[MD] Altruism: Play The Greed

[Mike Craghead]

Hi Craig

"There already is a way. It's called "planned obsolesence". The trick is 
figuring out a way to make IMPROVEMENT profitable. That's what the free 
market is supposed to do. Buyers should tend to buy the best (economic) 
value, providing it doesn't violate their other values (e.g., wasn't 
made in a sweat shop, didn't despoil the environment, etc.)-Craig"

Right. My point is similar, but the person doing the "figuring" in 
"figure out ways to make change profitable" is the individual, not the 
business. Since the free market doesn't go out of it's way to evolve 
toward morality, it's up to the individual to do it. Buying wisely is 
all well and good, but so is infiltrating the heartless capitalist 
machine and working on it from the "inside," teaching it to recycle and 
buy local and stop eating veal.

Mike Craghead
humboldtmusic.com


craigerb at comcast.net wrote:
 > Mike,
 > Nice lyrics.
 >
 > [Mike]
 >   
 >> Why not figure out ways to make change profitable?
 >>     
 >
 > There already is a way.  It's called "planned obsolesence".
 > The trick is figuring out a way to make IMPROVEMENT profitable.  
That's what the free market is supposed to do.  Buyers should tend to 
buy the best (economic) value, providing it doesn't violate their other 
values (e.g., wasn't made in a sweat shop, didn't despoil the 
environment, etc.)
 > Craig