Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "The Greatest Misinformation Campaign in History" video.

Why is anyone surprised? Milton Freidman the man who coined the term "Greed is Good" also had at the cornerstone of his ideology the following "There is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.” If you go and look up that quote you'll find a McKinsey article titled "from-there-to-here-50-years-of-thinking-on-the-social-responsibility-of-business" you'll see one of the greatest proponents of this ideology explain why its so good. If you look closely you'll also see how they have cleverly edited that quote because the full quote is actually "There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud” If you scroll down that page at McKinsey it quotes the following from Freidman "In a free-enterprise, private-property system, a corporate executive is an employee of the owners of the business. He has direct responsibility to his employers. That responsibility is to conduct the business in accordance with their desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible while conforming to their basic rules of the society, both those embodied in law and those embodied in ethical custom." So even Freidman who was a malignant narcissist recognised there were LIMITS to what the rest of society would tolerate. After all there's historical precedents like the French and Russian Revolutions where the lower class basically hit their limits and tore the aristocracies down to the ground.
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