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...McDonald's success story is not that every little poor boy can become chairman of the board with enough sweat and strain. The many skeletons in the McDonald's refrigerators disprove this. It was not the invisible hand of the free market but the iron-gloved fist of corporate greed which flipped the burgers that made McDonald...
While the assumptions underlying Gay's 1728 ballad-opera--that human nature is universally corrupt, that greed, vice and pettiness are not limited to any one social class--are as valid as ever, much of the play's humor derives from specific references to 18th century mores that are necessarily dated. To be sure, high class ladies still affect airs and politicians are still crooks, but we no longer comprehend Gay's jabs at Walpole and his ministers, nor do we have as much patience with the constant appellation of every woman as "hussy" or "slut". Not, for that matter...
...early 50s were dominated by a style called film noir, as the optimistic excitement of wartime Hollywood gave way to a bleak mood of disillusionment and introspection. Directors turned away from the mythology of the American Dream to examine the darker sides of the American psyche: corruption, jealousy, greed, obsessive hate, and murder became crucial themes. Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity, showing in the Orson Welles's film noir festival is in many ways a perfect example of the genre. Written by Raymond Chandler, it stars Barbara Stanwyck as the sexy but neglected housewife who seduces an insurance salesman into...
...raised under the impression that capitalism was a system of the people, by the people and for the people. The greed and graft demonstrated by Lockheed and other corporate giants has led me to believe that they have one overriding ambition: to take from the people and from the people and from the people...
...legislating or planning outcomes in defiance of the actual world: "Nondiscrimination became equal opportunity became affirmative action became goals became quotas became equality of outcomes." He does not say at which link he would have interrupted the chain. Mayer does argue that government's tasks are to "harness greed," to lay a deft hand on the economic system but never so heavily as to interfere with the basic logic of the marketplace. As for politics, Mayer says irritably, "I could not care less whether the government calls itself conservative or liberal or radical, Democratic, Republican, American, Socialist, Worker...