I feel I have to say it because I am continually amazed that so many on FR fail to grasp the solution, and evidently can't perceive the obvious based on their rants and subsequent taunts and name-calling. They are bipolar. They see things as one or the other: let greed and profit and making money be the God Of All, or, if you question that, you are somehow a DUer or a liberal or a socialist or a communist or you are advocating "government intervention". I don't know how many times on these threads I have been accused of advocating government intervention in business when I have never said anything of the kind, yet FReepers insist that it is the only way, other than a so-called "free market" with "free" trade (when in fact they don't advocate that at all). I have come to the conclusion that many on FR are simply obsessed with government.
Sorry to see that you slipped in some personal insults. No need for that, really. For a while I thought we might reach some common ground and understanding. Disappointing, unfortunately.
I apologize for my impatience but I said what I meant at the moment. Just as you experience frustration with some freepers who can't see the role played by morality, instead seeing it as either government control or unfettered free enterprise, I felt the same frustration with you.
My point was what, imo, was your inability to see the difference in abuse of free enterprise and the system itself. The constant referral to greed, greedy CEO's, greedy corporations, etc., seemed to me to be a condemnation of the whole idea. I was simply saying they are separate categories, not that one was superior to or even separable from the other.
Morality is the basis for all else we do in an orderly society. Some adhere to the rules but many don't. Also, R. Buckminster Fuller said that free enterprise has the unique ability to transfer the selfish desires of the individual into a good for the whole of society. I agree with that.