Capitalism is a word that can mean so many things. Just a little too general for me because anyone, regardless of motive, who seeks, trades in, gathers, spends or deals in it is a capitalist.
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Jeff,
That is interesting, and thank you!
Under that defination of capitalism, I am definately a capitalist. I do a lot on the Net and with Ebay and I once paid for most of a trip to Disney by brokering Beanie Babies. During the 90's, I got into the stock-market and turned the left-over Beanie money into enough to build a sun-room and put a deck on the back of the house.
Thank God I got out in time too! LOL!
I guess what I object to about how people do business these days is that personal responsibility and accountability have gone by the wayside, so some business and people gouge.
I am no fan of unions and consider them a Neccessary Evil.
I was completly disgusted at 9-11, where CEOs of airlines, simultanoiusly laid people off, begged the Fed for yet more money
( yet some of them were going bank-rupt years before 9-11 due to corruption or mis-management) and yet many of these same CEOs got HUGE year-end bonuses.
That is just not right, and it is the sort of behavior that spawned unions in the first place.
With power and position goes responsibility and that means looking out for your workers ( within reason) and showing them the same loyalty you expect from them.
Too few business do that . I know WAY more than I ought to about GM and it's machinations. And I won't even begin with WorldCom! LOL!
I like what you write!
And Happy Anniversary to you and your lady, too!
FReegards!
Tia
Thank you. Five kids and two grandkids later (a third is being born later today and we are about ready to head to the hospital), we look back and wonder at how the time has passed.
...it has passed, as it were, a dream to us.
But despite the bumps along the way, and the times of sorrow...the dream has been a good one, a true all-American one. I am focused and committed on making sure it stays that way for my kids and grandkids.
Fregards.