I understand, Anil. I was fortunate to have lived through the entire space program. Of course, I don’t remember it, but the year I was born Chuck Yeager did the unthinkable. He flew the X-1 faster than the speed of sound. Through most of my grade school education, people were STILL stalking about this, through the 1950s. Then came Sputnik and Telstar and the race with the Russians, the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. Starting with Alan Shepard’s first sub-orbital flight, for several years, whenever there was a launch, school would stop. We would get an audio feed into the classroom if ours was not one of the rooms equipped with a TV. There were no video recording devices back then other than film. So, we couldn’t record it to watch when we got home. If the news didn’t cover it and we weren’t there to watch as it happened, we didn’t see it. And yeah, I know the emotion you speak of. I have worked on projects where we had the chemistry, where everybody was working together for a common goal, where our output was greater than the sum total of our individual efforts. It’s called synergy, and it is absolutely beautiful when it happens. We seem, as a society, to have lost the recipe. With few exceptions employers see employees as just another commodity from which you extract every ounce of value then throw away in the trash and get another warm body to exploit. Lost is the knowledge that appreciated employees virtually always go the extra mile for you and make you look good, make the company look good, make the customers elated for having doing business with you, which means they and their friends are very likely to return in droves, reducing the need for sales and expensive advertising. My father had such a business. After his third year in business, he never ran another ad anywhere. The business just kept growing on repeat business and referrals from elated customers to their neighbors, family and friends. It is possible to do it again, but it will take a major change in mindset. As long as people are greedy and don’t give a crap about others we’ll never get there. Income inequality and supreme control by the wealthiest of the wealthy is responsible for most of our problems.
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