On the business of life

[drwex]

I'm mostly dumping this here so I can reference it later, but commentary is welcome. This came out of a discussion of the relationship of WiiTID to the profitability of the enterprises that employ people like me:

Profit is like health, to a corporation. You have to have it, and more is good. But it's not the reason for existence.

Comments

[gentlescholar.livejournal.com]

Actually, it is part of the legal definition of a corporation that it is NOT ALLOWED to have any other goal but making money.

See The Corporation, the documentary, for details, or ask a lawyer.

[drwex]

See my comment to feste_sylvain above. You're describing an ideal that turns out not to exist in the real world for very good reasons.