At 06:53 PM Monday 8/10/2009, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
On Aug 10, 2009, at 5:57 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
No, the problem with _them_ is that they are _all too_
"competent" (at getting money for themselves). Any number of people
have said (and editorial cartoonists have drawn cartoons
illustrating) during the past (roughly) year that a/the problem is
that Wall Street and others are too _greedy_.
I'd go somewhat farther and say that the Wall Street culture
institutionalizes and rationalizes greed as a virtue, if not a
sacrament. ("Greed is good. Greed works.")
Which doesn't make it any more RIGHT than it
was 20-odd years ago when that movie came out . . .
The market does what it's designed to do quite well, and very
efficiently. The problem is in the philosophy behind the design and
the assumptions it makes about what's important and what has value ..
You certainly recall what happens when you assume . . . ;)
"It is the mark of a higher culture to value the little unpretentious
truths which have been discovered by means of rigorous method more
highly than the errors handed down by metaphysical and artistic ages
and men, which blind us and make us happy." -- Nietszche
"This planet has - or rather had - a problem,
which was this: most of the people living on it
were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many
solutions were suggested for this problem, but
most of these were largely concerned with the
movements of small green pieces of paper, which
is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small
green pieces of paper that were unhappy."
~ Douglas Adams
. . . ronn! :)
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