Greed is good

[charles brown]

Wojtek wrote
>
>At 02:54 PM 6/10/98 -0700, Jordan Hayes wrote of Microsoft:
>>Piggy, indeed.  But what's the alternative?  In one of the few
>>things I ever saw Jack Kemp do well, he asked Jesse Jackson: how
>>then do you suppose we could convince those who take risks to do
>>so?
>
>
>What risk?  
>
>Methinks, you embrace a very peculiar concept of risk: when the risk is
>risky  then it is quietly underwritten by the taxpayers, but when it 
ceases
>to be risky, then it becomes a PR gimmick

Yes,isn't taking risks for suckers who the really successful capitalists 
can take advantage of ? It seems to me that real capitalists do 
everything possible to make their profits and maximum profits a sure 
thing. Risktaking is a myth like Horatio Alger. They "externalize" costs 
and risks.

Charles Brown

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