Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site anasazi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!hao!noao!terak!anasazi!john From: john@anasazi.UUCP (John Moore) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: $1288 ashtrays Message-ID: <269@anasazi.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 10:38:30 EDT Article-I.D.: anasazi.269 Posted: Wed Aug 21 10:38:30 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 03:02:24 EDT References: <532@wjvax.UUCP> <730@vortex.UUCP> <257@anasazi.UUCP> <346@aero.ARPA> Reply-To: john@anasazi.UUCP (John Moore) Organization: Anasazi, Phoenix Az. Lines: 25 In article <346@aero.ARPA> foy@aero.UUCP (Richard Foy (Veh. Systems)) writes: >In article <257@anasazi.UUCP> john@anasazi.UUCP (John Moore) writes: >>>--Lauren-- >> Welcome to capitalism! It still works better than the alternative! The >>military's insistence on squeezing profit everywhere they can, and auditing >>everyone to death on trivia, leads to a desire by suppliers to make their profit >>where they can. The fact that the dollar outweighs ethics in some people >>is just human nature - the ruble outweighs ethics in USSR, also. >> >> John Moore (Compuserve VETS SIG "LCB" Member) >> >Are the only two alternatives unethical capitalism or even worse USSR rubles? > >richard That the dollar outweighs ethics in some people doesn't imply that it outweighs ethics in all people. A few unethical capitalists doesn't imply that there is a system of "unethical capitalism". Let me throw the question back on you: What alternatives are there? -- John Moore (NJ7E) {decvax|ihnp4|hao}!noao!terak!anasazi!john (602) 952-8205 (day or evening)