Comments on: Profit isn’t Enough for Progress

By: Act on Causes not Outcomes « For Progress, Not Growth

Act on Causes not Outcomes « For Progress, Not Growth — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:38:30 +0000

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By: A Viable Society Requires A Viable Citizenry « For Progress, Not Growth

A Viable Society Requires A Viable Citizenry « For Progress, Not Growth — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:18:55 +0000

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By: Beyond The Bottom Line « For Progress, Not Growth

Beyond The Bottom Line « For Progress, Not Growth — Sun, 29 May 2011 10:54:50 +0000

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By: Corporate Overlords « For Progress, Not Growth

Corporate Overlords « For Progress, Not Growth — Tue, 24 May 2011 10:43:36 +0000

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By: Making Quality in America « For Progress, Not Growth

Making Quality in America « For Progress, Not Growth — Fri, 20 May 2011 11:41:57 +0000

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By: To Create Jobs Pursue Quality « For Progress, Not Growth

To Create Jobs Pursue Quality « For Progress, Not Growth — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:20:59 +0000

[...] concern for growth in profit cannot lead to progress. Progress is not adequately served if the probability of profitable gain is the only or dominant [...]

By: progressus

progressus — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:15:44 +0000

We do need economic activity (i.e. commerce) to meet our basic needs–material as well as social needs. Ted and Fred were earning a profit, and it was likely at a sustainable rate–everyone benefits. With advent of money–representing stored work–it was believed the concern for spoilage would disappear. Unfortunately money does spoil; it can spoil the very intent of commerce & economic activity.

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By: John Beardsley

John Beardsley — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:37:01 +0000

I think you need to go back to the very origins of business, and early bartering and exchange of goods and services of early peoples of this planet, perhaps go back as far as the stone age. These situations can still be found in the Amazon basin and in certain Jungles of South East Asia.

Fred Flinstone was good at making arrow heads and bows and arrows, but he was not a very good shot. and would hunt for days and come back with nothing to eat. Ted Bonehead was good at huntintg but when he tried to make an arrow head out of flint it always shattered and when he tried to make an arrow it always flew crooked so he had nothing to eat on his own.

So what what happened was Fred used to make arrows for Ted and Ted used to supply fred with food.

Fred had to trust Ted and Ted had to trust Fred. They both depended on working out a fair exchange. Any thing else they both died.

Thats how business started folls, 15000 years later we had some coffee houses in Istambul and other cities of Middle East and the Orient, and things started getting a little more complicated. 2000 years after that we started screwing up business big time, and this is where we are at now.

I suppose some one from Harvard or Oxford (Uk)
will have a fancy explanation of what I have just stated above

I would say the original point of business was basic mutual survival, no more, no less.

If Ted killed too many animals, he had no way store them or keep then edible. If Fred made too many arrows he had no one to use them.

In that enviroment both Fred and Ted saught progress rather profit and growth.