The Economic Euphoria Is Merely a Whitewash

In Martha Groves’ “Screen Parable Explores Dynamics of Workplace Power and Ethics” (Corporate Currents, Aug 3.), she states that because of downsizing and concomitant job insecurity, “angst, misery and anger reign in many fast-shifting companies.”

Every day the media tout the terrific economy while employees are being laid off to cut expenses and enhance corporate profits. Investors gleefully up share prices every time a layoff is announced.

There exists a sense that the structural foundation of America’s corporations may wobble, shake and collapse.

Something is out of kilter in the greatest economy the world has ever known when the greedy are separated from the middle and working classes by such a large sum.

In the land of opportunity, one has options now according to where one hangs his hat on the income scale. In other words, how can a tall, proud structure stand if its foundation keeps shaking and shrinking?

For the bulls it’s a gentle roller-coaster ride. To us in the lower classes, it’s a system that is constantly glamorized by the owners of the media to ensure their own profit. Will the structure collapse or will the good-times whitewash by the media, Washington, D.C., and others prevail?

DIANE FORVE

Mar Vista