Gilder on trust

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>[as far as I know this is not a hoax - where's Herman Melville when you 
>really need him?]
>
><http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2002/1223/234_print.html>
>
>Forbes - 85th Anniversary issue - December 23, 2002
>
>The Confidence Game
>
>Why I trust the most disgraced chief executive more than I do the most
>reputable public servant.
>
>George Gilder
>
>... chief executives know that their success is dependent on grasping a 
>reality that they can never comprehend in its fullness themselves. In order 
>to win they must trust others and collaborate with them. Their success 
>depends on the successes of others; their own enrichment relies upon the 
>enrichment of their customers and collaborators; their own profits stem 
>from the dignity of voluntary personal choices, rather than coercive 
>appropriations. Their entire enterprise is ultimately founded on trust. 
>That is ultimately why I trust them. They trust me.

Ah, the never-ending hijinks aboard the good ship Fidèle.  The 
Confidence-Man's masquerade continues!

Carl

Alas for man, he hath small sense
Of genial trust and confidence

                - Herman Melville

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