Word: capitalistically
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Fortunately, through the miracle of money, our capitalist system can lead people to excel at things they don’t intrinsically enjoy. Organizing transportation so your peers can get to the airport is a service like any other in our economy, and it’s unclear why UC representatives should be expected to provide it on a volunteer basis. The recent rise of for-profit student businesses at Harvard—most notably Facebook, DormAid, and Unofficial Tours—demonstrates the ability of student entrepreneurs to meet service demands on campus. So, instead of asking the Council...
...fuzzy precepts of a sufficiency economy to undermine the legacy of former Prime Minister Thaksin, a billionaire who avidly pursued free-market policies, signing international trade deals and encouraging farmers to take out small-business loans. "Whether you like it or not, we have to live under a capitalist system," Thaksin told the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 15. "If you make a 180-degree about-turn in one day, confidence is destroyed...
Allan Martinson, a venture capitalist, reckons that Estonia's true innovative edge is speed. "We're fast early adopters. We're very good at getting innovation to work," he says. For example, the whole financial system leapfrogged into electronic banking in the mid-1990s, bypassing all messy dealings with checks and other paper transactions...
...dissing on conservative talk shows is predictable - the Compact is "anti-American" and "anti-capitalist" - some eco-critics have also been tough to please. Last week, compacters were attacked in their chat room as "hypocritical and smug," for boasting that they repair rather than replace their vacuum cleaners. "If you were really concerned about curtailing runaway consumerism, you'd ditch your broken vacuum cleaners for a broom," wrote one purist. But Kesel counters that she can't get cat hair off her rug with a broom. "People say we don't take it far enough," she muses...
...widely hailed for - Latin America's first real effort at free-market capitalism, which the rest of the region adopted in the 1990s - looks tarnished today. One leftist President after another has taken the oath of office this year because Latin voters are fed up with the failure of capitalist reforms to narrow the widest divide between rich and poor of any region in the world. And the reason for that failure isn't due so much to capitalism itself - it's due to the fact that capitalism, or socialism for that matter, can't work fairly in any setting...