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Re: Isn't local better than multinational?
- To: Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: Isn't local better than multinational?
- From: Evan Daniel Ravitz <evan@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:50:39 -0700 (MST)
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Ralph Shnelvar wrote:
> That's going to make the people in Cleveland _and_ the people in Boulder
> richer. The people in Cleveland get working capital and the nice local bank
> in Boulder gets to make more money for its nice local people.
>
> Now substitute "multinational bank" for "nice local bank" and nothing
> changes.
That's a non-sequitur. The multinational bank DOESN'T make more
money for Boulder, as the Boulder bank would.
> Money goes to where it is most wanted (most needed). In this way it creates
> wealth for everyone; whether it be Zimbabwe or Longmont.
Another non-sequitur. Need is not want. The greed motive puts money
where it will increase most, not where it's needed. Ask the people
of Zimbabwe; they have the most need, and getting the least.
"Greed is good" -Michael Douglas in "Wallstreet", 1987
"There is no greater disaster than greed." -Lao Tzu, 6th century BC
Both cannot be right.