Interview with Ricardo Semler

Interview with Ricardo Semler, Chairman of Brazilian Company Semco, a democratic workplace. Aired on Australian ABC television 7:30 Report March 2007
Check out this video for a tour of SEMCO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG3HPX0D2mU&feature=related

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• workplace
• democracy
• economic
• justice
• business

[benrfc]

@RSUMGNDES111 but you're a zero

[malindavanderwal]

nice interview

[LibertarianAtheistDR]

@indefiance24

Hooray for marginal utility!

[RSUMGNDES111]

heey my last name is semler

[lovelplants]

interesting indeed. 

[indefiance24]

@CUMBICA1970 I would argue that this point of view arises from a fundamental misunderstanding of market economics. Prices are relative, not absolute. If your in a desert, nearly dead from thirst, and you have a million dollars. IF I walked up with a canteen of water, then guess what, a canteen of water just become worth a million dollars. This demonstrates how prices and valuations change according to circumstance. We both benefitted from the transaction. It wasn't a zero sum game.

[BayStateObserver]

@clubnaj Well put. Well put indeed!

[CUMBICA1970]

@ghostofanonion "One can only be wealthy if someone else is poor." This assumption is ultimately true. It's simple math. Take example the US: they have arguably the world's highest average income and still 40+ million live in poverty. Even if they double this average I'm 100% sure this structure will remain the same. And I'm not even counting the old trick of transferring production sites overseas but those workers (though 100% involved in the organization) conveniently hid from the stat.

[BaldeagleVIP]

I 100% agree with Ricardo 

[ghostofanonion]

@clubnaj Why pay the fisherman anything, when you can fish for yourself 4 fish a day minus 1 for the net. Don't get me wrong I'm all for invention. Just simplifying these equations dosn't work.