august 1, 2013: 2

lastly, if the US corporations do not pay taxes to countries overseas (Apple, Microsoft, etc), I am assuming that foreigners corporations do not pay taxes to the US government when they do business in America. that doesn't really bother me. what bothers me is that foreign corporations do not have to abide by the same labor laws that US corporations have to and perhaps not even the same environmental standards. what are the rules concerning the regulations of foreign corporations? are the lack of these regulations giving foreign corporations a leg upon American corporations?

when i speak to Koreans who work for French corporations, they tell me that there is no lunch break, no overtime, etc.

a great sales rep always tells me about the aggressive sales increase goals of Loreal, a French corporation. there's great drive and passion in this corporation.

when I speak to the rep from P&G (proctor and gamble, a very successful American corporation), he'll telling me that they are getting killed by Loreal in the middle-of-the-road beauty industry.

EXCELLENCE is an extreme. I think it is Aristotle who said that. the culture in America is a culture of "sophrosune" or in other words, be mediocre at everything and good at nothing. the problem is how to find the balance, the golden mean in that extreme.