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Default New Pope Lambasts Greed

On 5/14/13 10:50 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 14 May 2013 21:31:20 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:



There are differences between "profit" and "greed," but apparently these
escape w'hine. And to say profit is the driving force behind "all
innovation" is just plain bull****.


Examples of greedy *******s would be Edison, Firestone, Ford, Bill
Gates and your sweetie Steve Jobs (perhaps the worst of the bunch).


That's just silly. There have been plenty of innovators whose driving
force was intellectual curiosity and advancement of knowledge.