Never disciplined myself enough to seek an economics course in college and I regret it now because I’ve got no direction for my anger except in the mirror. How naive to believe, all those years, that the role of the corporation in human society is to become an essential member by providing a product or service that will be purchased and render, hopefully, that member a profit so that it can give back to the community of patrons it created some individual livelihoods, maybe even a beneficient foundation or two.
What has slapped me in the face is PG&E in Hinckley, CA and Exxon Valdez, and Enron traders commenting on the California blackouts with “Burn, baby, burn”, and currently Citibank, AIG, skating the sidewalks on Wall Street, while cracking those on Main.
Totally unrelated to the issue at hand, but why do I keep remembering that phrase: First Do No Harm…