lautenk2 wrote:
Also, if it weren't for profits, most people on this forum would never have earned enough money to own a camera. Curious how nobody complains about unfair profits and then proceeds to start a non-profit corporation to develop a vaccine, out of the goodness of their heart of course. I guess profits are only filthy when they're earned by people you don't know, and scientists and engineers should all be forced to work for free, or something. I used to be a liberal.
As I am a UK member, I try to stay out of the topics that turn political - however, there are profits and then there are profits. Reasonable profits are healthy, but the profits made by the likes of Apple and Microsoft and
Adobe and Big Pharma are not reasonable - neither are the salaries paid to their executives. Don't be fooled into thinking that Big Pharma need big profits for research. Big profits are the botton line after R&D. One way to hide profits is just to pay bigger and bigger executive salaries in the millions of $s.