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Originally Posted by TheInspector
And let the comments about naivity come pouring in! 
I don't need to know insurance business, because all business is the same: profits rule, and nothing else matters. It's a flaw in the corporate model (you probably learned about that in ethics). |
A flaw in the corporate model??? Any business owner's goal is to have his business succeed - success in business is typically measured by one's profit.
For the purpose of discussion I'll ignore the flawed, gross over-generalization that "nothing else matters." Pursuit of profit is not a flaw, it's the natural outworking of the pursuit of success. Maybe in a eutopian world every business would solely exist for the good of mankind, but we live on the planet earth where money is kind of important.
As a side rant while I'm thinking about it, it always blows me away at how mad people get at Microsoft for apparently being wealthy and successful. Microsoft simply did better business than everyone else and reaped the rewards - should we expect a successful company to just start giving things away when they reach a certain level of wealth? That totally flies in the face of the mindset that got that company there in the first place. Why the hell do people get angry at businesses succeeding? It's what makes the opportunitites and benefits that we enjoy possible.