Jose wrote in news:mwHqg.60108$Lm5.38218
@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com:

Who decided that amount?

Society.

You mean, the part of society that is not greedy?

Jose

Perhaps I'm not clear on what I mean by greed. I'm talking about
excessive unrelenting greed for profit derived without regard
to the human condition.

For example, take again that feller that 'donated' 30+ billion
dollars to charity. Obviously he has no need or want for it,
or else he wouldn't be giving it away.

Just doing a quick number crunch, 30 billion dollars would give
721,154 people a $1 an hour raise for 20 years. I'd bet that
would do far more to help people - and the economy - than giving
30B in *stocks* to another rich mans 'charity' where only the
interest on those stocks would be used to do any good. And what
if the stocks tank? Then the charity tanks.

Look, I have no problem with making profit, even making lot's
of profit. What I do have a problem with is making that profit
by reducing the work force to near 'slave labor' conditions to
make that profit.

I'm sorry if my giving a **** about other peoples livelihoods
and quality of life is so offensive to you.

Brian
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