I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth.
I don't want to buy something that has harmed anyone. This is my absolutely strongest belief, and I believe other people think this, too. Or if they don't now, they will.
You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.
It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.
I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.
They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.
Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.
I'm definitely sensitive to the idea of exploitation. You don't want to glamorize certain things.
The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.