[lbo-talk] re: biz ethics and slavery

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 13 06:05:34 PDT 2004



>From: andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
>
>Actually, this is cheap cynicism that shows a mistaken grap of the nature
>of markets and business activities. Business runs mainly on trust and
>requires an fairly robust ethical standard. If it's all a cheat and and
>sham, then any market system would collapse in very short order.

Spoken like a true corporate lawyer. Chuck is right: There are no business ethics; business is what you can get away with. The fact that distrust is so universal in business dealings explains why there is such extensive demand for lawyers like yourself. Epidemic mutual suspicion among business people is your bread and butter, counselor.

Carl


>From: Chuck Grimes
>
>---------
>
>No problem.
>
>The answer is there are no business ethics.
>
>There is no limit to, that is to say, there is no
>greatest lower bound
>on the indefinite interval of malfeasance, fraud, and
>corruption by
>and for the conduct of business except those imposed
>in the completely
>tangential formalism of the cost-benefit calculation
>of litigating
>them.
>
>What the fuck else is there to understand?
>
>Doktor Chuck
>
>^^^^^^^
>
>CB: There is the One Commandment: "Thou shall make
>money".
>
>*******************************************************
>
>And the way you do that is by hiring wage-slaves and
>paying them less than the value of the commodities
>(goods and services) they collective end up producing.
>
>"Thou shalt not steal." ????
>
>Best,
>Mike B)

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