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6. I Only Wish

While I agree that the greed involved in the idea of profit is flawed, it does have its positive points. Like adding poisonous ingredients in small amounts to medicine, it just wouldn't work without them. Without any profit motive, many humans tend to get lazy; one only has to look at the examples of Soviet era cars to get an idea of what happens without some element of profit.

But, if private enterprise and non-profit government companies had to compete with each other, we could have the best of both worlds. Private enterprise would have to raise salaries and benefits to compete for the best workers while trying to prove that people-run businesses are as bad as they've been saying for the past century. On the other hand, the people involved in government-run industries would have to work hard at innovation and quality control to prove that things could be run in a way that would treat workers as people and the environment as important to all life on the planet.

However, whether it involves my ideas or something totally different, I think we can all agree that something has to be done. The high-tech world is one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed while the population keeps rising and the environment continues to deteriorate.