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