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drocket <dro...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:05:15 GMT, rgo...@telusplanet.net (David
> Johnston) wrote:
>
> >A corporation is a group of people.  As such they can do things.
>
> I'm not sure which side you're arguring for, but...
>
> The people can do things.  The corporation itself is merely some
> scraps of paper that say it exists.  The idea that a corporation
> 'acts' is a lie that corporation owners and workers tell others to
> avoid legal responsibilities, and tell themselves to avoid feeling
> guilty about their actions.  "Oh now, I'M not paying third-world
> workers barely enough to avoid starvation, that's the corporation
> that's doing that.  Its the CORPORATION'S fault that those people are
> so underpaid that they're forced to sell their children into
> indentured servitude making shoes, not mine.  I just work there."  Its
> a fiction that helps rich people sleep at night, unburdened by the
> guilt over the fact that they're destroying people's lives so they can
> afford another vacation beach house.  Its the corporation that's doing
> those horrible things, not them.
>

"We know that - all that. It's not us, it's the bank. A bank ain't like a
man. An owner with fifty thousan acres, he's not like a man either. That's
the monster.
Sure, cried the tenant men, but it's our land. We measured it and broke it
up. We were born on it, and we were killed on it, died on it. Even if it's
no good, it's still ours. That's what make it ours - being born on it,
working it, dying on it. That makes ownership, not a paper with numbers on
it.
We're are sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't like a man.
Yes, but the bank is only made of men.
No, you're wrong there - quite wrong there. The bank is something else than
men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet
the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the
monster. Men made it but they can't control it."
                                        from "The Grapes of Wrath" - by John
Steinbeck

I wonder, though: do you Americans still read great your great American
writers?

- or, to put it in a nutshell: how does a person's right to make more money
by investing his money compare with the right of another person to make a
(reasonable) living by working (normally)?

Alfredo