21st Century Fox Posted 3 July 2012 Posted 3 July 2012 CEOs of community-based businesses are typically responsive to their communities and decent people. But the CEOs of most of the world's largest corporations daily make decisions that destroy the lives of many other human beings. Only about 1 to 3 percent of us are sociopaths -- people who don't have normal human feelings and can easily go to sleep at night after having done horrific things. And of that 1 percent of sociopaths, there's probably only a fraction of a percent with a college education. And of that tiny fraction, there's an even tinier fraction that understands how business works, particularly within any specific industry. Thus there is such a shortage of people who can run modern monopolistic, destructive corporations that stockholders have to pay millions to get them to work. And being sociopaths, they gladly take the money without any thought to its social consequences. Today's modern transnational corporate CEOs -- who live in a private-jet-and-limousine world entirely apart from the rest of us -- are remnants from the times of kings, queens, and lords. They reflect the dysfunctional cultural (and Calvinist/Darwinian) belief that wealth is proof of goodness, and that that goodness then justifies taking more of the wealth.
21st Century Fox Posted 3 July 2012 Posted 3 July 2012 Where's that from? Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture, Thom Hartmann
Daggers Posted 3 July 2012 Posted 3 July 2012 How do I know you're not lying to me? The fact that she hasn't told you about me shows that she can be trusted not to be trusted and that FIF can not be trusted to say who can be trusted.
Daggers Posted 3 July 2012 Posted 3 July 2012 People who break the law should be punished but don't tar everyone else with the same brush. Unless they are poor, socialists, unemployed, foreign, etc...
Webbo Posted 3 July 2012 Posted 3 July 2012 Unless they are poor, socialists, unemployed, foreign, etc... I'd certainly never do that.
Guest Posted 3 July 2012 Posted 3 July 2012 The fact that she hasn't told you about me shows that she can be trusted not to be trusted and that FIF can not be trusted to say who can be trusted. I resemble that remark
Daggers Posted 3 July 2012 Posted 3 July 2012 I want to just punt it out there that I am the very last person anyone should consider trusting. I have no moral code.
Guest Posted 3 July 2012 Posted 3 July 2012 Just been reading through a few transfer threads and the number of people who finish with I trust Nigel is astounding. Do people even understand the concept?
davieG Posted 3 July 2012 Author Posted 3 July 2012 Just been reading through a few transfer threads and the number of people who finish with I trust Nigel is astounding. Do people even understand the concept? Perhaps they're just dropping their Hs and mean to say "Thrust"
davieG Posted 6 July 2012 Author Posted 6 July 2012 BBC Housing Executive land deals cost public purse millions Details have emerged about misconduct and potential fraud in the sale of public Housing Executive land to private developers. The Northern Ireland Auditor General said evidence showed deals were done without proper valuations or approval. He has compiled a report based on the annual accounts of the Executive, Northern Ireland's housing authority. The public purse has lost millions of pounds because there were no valuations done, or there was "favouritism". A "significant proportion" of 27 sales - netting £84m - involved sites not advertised publicly to attract bidding. Instead they went "to preferred buyers." Violation The Auditor General reviewed the Executive's own internal investigations into sales during a six year period up to 2010. A range of issues was detected in violation of the Executive's statutory duty to obtain the best value for the sites. Sales were also carried out "without the proper approval" of the Executive's board or the Department of Social Development. Under rules, the board must sign off on deals of over £100,000, but instead sales up to the value of £8m were being authorised at senior staff level. Three cases were referred to the PSNI some time ago, while 11 more are still under consideration. The Auditor General also found fraud and error in housing benefit payments amounting to £10m. The Executive, in a statement, said it took the issues seriously. "We accept there have been problems and have been working to address these and will continue to do so."
Rincewind Posted 6 July 2012 Posted 6 July 2012 Is a golden handshake punishment enough though for those responsible?
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