get me as much of that juice as you can
jeffrey k skilling sez: "get me as much of that juice as you can"around a giant bearhug as they defrauded investors and wall street. I get a warm feeling when I hear enron executives getting all lovey-dovey in the boardroom as they bled their investors and employees dry. A business culture that rewards carnivores won't quit when the chips are down and it's every man for himself in the courtroom. ( a paraphrase from the whistleblower who exposed the shiesty accounting "practices" of enron and fastow).
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Welcome back, Mr. Tunk. Those Enron guys sure are funny. An economy with no government regulation where corporations are free to do as they please is kinda scary, but an economy where there is no private property and the state (the people?) makes all the economic decisions is terribly inefficient and poses different problems.
When you sit down and try to choose a good economic system, you have to decide what your goals are. Do you want the highest possible standard of living for the greatest number of people? Do you want everyone to have the same standard of living (eliminate poverty and eliminate extreme wealth)? How important is the freedom to choose your own destiny? Is the freedom to choose your own destiny even possible in any economic system?
First of all, no mister. Straight tunk with no capitalization 'cause
thats for the fascist bourgeoise. Just kidding. Second of all, imagine me writing this response while eating corn out of a tin can 'cause I am; and drinking a budweiser (power to the proletariat) 'cause i am.
Unfortunately, and believe me when I say this, I know sitting down and
choosing an economy doesn't work except in civilisation 3, a computer
game. It's a push and pull of numerous factors including, but hardly limited to, the will of the people.
What I do truly belive in and believe is possible in our government is a system where business can operate as it wants to a certain point. Once it crosses a certain line, be it moral or ethical, real or imagined,
it is (or should be) held accountable. These Zaibatsu's with unlimited resources, more rights than any man, and unlimited lifespans should have some checks and balances. Since when does a corporation (in truth, a mere figment of men's desires) have more rights than a man?
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