Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Money, money, money.


To many disgruntled shareholders out there, hiding anonymously behind their Chubb alarm systems, the Barclays and Glaxo fines are unjust. Capitalism didn’t get us where it has without breaking a few eggs. It is ruthless. We kill animals for meat. We legitimately obliterate massive forests, dredge the oceans and fill the atmosphere with toxins.  It is the business end of business with a lot of shirt pulling and holding going on in the box often unseen or unpunished. When push comes to shove, Capitalism and the pursuit of profit has no space on board for morality. If we let morality get in the way, we’d still be mooching about in fig leaf undies looking for berries. Except that is not what the disgruntled shareholder thinks. They are just pissed off they aren’t gonna get some more money.

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