On Tue, 14 May 2013 09:45:12 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 14 May 2013 07:43:41 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:


Greed is the driving force in the economy.

Management, labor and the consumer.
Nobody is innocent.

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No one should be innocent.

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.

On 5/14/13 8:04 PM, Wayne B wrote:
On Tue, 14 May 2013 09:45:12 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 14 May 2013 07:43:41 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:


Greed is the driving force in the economy.

Management, labor and the consumer.
Nobody is innocent.

====

No one should be innocent.

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****.

In article ,
says...

On 5/14/13 8:04 PM, Wayne B wrote:
On Tue, 14 May 2013 09:45:12 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 14 May 2013 07:43:41 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:


Greed is the driving force in the economy.

Management, labor and the consumer.
Nobody is innocent.

====

No one should be innocent.

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?

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?

===

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.

In article ,
says...

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?

===

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.

Got it, thanks for the clarification!

On Tue, 14 May 2013 22:50:09 -0400, 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).

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Harry would like to think that Steve Jobs did all that work to benefit
charity and liberal causes.

On 5/15/13 4:53 AM, Wayne B wrote:
On Tue, 14 May 2013 22:50:09 -0400, 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).

=======

Harry would like to think that Steve Jobs did all that work to benefit
charity and liberal causes.



What I think, W'hine, is that you were, you are and you always shall be
an asshole.

On 5/15/2013 7:31 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 5/15/13 4:53 AM, Wayne B wrote:
On Tue, 14 May 2013 22:50:09 -0400, 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).

=======

Harry would like to think that Steve Jobs did all that work to benefit
charity and liberal causes.



What I think, W'hine, is that you were, you are and you always shall be
an asshole.

It's not hard to understand why *you* think that way. ;-)

On Wed, 15 May 2013 07:31:48 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

you are and you always shall be
an asshole.

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Harry, no one will dispute your expertise in such matters. All other
fake, wannabe assholes pale in comparison to your greatness. As a
matter of fact, I was going to nominate you as Time magazine's asshole
of the year.

They sent me back a polite form letter stating that 3,429 people had
already beaten me to the punch.

Can that many people be wrong? Not likely.

On 5/15/2013 4:53 AM, Wayne B wrote:
On Tue, 14 May 2013 22:50:09 -0400, 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).

=======

Harry would like to think that Steve Jobs did all that work to benefit
charity and liberal causes.

Stevie was probably the greediest of the aforementioned.