[MD] Why Profit Is Moral

[Platt Holden]

> Khaled:
> Before i go any further let me get your answer to a couple of questions.
> 
> A guy calls the financial talk show on the radio and explains how his
> mother, till recently ( 2003-2004) was still leasing her telephone from
> the phone company. Remember, until ma bell was broken up, you couldn't go
> buy an off the shelf phone. The guy had figured that his mom had paid
> nearly $4,000 for her phone. yes the phone company did send letters out
> in the early 80s informing people of their options to return the phones
> or go down to their local electronic store and buy a phone out right. The
> sad part is that when he called the phone company to cancel the lease,
> the operator tried to talk him out of it.
> 
> Legally the phone company had done no wrong. But after 20 years of
> renting a phone, wouldn't you think that the phone company should have
> canceled such programs. And just let those who still had a ma bell phone
> ( especially the elderly) just have those phones. Do you see something
> wrong with that picture?

No. "If you protect a man from folly you will soon have a nation of fools."
---- William Penn

Platt