Re: Ethical Investment Gone Wild

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Jul 19 2003 - 01:44:47 MDT

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    On Friday 18 July 2003 08:37, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
    > > Robin Hanson wrote:
    > >> I just came across this thought-provoking future speculation by
    > >> Geoffrey Miller, author of "The Mating Mind":
    > >> http://psych.unm.edu/faculty/moral_vision.htm
    > >> There's something broken about this idea, but its hard to say
    > >> exactly what it is.
    >
    > ### To put it briefly - Miller believes that successful companies exist
    > because investors invest in them. A more correct vision, IMO, is that
    > companies exist primarily because customers demand their services and are
    > willing to pay. Investors come later.

    Not quite. Without seed capital and continuing investment companies cannot
    get off the ground and offer anything to would be customers.

    - s



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