The influx of millions

It is 11:00 PM and I sit in an office tower that is empty. It was, during this Monday, bustling with thousands of people, who are now probably sleeping in their beds, and will be waking up in a few hours to the hustle and bustle that is NYC. And I wonder how many of us that occupy this building during business hours, making millions of dollars for our employers, reap some of the benefits of those dollars? How many of us are living from paycheck to paycheck, and through our due diligence and moral character, work at our occupation with the express intent to do the job we have contractually signed on to do. And that contractual obligation is to make our bosses richer, through the tireless work that we do while we, who are further down the totem pole, can barely rise above the ensuing sea of daunting bills.

As I look at the roster of some of Fortune 500's companies in the lobby of the building in which I work, and feel the quietness of the lobby at night, I know come 8:00 AM, express buses and subways will discharge the mighty workers of NYC who are aware, just as I am, that the system is not quite fair to those who work diligently and honestly at life. There are the haves and the have nots, and certainly the have nots are immeasurable in comparison to the haves. We, the people, are the ones whose labor rewards the owners and power brokers of the companies we work for, and therein lies the inequity of the situation. The work that you put out is not often rewarded fairly, but often, rewards only those at the top of the totem pole, for they are the ones who broker the deals to establish and sustain the companies for which we work, and therefore feel entitled. Because of this feeling of entitlement they then establish a system that hires underlings to do the hard work of the company that brings in wealth, and then systematically distribute the wealth garnered primarily to those at the highest point of the hierarchy of the business while those at the bottom receive a pittance of the wealth that they have worked so hard to acquire for their bosses.

The system is brutal and very self-evident. There is truly no pretense as to who is benefiting and who is not. And we the people often have no way to combat what we know is an unfair situation. Is the answer unionizing, sick-outs, sabotage, etc. to get the point across to the-powers-that-be that the little man is a vital component, if not the most vital, than those who sit in the corner offices? Or do we fight the good fight subliminally by working honestly and diligently knowing that we are doing the right thing and hoping things will change somehow because of karma? Or perhaps do so knowing that the power structure never changes because the power is in the hands of those who have the deepest pockets, and surrender to the inevitable continuation of the little man being used and abused? The quandry that is big business is never ending in its brutality.