At 9:25 am -0400 30/8/06, Horst Herb wrote:
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 08:02, Peter Machell wrote:
Business aspects come absolutely last in my workshop, every time. I'd
be constantly broke without others to assist me with billing etc. I
think this attitude is peculiar to really good, honest small
companies, not just to Medicine.
You are right.
"Business" is what is destroying the fabric of society, wasting our natural
resources, polluting the planet. Business here defined as anything seeing
it's goal in "maximising monetary profit"
Well yes...(see documentary video "The Corporation if you want to know why)
...but many innovations of modern life were also brought to life by
businesses and without them we wouldn't be here doing what we are
doing:
* machinery, in particular agricultural and earthmoving/mining which
make the country wealthy
* electric lights and appliances
* telephones
* computers - hardware, software
* Google
The spectrum of businesses is not a lot different from the spectrum
of people - there are exemplary and awful and everything in between.
It is the role of government to set the rules under which businesses
and people live harmoniously with the world. If there is any
imbalance, it is fundamentally caused by government, not business.
Ian.
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