Entrepreneurs aka the job creators or the workers aka the wealth creators?
I dare them to conduct the same study at the New York Slimes.
Columbia, Yale, The Nation.....quite a resume this flaming pinko has.
The author either has not read The Fable of the Bees or is perhaps being dishonest here.
Mandeville was an influence on Keynes. He promoted the idea that prosperity comes from spending money, not saving/investing money.
Mandeville's book was scandalous in the early 1700s because he argued that drinkers, lechers, gamblers, etc. all helped the economy by freely spending money and basically redistributing wealth. Vice, he said, is good for society -- it gets money moving.
In today's world, Mandeville would surely be an Obama voter. It is a huge stretch to say that Mandeville was a capitalist.
Republicans need to distinguish between multi-nationals, foreign owned, anti-American corporations; and Main Street USA.
Corporations are killing our culture.
A recent study found that 10 percent of people who work on Wall Street are “clinical psychopaths,” exhibiting a lack of interest in and empathy for others and an “unparalleled capacity for lying, fabrication, and manipulation.”
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My ex daughter in law does not work on Wall Street, but the rest of the description matches her perfectly.
This sums it up really, really well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dwz_Z62e0s
The money quote as it applies here:
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. - Adam Smith
That is the secret of the free markets. Build a better mousetrap and live in a nicer house.
And yet, this evil, psychopathic system has generated more wealth and pulled more humans out of poverty and misery in the countries that tried it than any other system in the history of humanity. "Shafting your workers" -- and yet workers today in Capitalist countries have better living standards than workers in any other country and vastly better standards than workers had before Capitalism took hold. "Product safety violations" and yet, there are more products on the market that have materially benefited humanity than at any other time in human history.
This writer has absolutely no historical perspective. No understanding that, before Capitalism, people were literally dirt poor. They lived miserable subsistence existences. Now most people don't and its as a result of Capitalism.
politicians “are more likely to lie, cheat and break the law”
Read “Snakes in Suits”. For some areas of finance, it would be reasonable to expect this. The high risk, high reward nature of the work would attract them, along with the rather unstructured environment at many firms.
. . . And, as compared to those who work in government? Do we have those figures too?
“Well, consider the following. A recent study found that 10 percent of people who work on Wall Street are “clinical psychopaths,” exhibiting a lack of interest in and empathy for others and an “unparalleled capacity for lying, fabrication, and manipulation.” (The proportion at large is 1 percent.) Another study concluded that the rich are more likely to lie, cheat and break the law.”
AKA - Obama Donors
You never see Liberals giving their Resumes to Homeless People in order to get a job. It always seems to be the other way around. those that don’t realize this are psychos.
Capitalism is the economic system that is compatible with God-given natural rights, God-given human nature, and Biblical justice.
Capitalist values are also antithetical to democratic ones.
Capitalism is the economic system that is compatible with freedom and the idea that human relations should be voluntary and not coerced. Studies have also shown that capitalism and accumulation of wealth in a country tends to lead to more democracy in the long run. The order of the series of tendencies is the presence of property rights, cultural rationality, accumulation of capital and capital markets, and technological progress lead to prosperity, which leads to citizen empowerment, which leads to democracy.
The rich deserve our gratitude as well as everything they have, in other words, and all the rest is envy.
The process of capital accumulation by the rich, capitalists, and businessmen is a series of steps that as a natural part of the process naturally produces higher real wages for the average worker and thus a higher standard of living that is able to expand beyond subsistence, a larger share of total consumption by workers compared to the rich, greater economic progress and greater prosperity, and higher employment that is able to expand to meet population growth.
Capitalism is a pejorative word to describe
freedom and liberty created by Marxists.
I wonder what the percent of psychopaths is for people in congress. Easily higher than 10%. If socialist the percent is near 99% as that is all that system will filter through. When the rule becomes the rule of arbitrary force the murderer trumps the pickpocket.
If the public (as forced by the scoundrels in DC) weren't there to pick up the tab, many of those flaws would have been fixed years ago. The trapeze artist will do more spectacular flips when he knows the net is there to catch him .
As for the Walmart bribery scandal: Is that a Walmart problem or a problem with yet another generation of Mexican government officials who won't do their job unless la mordita is paid?
Grace’s Law: The larger the government the more Psychopaths it attracts to the highest positions of power.
I don't care who you are, that's funny!