Darryl Shannon wrote:
>
> OK, what's up with all the greed bashing? Corporations exist to make
> money, and the shareholders are greedy!
>
> Well, what about you all? Do you work for free? Or do you get paid to
> work? Would you voluntarily accept a pay cut? No, you want to be paid
> as much money as possible. And what's wrong with that? Even if you
> choose a low-paying job because it fits your chosen life-style, you
> have greedily chosen the most fulfilling, rewarding work you can find.
> Welcome to humanity
What about me? If I had financial problems, would I dump members of my family
to save money? Of course not. Would a corporation dump employees faithful to
them for decades? In a second. I don't think the comparison between
corporations and individuals is valid. And even if it is, its not rely
germane to the argument. Many or most corporations may be greedy, many people
may be greedy, but is a society based on greed our vision of the future?
Corporations have little forsight, they often seem to exist from quarter to
quarter with very little consideration of how their actions might effect
others or even themselves a year or two down the line. Thus we get companies
that don't recall a faulty tire as soon as they discover a problem with it
because it will cost them too much short term. If they sat down and thought
about it for a few minutes it would probably occur to them that its gonna cost
them far more in the future if they don't recall the tires, but today's bottom
line is the holy grail, so they don't think about it or they cross their
fingers, close their eyes and hope it all goes away. We get this same
scenario played out over and over again by greedy corporations and they are
getting larger and gaining more and more power over our everyday lives. Do we
really want such short sighted soulless, conscienceless entities controlling
our destiny?
I'm not against capitalism or corporations, but I am against yielding the
future to them entirely.
>
> The way capitalists make money is by serving their fellow man. The
> more I give you what you want, the more money I make. Capitalism is a
> system that emulates the massively parallel computing system known as
> evolution.
But we alone, of all the life forms that have evolved, have some control over
our own destiny. We can choose civility over brutality and make it work! We
don't have to rely wholly on natural selection!
Planning on a nation-wide scale is impossible. Even in
> your own body 99% of all processes are automatic and decentralized.
> Yes, our economic system is out of control! And attempting to control
> it will simply make things worse.
>
I know I've heard you tout "the rule of law" numerous times on this list.
What is the rule of law other than an attempt to control?
Doug
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"No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an
obstacle in the way of a right understanding of the relations which culture
sustains
to wildness as that which regards the world as made especially for the uses of
man. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms.
Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious,
and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go
unchallenged."
John Muir
