I think you're right, I'm not really understanding you. I'm trying to connect this statement, "When you're ultimate goal is profit, whether a company fails or is successful, you're in it for the wrong reasons" with this one, "I'm all for making every stink'in dime you can possibly make." You're caveat, "but don't do it at the detriment to the community, both locally and nationally," is maddenly vague. So how do those guidelines apply in the real world? Make a profit, but never fire anyone or try to make your operations more efficient... That's why I said at the beginning of this thread that it's much easier to tell what you're against than what you're for.
If it comes off disconnected or idealistic, it's because you're applying absolutes to what I'm saying. Of course people can and will be released (fired) from companies/businesses. If it's what's required as the only alternative of mismanaged practices or an ever turbulent part of commerce not expected. Heck, it could be the employee themselves (and is quite frequently) that signs their own walking papers through ineptness or douche baggery.
You're equating all aspects of profit (motives, origins, pursuit of) as one defining single paradigm that ultimately has no other purpose than the bottom line, *whatever* that entails...as if its a sentient force unable to be anything other than what it is...and we're all along for a ride on the tail ...subject completely to it's whim.
That's the type of static rhetoric that excludes all other realities, even when you're living it and its brought us to this point...as it has before. It's just barely a 100 years and we're fighting tooth and nail to repeat our previous financial explosion...except now, it's global.
