From: Arlo J. Bensinger (ajb102@psu.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 12 2004 - 01:21:06 BST
All,
> > I used to make good money working for
> > an arm's manufacturer, because some people
> > value killing other people. I got to grips with
> > what I thought about this value and found another
> > job. Do conflicts like this between values and money
> > not exist in your simple world?
>
> In my "simple" world, values are it. Money is one measure of values.
>
Do I read this correctly as "So long as the company is earning a profit, it has
value". Does how the company goes about attaining this profit have influence in
this measure?
Let me reask the question in the extreme.
Did the cotton plantations of the old south have value when they turned a
profit?
By the current capitalist dialogue, and everything you have said thus far, they
maximized profit and contributed to many plantation owners "personal freedom".
It boosted the economy of the area, raised many whites out of poverty,
bolstered the foreign trade and brought work to many tangent business
operations (shipping and fabric dying). The "immorality" or "morality" of
slavery is a static social issue, is it not? So imposing arbitrary "stifling"
social layers on the "personal freedom" of "honest traders going about their
business in the marketplace" by regulating slavery should be something you are
against, correct? Just wondering...
Arlo
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