Business isn’t anything like the infantry, other than engineering public works.

Business isn’t anything like the infantry, other than engineering public works.

It bears little resemblance to the work of officers only in bureaucracies.

And it begins to be similar when one compares the work of most work to that if high level officers and politicians.

Major reasons are:

1) Emphasis on reward vs risk.

2) Emphasis on defection ( competition ) vs duty ( loyalty )

For the lower classes risk mitigation, direction and loyalty provide security. They think in controlling costs.

For the upper classes reward opportunities, innovation, and defection provide security. They thin in creating opportunities.

This is fairly obvious.

What is not obvious is contrasting the difference in bonds which decreases as one increases in rank precisely because it limits opportunity.

In other words politicians have the inverse incentives of soldiers.

And business people have the approximate incentives of high ranking officers.

And labor had the approximate incentives of low level officers.

And the underclasses have the incentives of soldiers.

And not surprisingly that’s how demographics tend to work out.

Incentives.