Re: [NTLK] Quote of the day!

On 7/13/07, Martin Joseph <NT@stillnewt.org> wrote:
>
> On Jul 13, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Steven Scotten wrote:
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> > Companies do *not* exist to make money
>
> Companies do not exist to provide a social benefit. Wake up and
> smell the coffee.

A better way to put it is to say that they exist to make a
profit--providing a social benefit is the means.

BTW, this is the fundamental difference between "greed" and "profit
motive." Greed is destructive, self-serving (robbery, graft, etc.).
Profit motive is constructive (service, creating of products, etc.).
One other tangental thought. All through history, the essential,
driving force to commerce was the need/desire to provide for
family--which sort of precludes greed--and puts the meat on the bones
of profit motive. In today's society, with the dissolution of the
biological family as the core unit, there is no longer a fundamental
need to provide for others, thus removing an obstacle to greed (and
arguably the final obstacle). This is all philosophical, of course,
but the realities of it are seen, played out every day by all of us.
Odd stuff, that, eh?

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