--- Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Mario, > > It's such a lark to state that because domestic help > is hard to come by, they get treated well. > Mario observes: > When was the last time you hired domestic help in India? I know people in Mumbai and Pune who pay their workers well, provide a place for them to live, pay them throughout the year even though they are away about 30% of the time, and they have had the same workers for decades. > Selma writes: > > Let me tell you of a famous experiment conducted > that revealed some horrible insights into human > nature. A test group was split into two. One group > was to role-play prison guards, the other as > prisoners. Even though this was a role-play and > clear boundaries were set, within a few days, the > prison guards started treating the prisoners with > the utmost cruelty and ignoring the boundaries > just because they could. There is something in human > nature that makes us believe that certain sections > of society can be mistreated because they are within > our power. > Mario observes: > Your experiment is out of context with employees, both business and domestic, because prison guards are not responsible for making a profit or having their domestic lives disrupted due to dis-satisfied workers. > I'm not sure what kinds of characters they used in your "role-playing" experiment, but even REAL prison guards would not treat REAL prisoners as per your description, for fear of losing their own jobs. > It seems obvious to me that your curious theories and "role-playing" with human nature has made you miss the woods for the trees. > I have lived far longer than you have, in three different continents, have hired, trained and developed dozens of low and high level workers in India on behalf of two major corporations, and cannot even recognize what you have described above. > It was I who would have been fired if I had come even close to treating my subordinates as you are suggesting the prison guards treated their prisoners. > No corporation would survive in a competitive free-market economy under the conditions you describe. >
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