From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2009-04-11T09:01:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Goodbye Ruby - Hello Earth

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On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 09:25:08PM +0900, Phlip wrote:
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> Our worst general global problem is lobbyists and corruption, and the=20
> second worst is the oil companies.

I wouldn't say the oil companies, specifically, are second worst.  I'd
say that the aberration of market economics, created by government
interference in free exchange of value, known as a "public corporation"
is really the problem.  Oil companies are just financially and
politically powerful examples of that problem.

On that subject, corporate responsibility:

  http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=3D444

The concept of a corporation, created out of nothing by acts of law with
no direct relation to concepts of individual property rights, is
inherently contradictory to the ideas of ethical business practice and
individual rights in general.

Oil companies, as visible examples of corporations that behave
unethically, are just favorite whipping-boys.  Don't let the fact these
gigantic corporations deal in oil distract you from the real problem,
which has nothing to do with their actual stock in trade.

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Quoth Edward Murphy, Jr. (Murphy's Law): "If there's more than one way
to do a job and one of those ways will end in disaster, then someone
will do it that way."

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