Today's global financial condition is a strike of the minds.

Today's global financial condition is a strike of the minds.

Risk is being shunned. Returns are no longer measured by rates on principle. Returns are judged by the guarantee of there actually being a return.

The world is divided into two groups: The labor group is composed of workers who are willing to strike in order to take more from their employer companies for the same or less effort. The mind group is composed of owners, inventors, entrepreneurs, and managers who devise, operate, and run the companies that employ the labor group to perform the tasks devised by the mind group.

During the 20th century labor gained a voice and fought en masse against owners and managements. The tool they used against the mind group is the strike or the strike threat. The labor group can go on strike to damage the companies that pay them wages and benefits.

Over the last eight decades, labor groups have successfully intimidated, shut down, and cost enough in production and profits that mind groups learned to surrender to labor groups' demands. To prevent or end a strike, mind groups increased benefits and wages for labor groups.

During the 20th century, the strike developed into a legitimatized tool. It grew in to protected status by federal law to the point that often the mere threat of calling a strike would force mind groups to back down and give in to worker groups' demands.

Mind groups have intrinsic need and desire to promote efficient operation of their companies. They prefer to prevent damage from being inflicted upon their companies. Mind groups understand that they are critical to the daily efficient operation of their companies. They are at least as needed as the worker groups. Actually they are more critical. If mind groups never existed, labor groups would have only shovel-ready jobs, not manufacturing jobs. But who would -- or could -- design, develop, and manufacture the shovels?

But mind groups are self-constrained, prevented by logic, and understand that the best interests of their companies and labor groups mandate them to ensure uninterrupted, efficient operations. Therefore mind groups know that they should not strike.

Mind groups understand that if they want to improve operations, productivity, profits, working conditions, or nearly any aspect of any company, they must remain on the job, work to devise improvements, implement those plans, verify that there is improvement, and tune those improvements. Mind groups must be performing their jobs to ensure that companies operate and improve operations, productivity, and products.

Today in America labor groups have become shielded and empowered by federal and state laws. Labor groups understand this and act with omnipotence. Whether they demand higher wages, fewer work hours, more benefits, or changed working conditions, they stand prepared to strike in the name of improving something for themselves with increased cost to their employer companies.

Going on strike is antithetical to the mind group. People who have and use minds understand that they ethically cannot strike. If mind groups were to strike, they would damage their companies as well as labor groups. Without mind groups to invent, operate the back-office, and manage labor groups, companies would be less able to produce, less productive, and eventually shut down totally.

The mind group cannot go on strike. Its strike would have immediate detrimental impacts upon product development, marketing, finance, productivity, operations, and eventually cause permanent stoppage of all company operations. Mind groups cannot be replaced.

Labor groups can go on strike. Their strike may temporarily slow or stop companies' operations. A strike by a labor group will strangle -- but not kill -- a company in the near-term. Labor groups can be replaced.

Labor groups and their protector, the government (which exists only with the votes of labor groups) understand that mind groups are trapped in an ethical conundrum.

Labor groups, operating in concert with the government, have no fear of mind groups. Labor groups know that they can always call in the government to fight mind groups and protect labor from mind group work standards and rules. Labor groups can call upon government to force mind groups to accede to their demands.

Mind groups were doomed. Before today's minds went on strike, they were forced to stand passively. Minds were forced to accept labor (and government) demands. They had little recourse beyond observing further damage and destruction inflicted upon their companies by labor groups' demands for more of their companies' efficiencies, profitability, and productivity.

Little recourse, that is, until the global financial stoppage. This macro event labeled a crisis by politicians and labor is actually a mind strike. It is mind groups' way of going on strike. Minds have withdrawn their capital from labor.

Investment is slowing, credit is evaporating, and -- therefore -- labor is losing its jobs. Governments are near-powerless to force minds into investment and credit expansion. Governments' last tool is nationalization. Nationalization brings bureaucracies and inefficiencies and can never replace efficiencies of minds.

This strike is shaping up to be the Great Equalizer. Mind groups everywhere are on strike. Mind groups have begun an effective global stoppage of business activity.

Labor likely will never understand -- and minds are powerless to explain to labor -- but it should be apparent to all who possess a mind how very, very delicate is the smooth flow of business activity. All business activity is dependent within intertwined detail upon all other business activity. Damage an industry in the global economy and labor and mind groups will see all industries of commerce collapse like houses of cards.

Today's Great Strike will hold efficient business activities hostage. It will force minds and labor to cooperate within capitalism or cease making progress under socialism.