History of the Progressive Tax Structure

[piece-itpete]

Neither are millions of others. I am simply pointing out that the profit motive has given us the wonders of our daily lives.

I'm not fond of government social engineering

Pete

[ebacon]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Neither are millions of others. I am simply pointing out that the profit motive has given us the wonders of our daily lives.

I'm not fond of government social engineering

Pete

And then we're both on the same page. The only difference is how many dollars does it take before ones motivations are satisfied and courtesy kicks in to leave a little for the other guys that hustling to make a buck or just starting up.

The fact of the matter is that a man will tend to engage in whatever endeavour he has a natural skill for. It might be engineering, or athletics, or art, or music, or culinary arts, or medicine, or any number of trades. Profit motive plays no part in mans tendency when it comes to love of labor. On the other hand he might neglect a labor of love if there is not enough money in it to live on.

Profit motivation theory only goes so far. After some point it is fair to say that a man's head is messed up if he needs billions of dollars and other peoples' failures to be happy.

That is not an attack on Steve Jobs. He walked away from Apple to pursue other artisic interests and then got called back to put Apple back on course. Steve seemed to love art. I don't think he was motived by the profit motive. Instead he seemed to be well compensated for inspiring beautiful work.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Neither are millions of others. I am simply pointing out that the profit motive has given us the wonders of our daily lives.

I'm not fond of government social engineering

Pete

As long as there is government there is social engineering the alternative ia anarchy. Who the beneficiaries of such engineering are varies by party.