The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits
–Milton Friedman

The idea that maximizing shareholder value is eroding the economy and favouring a gross short-sightedness.

From How Shareholders Are Hurting America.

At the end of Biosphere 2 the ants destroyed the cockroaches. They then proceeded to eat through the silicone seal that enclosed the world. Through collective action the ants worked together and effectively destroyed the existing system. They then marched off into the Arizona desert. Who knows what they got up to there.

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