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MrJoshua
MrJoshua SuperDork
3/26/09 8:48 p.m.
ignorant wrote:
DustoffDave wrote: +1 for Salanis Although I do agree with this:
MrJoshua said: Humans are not inherently good. There is always someone somewhere willing to sell their grandmother to get ahead. If the price is right, we are all willing to ignore the plight of poor grandma to save a buck.
But I also believe that there are good people in the world who start good companies and make a lot of money without abusing their workers, I know he sent it all to charity, but look at "Newman's Own" -- extremely successful.
I would call newmans own a niche success, are they the next GE?

Or more related to the grandma quote-Wal-Mart.

carguy123
carguy123 Dork
3/26/09 9:22 p.m.

Boy I sure wish I could post a video here. I have a very cool video of Milton Freidman talking about Greed.

ignorant
ignorant SuperDork
3/26/09 9:28 p.m.
carguy123 wrote: Boy I sure wish I could post a video here. I have a very cool video of Milton Freidman talking about Greed.

you mean this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A

counterpoint: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19857

SupraWes
SupraWes Dork
3/26/09 9:28 p.m.
carguy123 wrote: Boy I sure wish I could post a video here. I have a very cool video of Milton Freidman talking about Greed.

This one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A

ignorant
ignorant SuperDork
3/26/09 9:29 p.m.

double counterpoint.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/04/opinion/greed-is-bad.html

ignorant
ignorant SuperDork
3/26/09 9:29 p.m.
SupraWes wrote:
carguy123 wrote: Boy I sure wish I could post a video here. I have a very cool video of Milton Freidman talking about Greed.
This one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A

beat you by a minute.

Wally
Wally GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
3/27/09 9:32 a.m.

I couldn't love GRM the magazine or the website more, and believe me, I don't like to be the P.C police or anything or the guy who has a problem with everything thing, but I do have a problem with this...

I find it a bit offensive that you use terms like "socialist", "communist" etc etc... for your little descriptions or whatever for the President. I myself am not a socialist, nor am I a communist or marxist, but I feel sensitivity for Presidents as I was once president of the my chapter of the DJ Jazzy Jeff Fan Club.

These terms although I'm pretty sure are not even real words, are obviously meant to resemble the words used to describe people with leftist liberal agendas, and it appears that they are used on these boards in a joking sense which, as I view it, makes light of people who are draging this country to a stalinist dictatorship, or trying to make sure eveyone has a job depending on who has a prettier pie chart on a given day.

It just dosen't seem right to me, thats all. I know that it's not my message board, and that noone forces me to post here, but all the same, some things are wrong when they really don't need to be.

carguy123
carguy123 Dork
3/27/09 12:26 p.m.
SupraWes wrote:
carguy123 wrote: Boy I sure wish I could post a video here. I have a very cool video of Milton Freidman talking about Greed.
This one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A

Dat's da one!

DustoffDave
DustoffDave New Reader
3/27/09 12:52 p.m.
ignorant said: I would call newmans own a niche success, are they the next GE?

Well, GE didn't start out as a multi-national conglomerate. Even the biggest companies started out as a simple idea...

HiTempguy
HiTempguy Reader
3/27/09 12:52 p.m.
Wally wrote: I couldn't love GRM the magazine or the website more, and believe me...

Didn't want to quote the whole thing.

But I see what you did there. ;)

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