(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 hope I didn't imply there is no room for improvement, hell yes there is room for improvement. All I meant by "the best we can do" didn't mean stop, it simply means that humans are not monochromatic and lust for power will always exist, so the best we can do, and certainly we can do a better job keeping power in check.
Right, I agree, you shift the rules around, you can still be a dick but market it as "what everyone wants". Being a hostage due to pay gap is really no better than slavery.
