With the few exceptions of extreme things like selling Drugs to addicts,
selling Guns to terrorists, selling stolen goods, I find it hard to call any
seller "unethical", if there is a willing buyer, and if it is clearly
disclosed what is being sold without attempting to deceive the buyer, and
they are not positioned enabling them to unfairly control the market.
Instead, I'd argue, the problem is "education". People not fully knowing or
understanding the "value" of something, allow room for the people more
educated and knowledgable on the topic, to make more (or additional) money
off of it. I am not referring to education as "schooling", sometimes
education is simply "experience".
For those of you that disagree, go after the Fuel Companies instead, these
Gas Prices are killing me!! :-)
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck McCown - 3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Update from the FCC on 3.65Ghz and CBP
> If you buy a security, the prices rises, you sell the security, you make
> money.
> You have not added anything of value to the world. Irrespective of the
> nature of the company behind the security. Even if you are investing in a
> company that rescues slave labor children from sweatshops, if it is traded
> on an open exchange, the money you make or lost on the trade does not
> really
> help the company.
>
> The original point was revolving around adding value.
>
> A mutual fund that includes in its portfolio a stock of a car company
> making
> electrical vehicles does not make that investment any more of a value
> added
> proposition than investing in the stock of a company that sets up payday
> loan stores. The securities trading of a companies stock does little for
> a
> company past the initial IPO. Unless you are an IPO buyer, all securities
> are essentially tulip bulbs in holland in the 1637.
>
> But getting back to the tangent that has nothing to do with WISPA or 3.65,
> muddyfrog said that he does not believe in investments where there is no
> added value. I proffered that precludes securities trading. With the
> exception of IPOs and angel investment (I have done and continue to do
> both)
> securities trading adds no value and is only a form of regulated gambling.
> I have no problem with it. But one could extrapolate that muddyfrog
> logically should.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jack Unger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 11:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Update from the FCC on 3.65Ghz and CBP
>
>
>> Not really; it depends on what the mutual fund chooses to "invest" in.
>> If the mutual fund invests in businesses that makes
>> greenhouse-gas-reducing electric vehicles for example, that might be
>> very acceptable ("ethical") to some. On the other hand, investing in a
>> mutual fund that invests in finance companies that specialize in
>> misleading homeowners into taking out home loans that result in draining
>> the existing equity out of the home then throwing the homeowner out
>> might be considered not-acceptable ("unethical") by others.
>>
>> Chuck McCown - 3 wrote:
>>> Then I guess the precludes any participation in any mutual fund or
>>> almost
>>> any type of broker investments.
>>> Oh well...
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
>>> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 8:56 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Update from the FCC on 3.65Ghz and CBP
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> It does mine.
>>>>
>>>> Inflating the price of a needed commodity - that is, increasing it with
>>>> no
>>>> added value - is unethical, in my estimation.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>> <insert witty tagline here>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Chuck McCown - 3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 4:41 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Update from the FCC on 3.65Ghz and CBP
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Yeahbut,
>>>>> recognizing an arbitrage opportunity does not trigger my ethical
>>>>> shutdown
>>>>> circuit.
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Mike Hammett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 5:33 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Update from the FCC on 3.65Ghz and CBP
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> A lot of times, flipping a house is nothing more than putting on a
>>>>>> fresh
>>>>>> coat of paint.
>>>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>> --
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>> Serving the Broadband Wireless Industry Since 1993
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>> Phone 818-227-4220 Email <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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