Wonky Pundit
USMB's Silent Snowden
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I agree: What I said was that it can't be completely self-serving. Customers do not part with their money for nothing.Sorry, but I don't see the correlation. To me running or working for a business is usually self serving which is different from 'making the world a better place'.
(However, paraphrased from Adam Smith, looking to one's own interests in a free market economy, usually results in the world being a better place.)
It can't be completely self-serving. Customers don't give you money because they like you; they do it because of what you do for them.
But to the original point, I'd say that 100 people working together under a plan to improve the world (assuming the plan makes sense) is much more effective than 100 individuals doing whatever each chose to be best, and perhaps working at cross-purposes. In other words, the leftists (as you're describing them) have a major advantage here.
News Flash: giving money for services or products rendered IS self serving. Hiring people to do a job you need done is self serving. Working for somebody to do a job they need to be done is self serving.
In the words of Adam Smith: "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."
Nobility has nothing to do with it. I was talking about effectiveness.And I don't know that 100 (leftist) people working to improve the world are doing one damn thing more noble than are 100 (conservative) people going to work, raising their kids to be responsible productive citizens, putting in their time at the local church or charity or whatever, buying, selling, and just going about their daily lives without intruding on the lives of others.
I would be, if that were indeed what they were working for. However, as far as I can tell, all they're doing is ranting and screaming.Tell me, when a thousand people show up at a Tea Party rally for the purpose of working for a better government/country/world, are you appreciative? Or contemptuous?