[MD] Why Profit Is Moral

[khaled Alkotob]

[Khaled previously]
>  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?

[Platt answers]
> No. "If you protect a man from folly you will soon have a nation of
fools."
> ---- William Penn

[Khaled]

Dante forgot an 8th level.