On 3/5/08, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Paul Johnson wrote:
> >>  thanks david. i myself got the impression that 'the' big corporations
> >>  are often keeping busy themselves with legalized theft, backed up by
> >>  their respective governments.
> >>
> >
> > I thought that's what the idea of a corporation is by definition...
> >
> >
>
> yep. that is exactly how it is.

Yes, it often seems that way.  Of course it shouldn't be that way.  Don't
remember who said (probably paraphrased beyond recognition):

It isn't the goal of a company to make their customers pay them money, it's
the goal of a company to make their customers *want* to give them money.

/M

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