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Bill D. Cochon

Bill D. Cochon

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Bill D. Cochon
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Bill D. Cochon
Director, Finance Division

Working within the corporation for many years, Bill D. Cochon became director of the finance division in May 2003 after climbing the steps one by one in the division's daily business department. As comfortable with legal investments As comfortable with legal investments as he is with fraud of all sorts, Cochon managed to almost double the corporation's assets since he was nominated as director.

In September 2004, he submitted a vital report recommending the complete dismantlement of the production and transport departments of the corporation, selling their activities to international subcontractors. Two months later, when the proposition was accepted, the human resources director and president Frank T. Piggs proceeded to fire 4 600 employees, reducing the corporation's yearly expenses by more than 7 million dollars. The board of directors proceeded to grant themselves a 150% salary increase to celebrate their latest decision.

A long-time friend of CEO and principal shareholder John H. Piggs, he shares with him his lust for luxury and his desire to make the corporation one of the most powerful entities of the country.

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First of a three images serie entitled "Corporate Pigs" depicting how I see today's corporate leaders. I hope you like it. :)

Make sure you take a look at the other ones :

Frank T. Piggs by  kemp
Edward J. Mudeater by  kemp
 
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Avatar Simba

 02/27/07 @529

funny concept indeeeed (thumbup)
 
Avatar Cigaro

 02/27/07 @646

hell yeah.
 
Avatar bradyscott

 02/27/07 @668

Very constructive concept. I like where you are going and I can't wait to see the rest of the series. It looks like something that belongs in a CD booklet. Great job!
 
Avatar Juro

 02/27/07 @691

Cool work, I like this.
 
Avatar loneorbit

 02/27/07 @733

Great concept and execution.
 
Avatar kittyKat

 02/27/07 @761

this rocks!
LOVE IT!
big fat PIGGY 10 babe!
 
Avatar Sammie

 02/27/07 @934

haha!

Very nice work.
 
Avatar ThruMyEyez

 02/28/07 @087

Excellent theme and execution!
 
Avatar Poohblah

 02/28/07 @154

Wait, so you think successful business leaders are pigs? This company made profits by giving its jobs to those who are most efficient at them, in this case overseas workers. The laid-off workers will fill positions domestically that they are more efficient at, and the increased profits of the high-ups will be recycled back into the economy, creating new jobs. This is why capitalism is so successful. No offense, nothing personal, but it seems quite obvious that you have never taken an economics class.

Great artwork, top marks, by the way. :)
 
Avatar kemp

 02/28/07 @169

Haha... of course I never took an economics class... I wouldn't want to end up like of of them...
 
Avatar Poohblah

 03/01/07 @231

I'm not saying that taking an economics class would make you one of "them," but it would make you understand why the decisions that your fictional character has made are perfectly rational. ;)
 
Avatar kemp

 03/01/07 @506

oh my... I really thought you were sarcastic on this one.... Yes I do believe corporate leaders are pigs...no matter how capitalism is so "successful". When 20% of the people share 80% of the wealth on the planet, I don't see it as a "successful" economic system.

Overseas workers are not simply "more efficient", they're cheaper and unprotected by our laws. Laid-off workers often have a hard time finding a new job because they all lost their job at the same time... Oh, and it has been proven many times that the increased profits of the high-ups doesn't actually gets recycled back into the economy like it should...

Sure...capitalism "works". But it ain't perfect and a part of the problem lies in the corporations... These things are too fuckn huge and have one sole purpose : profits. At any cost.

 
Avatar Poohblah

 03/02/07 @047

1st... may I see the numbers that "prove" your theory that money is not recycled back into the economy? When a person earns money, he will do one of two things. The first is buy goods and services or invest in capital, which employs workers and helps the economy. The second is save the money. Unless the money is put under a mattress, then that money will be used by banks to loan out to other people, who will use the borrowed money to buy goods and services or invest in capital, which again employs workers and therefore improves the economy.

2nd... Profit maximization is what drives our economies forward. Think of the computer you are using right now. A company decided to improve their profits by producing a cheaper, faster computer, since more consumers will buy a cheaper and faster computer. If we lived in a socialist economy, the company would have no incentives to improve their products, since they would receive the same amount of money from the government in any situation.

3rd... It is indeed true that 20% of the people share 80% of the wealth in the world. But in the U.S., the gap is much smaller, and a good deal of the world does not have the same capitalistic economy that the United States does. The wealthiest people in the U.S. have earned their money by hard work, but in most of the world, money travels through families. Most millionaires in the United States are first-generation millionaires, and the grandchildren of millionaires are rarely millionaires because they squander their parents money. Wealthy people in the U.S. are not pigs, they are hard workers.

4th... overseas workers... I won't even get into this. I could go on forever about why the Chinese making socks instead of Americans improves our economy. I could do it with numbers, graphs, charts words, you name it. Outsourcing American jobs improves the economy, despite the short-term setback of a loss of jobs (which is more than made up for in the long run). The fact that overseas workers do not have the same protections that we do is also not a valid argument, for reasons which are better explained by somebody other than me. I can tell you that sweatshop workers are just as happy as fishermen, or else those sweatshop workers would go fishing for a living (except for those uncommon instances where people are forced to work in sweatshops, and international laws and corporate policies protect against that).

And last... Profits drive our economy forward. There is no way around it. The only person supporting your argument is Karl Marx, and he was not alive to see what a massive failure your theory was.

If you wish to continue your argument, I suggest you pick up "Naked Economics" by Charles Wheelan or "The Armchair Economist" by Steven Landsburg. The former is the better in my opinion.

http://www.amazon.com/Naked-Economics-Undressing-Dismal-Science/dp/0393324869/sr=8-1/qid=1172793915/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-8675269-7719234?ie=UTF8&s=books
http://www.amazon.com/Armchair-Economist-Economics-Everyday-Experience/dp/0029177766/sr=1-1/qid=1172793966/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-8675269-7719234?ie=UTF8&s=books
 
Avatar kemp

 03/03/07 @654

... and I'd suggest you get your hands on some of Chomsky's works and Klein's "No Logo"...

Common... I can't believe you took the time to write all of this... you're taking this way too seriously. You do have some valid arguments, but you didn't convince me at all. All of this sounds rather nice in theory, but in practice, it's a major failure. (not an economic one, I admit it)

I'll stop right here... this place is supposed to be a place to discuss my works... not a place for you and me to fight over. If you really feel the urge to reply... please do so in a PM... I'll get back to you.
 
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