by oompa 59 Replies latest jw friends
I dont think the emotion of greed can be kept in check. Maybe the action of wealth hoarding.
You're right Gene, the fallout from greed?
I really feel sorry for people that are obsessed with making money. It's like there is something wrong with their brain like an obsessive compuslive need to be richer than everyone else.
I actually heard something about this recently. Ohh I'll need to do some research. But it was as you say, some kind of disorder.
Designs,
My question was not to learn why a typical company offering profit sharing and stock ownership does so.
My question was asking whether you know why a typical company offering profit sharing and stock ownership does so.
Do you? If so, why do you think a typical company offering profit sharing and stock ownership does so.
Marvin Shilmer
Yes, the resources given show textbook reasons.
I think an entrepeneur based view of society is grossly flawed. This idea that either you are an ambitious hard working owner, or you are a drone that should be thankful for being employed by an owner. Recently at some fund raising event at some incredibly wealthy business owner's home Romney said "Democrats think nobody should live like this, I think everyone should live like this." Really? How is that supposed to work exactly? Millions upon millions of people are teachers, they are policeman, they are scientists, they are social workers, they are people that are not involved in the business world. They are neither owners nor workers for owners, they are people that render invaluable necessary services to society that are absolutely not ever going to be wealthy and it has nothing to do with their level of ambition, or intelligence, or anything of that nature. Do you really want to say the teacher making 30k a year working 60 hours a week just isn't as hard working or ambitious as the small business owner? Are you going to say that the post doctoral research assistant working at a university for scraps doing scientific research 80 hours a week that lives and breathes data and numbers just isn't enough of a go getter? How do you take care of the people that are rendering invaluable necessary services to society that aren't profit driven?
This Randian view that the only people that are really contributing to society are the entrepeneurs and anyone with real talent and intelligence and work ethic just rises to the top is incredibly narrow and ridiculous. A society and it's economic system is broken when they say to the people that keep you safe, train your children, and take care of the physically handicapped, that even though they are a vital and necessary component to society, they have to be poor and should be happy they have a job at all, but there is this small group of people that are exceedingly good at generating more money for a small group of peope by doing ethically dubious and legally grey things, and those people "deserve" a second golf course. Our sense of ethics and virtue has become entirely tied to monetary gain. That which generates profits is automatically virtuous and those that do it are the gold standard of what we should be. Maybe society should put just a little more value people that aren't generating profits, but are holding up the country on their backs?
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