White-collar crime and crime itself are often understood as the manufacture of survival zones through the control, domination, and compartmentalization of structures within the hierarchy. The hierarchy contributes to top-down control and makes people suffer in survival zones. It can also be about greed. However, most of the time, it is a mixture of both, and both are manufactured. I think conditions have evolved so much that survival zones are intentionally manufactured to increase the likelihood that employees will fail, putting them into a downward spiral feedback loop. This concept usually makes them try harder and harder to contribute to an out-of-control industrial conveyor-belt assembly line. Industrial Earth has been treating people like widgets and machines for a very long time. I thought things were getting better because of all the talk about sustainability indices and people being put in positions called sustainability managers, etc.
Furthermore, I hypothesize that extreme Materialism is an industrial earth-manufactured concept. Minimalism is less impactful. Industrial Earth wants you to buy as much stuff as possible so that you will be a loyal employee. This behavior also contributes to the traditional industrial Earth paradigm of short-term profits and investments. Materialism, if employees buy into it, leads people to be more ingratiating toward traditional, controlling, dominating, hierarchical structures. My second hypothesis is that it may not be greed. It may mean that people are so in debt that they can’t live without their jobs. I believe industrial Earth Manufacturers apply the concept of materialism to keep loyal, ingratiating employees. This potentially downward-spiraling feedback loop creates another-manufactured survival-zone condition in itself.
We could really use a Unidiversity research explorer cycle right now, or a We-Me explorer cycle (for short), because we could instantly Census all employees on earth to find out whether they are experiencing these imposed survival zones. Moreover, we could find out whether they feel like they’re on an assembly line, a conveyor belt, or in an industrial earth paradigm. Imposed survival-zone conditions can affect an employee in many ways. Many of them include mental health problems, relationship problems, being taken from problems, firing problems, and a wide variety of other issues. When I talk about industrial Earth, I’m not just talking about industrial corporations. I’m talking about all the structure and functioning on Earth because we are all employed by a planet Earth industrial machine. Politicians and countries can be placed in a survival zone and suffer as well. Even compartmentalized organizations within the hierarchy can be placed in a survival zone, suffering as a whole, depending on the needs of the industrial establishment.
Consequently, sometimes the industrial earth establishment deliberately creates “criminals” on purpose, and other times it is a more indirect relationship, so they can be used as blame mechanisms, scapegoats, diversions, distractions, and whatever the unhealthy organization manufactures. If a person temporarily leaves industrial Earth, they may be exposed to environmental injustice, pollution, social injustice, and other injustices, leading to suffering in the external survival zone until reemployment. Sometimes, industrial earth behaviors are carried out through the takings, extraction, exchange, and exclusion cycle, which drains people’s energy, creative ideas, wives, and anything else imaginable, and does so intentionally, behind the scenes. Remember, industrial earth is a multidimensional, confining, compartmentalized, hierarchical structure that employs infinite variable politicization and infinite variability. It’s sort of like chess, but each chess piece has multiple functions that can be changed anytime the controlling domination wants to change them. The same is true for the organization level as well. It also represents an organizational structure that functions similarly to those hierarchical structures that I just mentioned. I hypothesize that there is an overall industrial earth-manufacturing machine that controls and dominates the chess pieces, whether they are organizations or individual people. There is too much omertà to figure this concept out right now. Again, that is another reason we need a Unidiversity Research, Explorer Cycle, or a We-Me cycle (for short). To solve this, we can census every employee on Earth to get a close-to-reality picture of the situation. There is no way a traditional investigation can figure this out without the We-Me Explorers cycle. It would take forever. Consequently, I believe in this holistic research exploration perspective, rather than traditional investigations. Traditional investigations are like big black holes and function according to the politics of those in control. Nobody does it better than each of us and all of us together. World without end….
My recent reflections have led me to a critical re-evaluation of contemporary societal structures and their profound impact on human well-being. It is increasingly evident that many of the challenges we face, often mislabeled as individual failings or isolated acts of “white-collar crime,” or crime itself, are in fact symptomatic of deeply ingrained systemic issues. Far from being solely attributable to individual greed, these issues are often rooted in the deliberate design of domination and control within hierarchical systems.
