Stanford Social Innovation Review

What bothers me is that WalMarts interest is wholly self serving (trend)

Firebell in the night. Wal-Mart is the American storefront for de facto slavery in China.

Weird how this word "benevolence" is now coming into play, worldwide. A new book has just come out in France that says what is needed in management now is more "bienveillance - benevolence". On the one hand the word "kindness", especially among people working in the same firm, seems too weak and on the other hand the greedy values-based talk ... Read Moregenerated by the present generation of management "visionaries" has died the death from hypocrisy--do as we preach, do not do as we do.

What sort of benevolence to the young have older generations shown over the past 40 years? Now that they are becoming older and more frightened of what the future holds, they wish to find in the young the "benevolence" they could not find in themselves, in the hope that they will continue to be protected in old age as they protected themselves all through their young and middle years? Why should young people feel benevolent to their elders (but not betters) who have mortgaged the future of their children to grant themselves enormous pensions and entitlements.

Kinda harsh don't you think, John. Besides, your premise is so full of holes it can pass for swiss cheese, my friend.

Gery, yes, that's the way I felt after writing it, maybe it was kinda harsh. I wasn't feeling very benevolent. Maybe too many video games.