Word: greed
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...Greed. Infectious greed. However unsuitable the material may be for kids, Hollywood wants their disposable income. The 10-to-12 crowd helps pay the salaries and points of pricey artistes like Spielberg and Myers. A studio pays them so highly, it needs a guarantee that the film will be available to the widest possible audiences, so a PG-13 rating is often built into the contracts. The only thing dirtier than the gags in Goldmember is the money that's made from them...
...Bows, 88, retired Andersen senior partner, on accountancy when Arthur Andersen hired him in 1935 "It looks to me like spring, when the snow melts and you see the dog shit that's been there all winter." John Malone, chairman of Liberty Media, on the scandals rocking corporate America "Greed is not an issue of business, it's an issue of human beings." Alan Greenspan, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman, on the causes of the stock market bubble
...arrived on Wall Street to declare that "there is no capitalism without conscience; there is no wealth without character," the markets had shorted his speech. The Dow dropped 179 points by the end of the day. By now people know that capitalism is a spectacle of hope and greed and guts and guile, all racing toward the bottom line. That is its genius, but without guardrails, the whole contraption can take us over a cliff. On Wednesday the Senate voted 97-0 for a program far tougher than the one the President had proposed and even the Republicans...
...That my two-year-old son's ability to assemble complex structures with his Lego doesn't qualify him as a captain of industry. • That there is poetry in small shareholders. At Vivendi's April 24 general assembly, I witnessed holders of just 10 shares screaming through greed-distorted faces: "Monsieur Messier, what we want are profiiiiits!" Profits - on 10 shares? At best these cretins would be earning a tip, but their avarice is understandable: they are just dreaming as they were taught to. • And finally, that 4 billion of the 6 billion people on this planet, whose...
...peer beyond the predictable resilience of our less attractive national attributes (apathy, selfishness and greed), and you will spot some fairly significant cultural shifts since 9/11 - changes that make you realize how different this America is from the country we lived in just 10 months...