The pervasive concept of “survival zones” is not a natural byproduct of competition, but rather, I contend, a manufactured condition. These zones are intentionally engineered within organizational hierarchies to create an environment in which individuals are perpetually striving, often caught in a downward-spiral feedback loop. This mechanism compels them to exert ever-increasing effort on what can only be described as an industrial conveyor belt, relentless and unyielding. For far too long, our collective “Industrial Earth” paradigm has treated its participants as mere cogs in a machine, disposable widgets in a larger, impersonal system. Survival zones in an organization become deadly when manufactured survival zones emerge outside the traditional hierarchical structures, resulting in severe survival-zone suffering and, at times, a wild-animal type of functioning, as if a survival zone wolf were backed into a corner.
Despite the proliferation of discussions about “sustainability indices” and the creation of roles such as “sustainability managers,” I have observed little substantive change. These initiatives often feel like superficial adjustments, failing to address the fundamental power imbalance and the systemic production of these very survival zones within and outside hierarchical structures. Even when seemingly outside hierarchical structures, people enter different industrial machine structures, such as social security, medical, and psychological structures and functions. I am not sure how much hierarchical structure plays in those areas of welfare, etc.
To truly understand and ultimately dismantle these oppressive structures and functions, we require an entirely new investigative paradigm. I propose the urgent implementation of a “Unidiversity Research Explorer Cycle,” or the “We-Me Explorer Cycle” for brevity. This pioneering methodology would enable us to conduct an unprecedented global census of all employees, regardless of their role or industry. Its primary objective would be to empirically determine the prevalence and impact of these intentionally imposed survival zones. Crucially, it would also gauge the extent to which individuals feel dehumanized, as if on an assembly line, within the sprawling framework of “Industrial Earth.”
The consequences of these imposed survival zones are far-reaching and devastating. They manifest as severe mental health crises, deteriorating personal relationships, professional stagnation, wrongful terminations, and a litany of other profound challenges that erode human dignity and potential. When I refer to “Industrial Earth,” my scope extends far beyond traditional corporations. I encompass the entirety of global structure and function, recognizing that we are all, in essence, employees of an encompassing planetary industrial machine. Even those at the highest echelons, such as politicians or entire compartmentalized organizations, can find themselves subjected to these same conditions of manufactured suffering, contingent on the strategic needs of the overarching “Industrial Earth establishment.”
A disturbing facet of this system is the deliberate manufacturing of “criminals” or scapegoats, including the controlling dominators themselves. These individuals or entities are strategically positioned by unhealthy organizations as blame mechanisms, diversions, or distractions to deflect accountability. This behavior is often a direct consequence of a deeply entrenched “takings, extraction, exchange, and exclusion cycle,” which systematically siphons human energy, appropriates creative ideas, and exploits every conceivable resource and relationship for concealed, intentional gain.
It is imperative to recognize that “Industrial Earth” operates as a multidimensional, confining, compartmentalized, and hierarchical structure. It leverages concepts of infinite variable politicization and limitless adaptability. This intricate system resembles a complex game of chess, where each piece possesses multiple functions that can be altered at will by the controlling forces. This dynamic applies equally at the organizational level. Sometimes the chessboard is even changed if things get really bad for industrial Earth.
My central hypothesis is that an overarching “Industrial Earth manufacturing machine” exerts control and domination over all elements within this vast system, be they organizations or individual people. The current “omertà,” or code of silence, surrounding these truths makes a traditional investigation utterly ineffective. This further underscores the indispensable need for the “We-Me Explorer Cycle.” Only through such a holistic and inclusive research approach can we truly uncover the reality of our situation, bypassing the inherent biases and limitations of conventional investigative methods which are often co-opted by those in power.
I firmly believe that our path forward lies in this holistic research exploration, grounded in collective insight and empirical data. No single entity can unravel this complexity; it requires the combined wisdom and effort of all of us. World without end…
Richard Thomas Simmons
World without end…