At 2pm I left my office for lunch break to have a breakfast, isn’t that strange that at lunch time having breakfast. Yes it is strange but this is not strange to work until the next morning in your office without any sip of water. I worked went to a coffee to have my favorite cold coffee as I reached my phone rang with a ringtone “Donkey is calling” “Donkey is calling” “Donkey is calling”, yeah you heard something strange again, we Call our boss with this name in our colleagues it is normal to have a cruel boss at office but strange to have a boss with that characters, I picked up boss “jack where are you the market is going down and the stocks are at risk just come as soon as possible and take the charge we need to look into the market very carefully.”
Me to the coffee shop salesman, dude I think you coffee shop is at risk I need to get back to work, he looked strangely and smiled faintly, how could be my shop at risk my sales are very good. I just said man it’s the philosophy of market just keep the change I am in hurry lets discuss this another time. I went straight to my cabin and asked our office boy to get me some water. He went to get some water but even I wasn’t able to drink the water at the time as our paramedics were at risk.
The medicine prices went too far abruptly and the demand increased as well the capital resource were not that good to meet the liabilities thus we were just drowning on the surface of the tsunami. We needed to introduce new product to the market for bringing the market into equilibrium back. Substitutes were not that the good to consider the best alternates, the only alternate solution which I saw during these shocks in market was to forgo something in the capital resources but that would have possibly stressed our upcoming market signals as well upon the scarcity.
That was again risking the coffee at the road side as it would have probably. Mobilization of savings of course can reduce the risk while going for the first strategy but as an analyst I thought that would be choosing death for our economy instead it is better to let some products to suicide, ahah! Frankly speaking humans are inherently materialistic but by the means of social outcomes not by some external natural forces. At this stage this materialism as about the relationship between the ends and scarce means which had alternatives probably, in short human kind had unlimited wants so have to make choices among these available scarce resources.
At this time it was same that the available resources were not that enough to meet the wants of the existing population thereby we need to have something to forgo for bringing the market into its equilibrium. Therefor the only solution as an analyst I found was to sacrifice some existing paramedic’s products for bringing its stock to equilibrium from being wholly sacrificed. I just came by this solution and drafted my report for the seniors went far by and convinced my seniors to give this opinion to the paramedics company to eliminate some existing products but, for your inconvenience, everything was on our Donkey Gold Digger, yet I took the risk and went to my boss’s office presented my report that we need to eliminate some existing products.
But he didn’t agreed at all I just went too far for the sake of my country and told him that this will give us a big loss if we didn’t do so, but the only thing I found on his table was the greed not the report I drafted. He dismissed me and said come with another possible solution I could found another for days but I had decided that this is the only great solution to be in the equilibrium and bring the market into equilibrium.
He didn’t agreed on this I was wondering what the hell is thinking on the earth, but then something strange happened again I heard that he has some shares in the paramedics so he don’t want it to loss. Holy shit I thought so there was something strange with him but he still didn’t agreed that way and wont allowed me to reach to upper seniors for approving this I couldn’t reach them without his approval.
Finally, I attempted one last time to convince him but this time he warned me not to come with this report again that was something strange that could have happened to me. Anyways I give up and didn’t tried to convince him anymore the next year we resulted in a big loss and hit back by a big shock which gave us some surplus for the next year and the market remained disturbed for the next year which gave us a big loss in our economy he lost his stock to a greater extent. The only thing which lead us to this much loss was Greed of course we would have lost some margin of the profit at the time but the loss would be not this much as I assumed. I let him knew another day that why I wanted to let some products to forgo, that would have been our opportunity cost but you didn’t agreed at all now let’s face this shock in the market .
But the commitment changes everything he challenged me but turn the table over story as well. What if we don’t have choice at this type of situation? What should we do? Do we just care about us only? Do we need to care about others? Do we need to consider other substitutes in the existing market? Everything is connected with each other in economics theories that’s how we chose, our decision making must be free of any personal profit, greed or ego, before these things we have a lot to consider why would one just only think about himself even they know that with this we are just pissing our own life.
The main question which comes here is that “Do we need to let some margin of the profit to get more than expected margin in the next phases?” this why need to think free of personal interests. Our personal interests usually just confined our thinking capability to certain boundaries lets have some external reasons to let our mind free of personal interest while making decisions in professional settings. If my boss would have did something in that way he would have probably a great margin of the profit for the next year but greed let him to not think about other things but just the profit.
Supportive article, Do We Care Enough to Choose Wisely?
Supply and Demand
This story narrates the frustrating experience of an employee fighting against corporate greed and poor leadership during an economic crisis. It highlights how personal interests can block rational decision-making in professional environments, leading to collective losses. Through market analysis, opportunity cost, and the ethics of decision-making, the story reveals the importance of thinking beyond personal profit for long-term success.A hardworking analyst faces a corporate crisis when the healthcare market crashes due to rising medicine prices and resource scarcity. He suggests sacrificing certain products to stabilize the market but is dismissed by his greedy boss, nicknamed “Donkey.” Despite his analysis being correct, his proposal is ignored to protect the boss's personal shares. Eventually, the company suffers a major loss—a crisis that could have been avoided had decisions been driven by logic rather than personal gain.
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