So I just want to get peoples' opinion on a metaphor for the way businesses focus on the bottom line of their prophets without caring about coruption and the human cost of their operations (ie sweatshops, blood diamonds etc.). The big thing among people opposed to this is comparing corporations to sociopaths and while this is 100% accurate, it's not appealing to the common man and sounds "radical".
So here's my alternative:
As I mentioned in a previous thread (long ago), I have protanopia, a form of red/green colorblindness, in my left eye (it's unilateral protanopia so my right eye sees colors normally and is dominant unless i close it). When I close my right eye and look at the red shade of blood, it actually appears gold.
Therefore, I propose calling these ignorant/destructive business practices/investments in those businesses "Protanopic Economics" cause where blood flows red all you see is gold.
what do you think?
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I'm a progressive democrat at best, mutualist at worst. Socialism doesn't work, but neither does making one country wealthy and free at the expense of the blood and enslavement of several others.
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Protanopic Economics...
Ken Lay, protanopic capitalist...
...I like it.
Write a letter to a newspaper, see if it can get published. This way the term can be seen by many, many more people.
Protanopic Capitalism is the best game in town (thus far), but it's still far from being Benevolent Capitalism, which I think is what most people would like the system to truly be.
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trust me, it isn't messed up when I hit the bullseye with a bow and arrow 95% of the time. One of the evolutionary benefits of protanopia is a target accuracy 80% higher than the average person. I found that out after I switched to a left handed bow and was able to steady my arms more.
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i see normally with my right. My left has a form of red green color blindness called protanopia. I see reds as pale greens, golds, and reddish browns and greens as golds.
I couldn't be a sniper cause you have t have perfect color vision to be in any armed services or intelligence agency other than in the capacity of a medic.
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Last edited by Darth Jello on Jan 30th, 2006 at 11:02 PM
here's my left eye's spectrum. now get back on topic
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profit at the expense of countries, lives, and at times, the companies' own customers.
examples-DeBeers (blood diamonds), Nike (sweatshops, trading with enemies-Myanmar, sudan), Shell Oil (financial support of genocide, slavery), Wal-Mart (sweatshops, unfair business practices, union busting, trading with enemies-myanmar, sudan, syria), Enron (conspiracy to fabricate a power crisis, accounting fraud), Adelphia (accounting fraud), Tyco (accounting fraud), Halliburton (accounting fraud, war profiteering, bribery, trading with enemies-North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya), Cattle King (serving contaminated meat to school children), Monsanto (selling unsafe genetically modified food products, selling food contaminated with mercury, lead, sulfates and arsenic), etc.
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