I'm as much an uber-capitalist as you are likely to find, but I don't disagree with that at all. Right action leads to far greater long-term success - the danger is short-term thinking. Grabbing for the goal today with no thought of tomorrow is like eating seed-corn. And unfortunately, it's an epidemic among the Fortune 500 these days. :(
"I'm as much an uber-capitalist as you are likely to find, but I don't disagree with that at all. Right action leads to far greater long-term success - the danger is short-term thinking. Grabbing for the goal today with no thought of tomorrow is like eating seed-corn. And unfortunately, it's an epidemic among the Fortune 500 these days. :("
I agree with you about the short term vs long term thinking. It's very easy for us to decide what makes us happy in the short term, much more difficult to determine if that which just made us happier will eventually cause us pain. That's where morality comes in.
Morals are simply guidelines to help us make the right short term decision (so that we won't suffer greater pains down the road).