(February 5, 2016 at 4:02 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I doubt that's the best we can do. People save peoples lives without payment with fair regularity. The argument has always been that profit motivates....and that's fine, I suppose..but when profit is only motivating the pursuit of further profit, rather than the delivery of life saving services or products... or even innovation....it's lost it's justification.
And remember, the context of failure in life, for these businesses..is that people die. The purpose of a for profit hospital or medication, despite all of the bullshit they put in the pamplets, is not to save life, it's to generate money. So people die even when these businesses succeed.
Now, we have laws against people profiting by buying and selling people, but apparently so long as you merely hold their life hostage rather than outright declare ownership of it, that's a-okay.
I agree, but that isn't just about health care, our planet depends on reducing pollution by getting off fossil fuels, it depends on more food sources and better pay and education for women and workers WORLDWIDE.
Unfortunately whatever good uses the stock market started out as, it simply has become a global Ponzy scheme. It is simply the rich shuffling money around. They have gone from a priority of innovation and improving the human condition to thinking money is literally something you plant like a seed. The rich are the ones that literally think money grows on trees.
Now again, that is not all wealth, just that the CLIMATE has produced just enough bad apples to cause otherwise what would be sensible business practices to become a chase for profit. It simply cannot just be profit for profits sake.
