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   Linguist said, 3 months ago

   Ah, executive greed almost reared it’s ugly head !
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   masterskrain said, 3 months ago

   So, President King has finally sold out!
   A “Whopping Pittance”. Another great oxymoron to add to the list, along with “Jumbo Shrimp”, “Planned Accident”, “Honest Politician”, and “Military Intelligence”!
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   Bruno Zeigerts said, 3 months ago

   @masterskrain

   And civil servant, postal service…
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   John Pike said, 3 months ago

   Since greed has been the dominant topic this week, I thought I might share this from a post on FaceBook.
   

   
   Only when the last tree is cut, only when the last river is polluted, only when the last fish is caught, will they realize that you can’t eat money. –Native American proverb
   

   
   I was moved by this. Such a simple, yet, powerful thought.
   

   
   BCNU
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   c.davies said, 3 months ago

   A Whopping Pittance… Like Government and the banks… Sigh…
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   CasualObserver said, 3 months ago

   @John Pike

   Thank you…I had never seen that. It is Capitalism in a nutshell. And it is bi-partisan.
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   Q4horse said, 3 months ago

   There will be no education if nobody gets paid. No profit, no gain. Profit is the driver of innovation.
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   bagbalm said, 3 months ago

   Better hurry – the student loan racket is in a bubble, defaults climbing, and may come apart soon.
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   Astolat said, 3 months ago

   Remind me, how is Zipper currently getting his fees and living costs met? Is this the beginning of an arc that sees him having to go out and actually earn a living…?!
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    Larry said, 3 months ago

    @masterskrain

    I resent that part of military intelligence. Under hashish, I used to come up with some very intelligent intelligence
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    Doughfoot said, 3 months ago

    @Q4horse

    True, but it is simple-minded to think that the profit motive untempered with ethics produces only good. The profit motive inspires most crime. Even when the laws are obeyed, competition drives down wages, and encourages the cutting of corners. Many an employer would love to pay his people better, but has to compete with people who don’t. Resources are destroyed. A book dealer here destroys rare illustrated books centuries old: he could sell them at a profit, but there is even more money in selling them one page at a time at a time to unwitting people who want to frame the illustrations and maps for their walls. Land is purchased, “resources” are “extracted” and the land is ruined for other uses for generations to come, and the surrounding region is effected too. But unless the law requires otherwise the profit-motive ignores ideas of stewardship. History has demonstrated this over and over. The profit-motive drives a company to push for “innovative” legislation that favors it, no matter what the effect on others. It is not that businessmen are evil, or even unethical, they behave the way the competition and need for profit dictates, and if they don’t they don’t keep their jobs. Unless the public and public institutions prevent it.
    
    The profit motive is good, competition is good, and “free” markets are good. But without laws, and law enforcement (i.e. rules and regulation), bad practices drive out good, and all are driven to the lowest common denominator.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago

    The “pittance” part of his remark is an attempted save since the officials there will get whopping increases. To the detriment of the school.
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    neatslob said, 3 months ago

    @Q4horse

    It used to be that the majority of business owners wanted to make a comfortable living while contributing something useful to society. Now they just want to get rich and they don’t care if they do anything useful or not.
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    Adrian Snare said, 3 months ago

    @masterskrain

    And with a “better people”, I hold that a honest politician is possible, and the same with military intelligence….
    And imagine society without greed….Neither liberal nor conservative can produce such a wonderful scenario…think of oit…NO prevaricating, avarice, hatred,sloth, intolerance, bigotry, and we are approaching this, one step at a time.
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    Adrian Snare said, 3 months ago

    @Q4horse

    This may be, particularly today…Tomorrow, love will liven and cause innovation.
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