Sunday, April 29, 2012

Businesses Should Discriminate!

President Obama on April 27th at Fort Stewart, Georgia:

You’re dealing with folks who aren’t interested in helping you.  They’re not interested in helping you find the best program.  They are interested in getting the money.  They don’t care about you; they care about the cash. That’s appalling.  That’s disgraceful.  It should never happen in America."
He's talking about for-profit Universities.  Of course, they're not interested in helping you find the best program.  They're interested in you attending their program.  That's how all for-profits work.  Maybe the most idealistic believe that for-profit enterprises should exist to help you find the good that is best for you, but I think almost everyone realizes that this is not the case.

Is he saying that businesses should always care more about the consumer than the cash?  That would be a weird way to run an economy.  Apple should no longer sell iPhones to people who would be better off with Androids.  McDonald's should ask people before they order why they've come and personal characteristics.  If the answers imply that the person would be better off cooking for themselves, McDonald's should refuse to serve them!  McDonald's and all other businesses in the US need to re-examine they're policy of conducting business with anyone who seeks their products.  Only then, will we have utopia.

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