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Old 04-13-2009, 03:46 PM   #92
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I'd like to trust you, but not after years and years of corporations abusing people solely for profit. I'll take a Civil Servant doing a competent job, albeit slowly, any day of the week. Profit is not a motivation I have any affinity with, nor truly understand.
The question is motivation+values (see Max Weber) : profit is Ok as long as (an no more than) you have an ethical drive to keep it in control; the '80s motto "greed is good" (bonfire of vanities etc.) led us directly where we are today (APR 2009, remember ) ...

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