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1 posted on 07/09/2004 12:24:09 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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2 posted on 07/09/2004 12:27:34 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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To: Hank Kerchief

How does one decide when the profit has reached an immoral level?


3 posted on 07/09/2004 12:30:49 PM PDT by stuartcr
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To: Hank Kerchief

Successful businessmen these days must learn how to discount and quantify the effects of state intervention in the market, and how to extract economic rents under the guise of serving the public good.

Ayn Rand had it right on this issue, as on no other.


4 posted on 07/09/2004 12:37:34 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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To: Hank Kerchief
"Business is based on the idea that self-interest and the desire for profit are moral and good..."

I'm gonna stop at this first sentence.

Business is not an exercise in morality, unless one has the luxury, and a desire to make it one.
(the same is true of everything)

Business is a vehicle that provides food, shelter, and clothing. It need be, and usually is, nothing more.

5 posted on 07/09/2004 1:06:29 PM PDT by laotzu
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