We desperately need socially responsible MSM. I don't think profit per se is evil, but pursued devoid of a balancing context of justice, compassion, and genuine patriotism, it becomes evil. I think that was the Biblical notion of "the root of all evil", and the caution in many cautionary tales, from Dickens to Midas. "Greed is good" was …
We desperately need socially responsible MSM. I don't think profit per se is evil, but pursued devoid of a balancing context of justice, compassion, and genuine patriotism, it becomes evil. I think that was the Biblical notion of "the root of all evil", and the caution in many cautionary tales, from Dickens to Midas. "Greed is good" was a line from a bad guy in a movie, but Republicans vocally adopted it as a motto (though started to phase it out as a slogan, if not a guideline, during the Subprime Crash). Yet the thing that makes greed greed is gain by abusing someone else.
"Accustomed to trample on the rights of those around you, you have lost the genius of your own independence, and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises." - Lincoln
I’m too tired this evening to do your comment the justice it deserves. What you say about profit and balancing contexts is exactly what I think the role of government must be in a capitalist society. Capitalism is amoral, it just seeks profit. We as a society must impose rules - about pollution, care for the poor, education etc etc to rein in the amorality of capitalism. When we don’t, we devolve into an oligarchy and all but the few are worse off.
We desperately need socially responsible MSM. I don't think profit per se is evil, but pursued devoid of a balancing context of justice, compassion, and genuine patriotism, it becomes evil. I think that was the Biblical notion of "the root of all evil", and the caution in many cautionary tales, from Dickens to Midas. "Greed is good" was a line from a bad guy in a movie, but Republicans vocally adopted it as a motto (though started to phase it out as a slogan, if not a guideline, during the Subprime Crash). Yet the thing that makes greed greed is gain by abusing someone else.
"Accustomed to trample on the rights of those around you, you have lost the genius of your own independence, and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises." - Lincoln
I’m too tired this evening to do your comment the justice it deserves. What you say about profit and balancing contexts is exactly what I think the role of government must be in a capitalist society. Capitalism is amoral, it just seeks profit. We as a society must impose rules - about pollution, care for the poor, education etc etc to rein in the amorality of capitalism. When we don’t, we devolve into an oligarchy and all but the few are worse off.