Hug a Businessman!

by Judi

Thu, Oct 11, 2001 9:15AM

Hug a Businessman - Starve a Bureaucrat!

Businessmen Rule! We have jobs because of them. We have so much because of them. Sears started out as a common street vendor, so did Wards and Marshal Fields. A woman entrepreneur made the windshield wipe and another the dishwasher! Our lives are better because of these creative businesspeople! STARVE A FEEDING BUREAUCRAT instead - stupid! Without the free market, we would live in huts! If you want to live in a hut, go ahead, we won't stop you, like you want to stop us from enjoying progress!

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by ventrella

Thu, Oct 11, 2001 12:40PM

'Judi',
That's not so well thought out. It's pretty rare that businessmen are the 'creative' mindpower behind new technologies. The job of business people is to arrange buying and selling of good and services, acquisition of capital for new ventures, and keeping the cost of labor low so that profits can be made off the top and distributed to people who had enough money to purchase stock. It's the Horatio Alger myth that teaches that it is the businesspeople who either provide the brainpower for new inventions, or do the work involved in making these goods and services. Really, regular working people have come up with 99% of all progressive innovations. Businessmen are much more replaceable than workers, anyway. Look at the competition that goes on to get into universities like Stanford and UCBerkeley, which produce the credentialed MBAs. Remove any one of them from the picture, and there are many competing to take its place because it is a privilege to take such a position, rather than some sort of position volunteering for the sake of humanity.

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§sigh

by Che415

Fri, Oct 12, 2001 12:37PM

Too much Ayn Rand for you. You're cut off, dear.

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