Successful businessmen are, if we are lucky, just this side of criminals
My first response to this is unprintable. (Or, at the very least, only suitable for "R"-rated media.)
My second response was an unworthy throw-away joke involving the Politburo.
My third, and more reasoned, response is to argue that the statement is no more fair than the far-right blitherings on the evils of government coersion. However, I just don't have enough of my wits together today to put together a worthy argument... so I'll just note that I strongly disagree with your characterisation and think that there are suitable places in a functioning society for both government and business. (And that neither can adequately substitute for the other, at least entirely.)
-- Steve will add the following disclosures of possible bias: he works in a public-private partnership, and his father retired as an executive in a Fortune 500 firm and pursued a second career in the civil service.
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Date: 2011-05-01 03:43 pm (UTC)My first response to this is unprintable. (Or, at the very least, only suitable for "R"-rated media.)
My second response was an unworthy throw-away joke involving the Politburo.
My third, and more reasoned, response is to argue that the statement is no more fair than the far-right blitherings on the evils of government coersion. However, I just don't have enough of my wits together today to put together a worthy argument... so I'll just note that I strongly disagree with your characterisation and think that there are suitable places in a functioning society for both government and business. (And that neither can adequately substitute for the other, at least entirely.)
-- Steve will add the following disclosures of possible bias: he works in a public-private partnership, and his father retired as an executive in a Fortune 500 firm and pursued a second career in the civil service.