Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Apr 18, 2004, at 11:38 AM, allan yates wrote: > Apparently in the minds of these people, financial success = evil. Corporations profiting at the expense of local small businesses, exploiting their employees and suppliers as far as they can? Evil's a bit strong, but I'm certainly opposed > The world business haters are at their core socialists, masquerading > as "compassionate liberals" and "progressives." The success of > Starbucks proves once again that the free enterprise system works, and > that America works. It doesn't work for the local coffeeshops who can't compete with the Starbucks onslaught, does it? > It also proves that socialism is a failure for everyone except > aspiring autocrats who are greedy for power and those who are > "entitled" to the fruits of everyone else's labor while they do > nothing of value. Gosh, where were you when I had to go in for advising at university - I could have saved myself a lot of trouble by just majoring in autocracy. If only I had known.