> Personally, I think it is obscene to profit from another person's misery.

Blasphemer! The oogie-boogie magical mystery inherent in pure capitalism is sacrosanct and thou shalt be banished and unheard henceforth for doubting. The divinity of the 'invisible hand' is always absolutley righteous. Show me suffering and I'll show you bad people with inferior morals. They've only themselves to blame in our system of merit. May the invisible hand smite them! If there's any problem, there's a person(s) to blame for the system is perfect. It's been perfect for some 300+ years and cannot be improved and will never be replaced. So get used to it. I got mine -- you get yours! Impressed by my morals yet?

It's a fallacy to believe people can do anything together. How it must be is that a tiny few may own something and collect all the steady increases in worker productivity. As long a few can attain incredible wealth, they may then tinkle it down on the useless many, and all is good. If some entity proves too difficult to extact satifactory profit from (no matter how neccesary the service among humanity), toss it on the scornful public sector heap and let the little people scrimp up some change to fund it. It's kinda hilarious to watch 'em try.

Maybe you should skim through an Ayn Rand book & tune regularly to Rush -- thse prophets will have you feeling very rugged and individual indeed. You'll have a complete edgukation and many pithy retorts to those 'socialists' and perhaps even sell a lot of Amway products.

Ok, I hope you've learned something. Thank the invisble hand for your job and if you lose it and remain pure, you'll soon receive another invisble hand job. Believe!

;-)
Steven-

P.S. Here's someting kinda neat: http://www.lcurve.org/ except this guy is immoral and wrong-headed.