[TheForge] rant concerning quality of products

[GRAF]

It is so very funny how we play with the words.
I was very consciously taught, at an early age the difference between 
wanting "To do well", to "Take care of my family and myself", by living 
a life of enlightened self interest, and greed.
I must have been two or three the first time I had the story of the 
Golden Goose told to me.

Wanting t earn a just profit = GOOD
Greed invariably = BAD.

Mike Graf

Andrew Vida wrote:
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>> Greed.
>> It hasnt helped much in the USA in the last 50 years, no matter how  
>> much Gordon Gecko said it did.
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> 	Strictly speaking, the Gecko character was almost dead-on correct, save 
> for the error of making only a half-statement.  He should have said 
> "Greed is good as long as it remains healthy and doesn't go morbid". 
> Greed has given us all the good stuff we enjoy.  Greed really is good as 
> long as it is kept on a short-ish leash.  Give it too much lead and it 
> goes all sick and nasty, which is what we have today.  We are terminally 
> ill with it unless we pull out heads out of our assholes and go back 75 
> or 100 years in attitude.  But is that even possible?  The forces at 
> work are malevolent and extremely powerful.  Try manufacturing a top 
> notch plow at a price that competes with the crap coming out of China - 
> chances are Mr. Shanghai will be eating your lunch because Mr. US Farmer 
> can buy 4 China  plows for the price of one US sample.
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> 	We are living in a Gordian knot and untying it is going to take some 
> magic and a whole lot of intestinal fortitude.  I can only wonder 
> whether we still have it.
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