Quote Originally Posted by Traitorfish
Not true. People may often think that the best way to make a profit is to cut expenses, leading to exploitation and low-quality service.
...then people won't take the service? Perhaps since we have been reared to just "accept" poor service, we see this as possible. But quite frankly you're complaining about people accepting bad service. If the people are willing to accept poor service, then they deserve what they get.
Whats more, I don't wantpeople to be 'the best damned industrialist'. Industry should be run for the benefit of all, not to aim at some bizzarre goal of superiority.
It's not a goal of superiority. It's a goal of achieving your personal best. I, personally, do want to be the best damned anything I can be, and I won't let the masses get in my way.
Besides, the fraud laws may exist, but that doesn't change the fact that 1) Fraud takes place 2) Much fraud goes under discovered, at least until the refects are partly or wholly irreversible 3) Morons like Bush pardon some of the worst fraudsters (I am not connecting you to Bush, although you may support them, I'm just saying that the current system is screwed up) 4) Some of these crimes cost many, many lives, and are punished by what are essentially slaps on the wrist. Why would a huge, multi-national corporation that is worth billions crae if you fined then a few hundred thousand dollars?
What you are complaining about I agree with in many instances; however, your solutions and mine are different. I say that that is a problem with the idiots advocating it, and that we need a society that rewards progress and innovation (laissez-faire capitalism with a government geared towards the protection of individual rights). You say that the people have to be coddled because things don't work out all the time.