{"id":2073,"date":"2016-11-07T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/system-rigged_110716\/"},"modified":"2016-11-07T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T13:42:00","slug":"system-rigged_110716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/system-rigged_110716\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes,  the system is rigged\u2026 and the only way to unrig it is by reeducating ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/storage\/app\/uploads\/public\/582\/084\/f16\/582084f162b5a023827890.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thank the lord the worst election in living memory is only hours away from being done \u2013 whether a legacy politician or a dinosaur businessman wins, three outcomes are clear:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You need a couple of billion dollars in the bank before you can even contemplate a run (so much for \u201cdemocracy\u201d);<\/li>\n<li>Neither candidate has any innovative policies to find a way forward for the country;<\/li>\n<li>The system is \u201crigged\u201d everywhere, but unrigging it requires a very difference approach.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So we can quickly avoid the first two issues \u2013 not much we can do about those right now, barring revolutions and assassinations. However, the third issue is something that we can associate within our very own industry of business operations.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\">\u00a0The &#8220;system&#8221; is all about maximizing margins without too much disruption<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I recall working an outsourcing deal, about 5 years\u2019 back, and I was informed by the client \u201call roles we are keeping are to be created in India, unless there is a clear business case to keep them onshore\u201d. I was recently consulted to talk to the same client about the \u201cnext phase\u201d of their \u201cvalue journey\u201d, which was simply \u201call processes are to be automated, unless there is a clear business case to have a person involved\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Great \u2013 so we\u2019ve moved from shifting work overseas simply to eliminating it altogether.\u00a0\u00a0 That is the \u201csystem\u201d, where only money talks anymore \u2013 the same system that presented this poor US electorate with two awful candidates who have only been focused on outspending each other on negative commercials, rather than proposing anything sensible for the country to create jobs and drive new growth and innovation. Is this really the best \u201cdemocracy\u201d could come up with, in the richest country in the world posing as the \u201cland of the free\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\">It\u2019s time for a big reset\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Most people have got lazier in the last 5+ years.\u00a0 Virtual working, digital burnout, Millennials with a warped idea of what <em>work <\/em>actually is, new forms of adult ADD&#8230; whatever&#8230; something <em>negative<\/em> happened in the workplace and it&#8217;s getting harder and harder to find people with that &#8220;go the extra mile&#8221; attitude these days. \u00a0So many people have a sense of entitlement we&#8217;ve never seen before. \u00a0It scares the sh*t out of me. Forget \u201cnew normal\u201d\u2026 we need a whole new reality.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to need a great big reset, driven by government, to get people relevant for this changing workplace.\u00a0 At some future stage, we are going to have another downturn and these issues of worker apathy and irrelevance will magnify exponentially. People will actually have to <em>take shitty jobs again<\/em>&#8230; my god. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\">The Bottom-line: It\u2019s all about resetting, retraining and reeducating ourselves<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Investments at a huge level must be made in training and education, not handouts to people who&#8217;ve just lost interest in working anymore and like to complain the system is rigged against them. This would also stimulate a much larger and more flourishing education sector that creates more jobs and innovation. We need less of the angry politicians playing on the increasingly disenfranchised population. We need leaders focused on inspiring people to <em>reinvent<\/em> themselves, re-educate themselves and find that zest for working again. And not only do we need people who can understand data, digital apps, robotics and artificial intelligence\u2026 we need people who can cook great cuisine, compose decent music, write great books, teach our kids, police our cities\u2026 we need to unrig this system that has lost itself somewhere between a balance sheet, social media\u00a0soundbites and bad news coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank the lord the worst election in living memory is only hours away from being done \u2013 whether a legacy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[853],"tags":[303],"ppma_author":[19],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yes, the system is rigged\u2026 and the only way to unrig it is by reeducating ourselves - Horses for Sources | No Boundaries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/system-rigged_110716\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yes, the system is rigged\u2026 and the only way to unrig it is by reeducating ourselves - 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