Word: self-interest
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...Winners derive enormous moral solace from believing that their self-interest is the same as society's interest. The success in the intellectual climate of the 1980s of George Gilder's Wealth and Poverty and Charles Murray's Losing Ground, two books which argue that helping the poor hurts everyone, bear testimony to the power of this sentiment...
...Winners derive enormous moral solace from believing that their self-interest is the same as society's interest. The success in the intellectual climate of the 1980s of George Gilder's Wealth and Poverty and Charles Murray's Losing Ground, two books which argue that helping the poor hurts everyone, bear testimony to the power of this sentiment...
After the garbage contract is renegotiated, recycling will offer a rare opportunity to marry social consciousness to financial self-interest. And if the prospect of financial gain and the satisfaction of being environmentally sensitive do not galvanize Harvard behind a long-term committment to recycling, then the University's role as educator should...
...where are the students? They are being forced to spend their Pell grants and scholarships on expensive private health insurance. If ever there were an issue for the 1990s, an issue that combines social consciousness with a healthy dose of self-interest, it is the issue of creating a national health care system...
When it comes to productive tools, we should buy the best, regardless of origin, because it's in our long-term self-interest to do so. The best tools | make for the most competitive products. But when it comes to trinkets, we should think twice. Of course, with a lot of today's trinkets -- VCRs and camcorders, to name just two -- there's no way to buy American. The only choice is whether to buy at all, or whether, perhaps, to invest that money instead...