Matthew 6:24: "No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."
Or as another holy book would have it: "And what will explain to you what the steep path is? It is the freeing of a (slave) from bondage; or the giving of food in a day of famine to an orphan relative, or to a needy in distress. Then will he be of those who believe, enjoin fortitude and encourage kindness and compassion." (Qur'an, Sura 90, 'The City'.)
(And my background in a religions and theology minor is leaking. :P)
Profit is a deeply flawed yardstick by which to measure the institutions which are necessary for civil society to function. Hospitals. Schools. Libraries. Universities. Technical colleges. Capital - money - should exist to serve people, not the other way around.
(Corporations are made to serve man, and never to rule over him... and I shouldn't misappropriate videogame religions in service of making my point.)
The problem is, to get space in public debate you nearly always have to have wealth and backing yourself. You can preach all you want, but unless you (I, you, anyone speaking against the all-consuming lure of the Invisible Hand) have access to an audience, you're still speaking to a choir of one. Maybe two or three, if you have friends who'll listen to you talk politics.
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Date: 2011-07-01 12:06 am (UTC)Or as another holy book would have it: "And what will explain to you what the steep path is? It is the freeing of a (slave) from bondage; or the giving of food in a day of famine to an orphan relative, or to a needy in distress. Then will he be of those who believe, enjoin fortitude and encourage kindness and compassion." (Qur'an, Sura 90, 'The City'.)
(And my background in a religions and theology minor is leaking. :P)
Profit is a deeply flawed yardstick by which to measure the institutions which are necessary for civil society to function. Hospitals. Schools. Libraries. Universities. Technical colleges. Capital - money - should exist to serve people, not the other way around.
(Corporations are made to serve man, and never to rule over him... and I shouldn't misappropriate videogame religions in service of making my point.)
The problem is, to get space in public debate you nearly always have to have wealth and backing yourself. You can preach all you want, but unless you (I, you, anyone speaking against the all-consuming lure of the Invisible Hand) have access to an audience, you're still speaking to a choir of one. Maybe two or three, if you have friends who'll listen to you talk politics.
Or ethics.