On Wed, 15 May 2013 09:39:05 -0400, iBoaterer
wrote:

The profit motive (call it greed if you must) is the driving force
behind all innovation, all customer service, all product excellence
and all efficient manufacturing. Without the potential for profit
(sometimes *large* profits) there are no incentives for the risks and
hard work of starting or running a business. Anything else is
socialism and we all know how that worked out in the former USSR.

Harry is bitter because success (profit) seems to have escaped him.



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****.

What is that difference and where is the threshold between profit and
greed?

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It turns out that there is a very easy answer to that question.

Companies (and people) that Harry likes are profitable.

Companies (and people) that Harry dislikes are greedy.