more trolling for alexy Are all CEOs just crooks 200

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, alexy

The more I read about today's business "ethics" (or deterioration in it), the more evidence I see that a greater and greater proportion of most of corporate mindsets really can just be characterized as "a bunch of crooks."

Its easy for me to imagine that YOU will diminish and refuse to recognize that the whole corporate infrastructure attracts people who are much more agressive and ambitious than the average person. That the rich are much much more selfish and self-serving and consider themselves different than the rest of us.

I've been following all of the events of the last 5 years.

But as for your claim and

I'm just beginning to make a list of strong articles, well read books, newspaper articles...all of which were written by well known authors who did very careful research. And, they all point to the same conclusions.

I have seen similar

Creationists are dealing with a very different phenomenon and they are dealing with an interpretation. The corporate executive and all of the hangers-on represent a modern day incarnation of ancient and medieval kings who could make rules and laws to apply to everyone else but themselves and then make war, tax, and force tribute for their own enrichment at the expense of ANYone they chose to force it upon.

I find

It is always a tactic by a losing side in an argument to throw stones at the winning argument. Nowhere in any of our discussions now, or in the past, have you offered a single (weak or strong) reference to corporations and their executives as being "nice guys" doing something with more net benefit to society than their own self enrichment beyond the reach of anyone farther down the pecking order.

Joe Average did not have access to millions of dollars and I've seen studies (also I cited them) showing executives, MBA students, and other business types were substantially more willing to lie, cheat, and backstab anyone in the course of enriching themselves. Joe Average did not have access to tax accountants, tax dodges, lawyers, lobbyists, or other help.

Another quote below:

-- War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the mbuttes. - Major General Smedley Butler, USMC, Medal of Honor recipient