Paul Johnson wrote:
>> thanks david. i myself got the impression that 'the' big corporations
>> are often keeping busy themselves with legalized theft, backed up by
>> their respective governments.
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> I thought that's what the idea of a corporation is by definition...
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yep. that is exactly how it is.
Yes, it often seems that way. Of course it shouldn't be that way. Don't remember who said (probably paraphrased beyond recognition):
It isn't the goal of a company to make their customers pay them money, it's the goal of a company to make their customers *want* to give them money.
/M