Reply #114: Risk

[Cal Carpenter]

Like the risk of poisoning water and land so that production is as cheap as possible (and as profitable as possible - for the few) while the majority of the people pay for it forever, via their health and taxes.

How, in the face of some of the most blatant disasters (gulf oil spill, nuclear plants in Japan) caused by profitable 'risk' taking, not to mention the 'small' ones (pesticides in our food and water, toxic plastic in baby bottles) can you make this argument? When the quest for profit generates cheap products that are designed to be obsolete ASAP and create waste and contamination in both production and disposal...

The long term costs of those so-called 'risks' are put right back on the people. The same people who generated the profit for the few, the same people who work their butts off and barely make a living if at all...

What is really risky these days? Starting off with more money than one person could possibly need, and 'risking' some of it to make even more? Or just trying to be a normal human being working a 'normal' job and trying to make a living in the face of shrinking wages and benefits all in the name of some uber-wealthy person's increased bank account?

Risk. My ass.

Try again.