their values when expensive and overpriced subdivisions have become barren of life.

The developers are clever and we can now also attest to the fact that security is more associated with the ways in which banking and market leverage have wrought criminal activity into the heart of American communities with fences surrounding them for the illusion of racial integrity as thief is the security.

We can now see that security is the last ditch effort to steal the heart out of American living and community as per the laws that are specifically directed away from serious crime and onto those who are mostly helpless.