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On 2014-02-21 10:28 AM, Gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 09:03:47 -0500 |
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> Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>> On 2014-02-21 8:54 AM, Daniel Campbell <lists@××××××××.us> wrote: |
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>>> If you think all profit is the same, then we are talking on two |
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>>> different wavelengths. |
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>> I didn't say that. I said that *everyone* operates under the profit |
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>> motive. |
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> And that is simply not true. |
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Yes, it is, but you may be confused about the meaning of 'profit'. |
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Even someone who volunteers in the local soup kitchen feeding the |
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homeless is doing so under the profit motive. The things is, the |
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'profit' involved (may) only involve(s) a 'warm fuzzy good feeling'. |
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If you read my previous words, I said it wasn't always (though I think |
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it is usually) some kind of 'financial' profit. |
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