Word: self-interest
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...they suggest a "better way"? Well, they state repeatedly that they refuse to accept the premise of our economy, namely self-interest. But they don't propose any solutions. Here are a few possibilities: raise personal income taxes to 75 percent on the incomes over $100,000, double welfare benefits or tax the hell out of goods produced in un-unionized firms and countries...
...society, we deify self-interest, profit and efficiency and then act shocked when we hear that factories abuse their workers in the name of these pursuits. Greed, single-minded pursuit of profit and inhumanity enable our economy. We do our best to limit the havoc that the dictates of the profit margin so often wreaks on humanity and the environment, but in the flurry of reigning in the forces which drive our economy we forget to wonder if there isn't a better...
...majority of those who voted in the Undergraduate Council election chose Beth A. Stewart '00 on a platform of shuttle buses for student groups, cable television and universal keycard access. Their position is straightforward: narrowly focused self-interest. Thomas B. Cotton '98, a defender of student apathy, wrote in a Feb. 18 column on this page: "Despite the sanctimony of activists, most students see, or implicitly accept, apathy about political issues as a virtue." Cotton argues that we have the rest of our life to be activists, so there is little reason to fight for anything...
...fact, Paxon's decision to step down now reveals a fundamental self-interest that exists at the expense of his own home state. If time proves that this self-interest is motivated solely by a concern for family, as Paxon claims, then he deserves credit for a degree of integrity that often seemed to be lacking during his political career...
Discussion over coffee turned to the question of whose vision of America was right for today: Alexander Hamilton's--he saw a big economy guided by self-interest and a muscular national government--or Thomas Jefferson's--he championed responsibility to society and mistrusted taking too much power away from individuals and their communities. Hamilton seemed to be carrying the argument, until Harvard professor Michael Sandel happened to notice whose portrait hung on the dimly lit wall of the Blue Room and whose marble memorial cast a moonlike glow across the Ellipse. Yes, Sandel said, Hamilton's influence endures...