Answer true or false and then leave comments in the two spaces at the end
I will begin discussions on each of these points over the coming days, March and April of 2012.
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Profit motives, value creation and self-improvement are PARAMOUNT AND FOREMOST FOR THE GROWTH of our market-based economies. *
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Market-based economies work best when sellers and buyers both realize their own gains from the exchanges. *
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Monetary profit opportunities are permitted under social norms and values, and within the social systems created by the culture, history and the consensus of a society. *
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In market economies, great majorities of people become dependent upon earning monetary incomes from employment by business owners (subsistence farming vanishes in market economies). *
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Business owners do and must take economic advantage of employees in the creation of economic value if they are to continue their businesses. Business owners should not be allowed to recklessly profit based upon this advantage over employees. *
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The rights of individuals should not be violated by others . . . neither because a majority votes to do so, nor because some potential economic profit may be gained by doing so. *
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Business owners, corporations and the ultra-rich too often take unnecessary risks with employees’ lives and rights, the lives and rights of others, and societal and public resources. High monetary incentives, and the social status associated with wealth, seem to become focal objectives for business owners, corporations and the ultra-rich. The risks created and placed on others have been and continue to be ignored as a result of seeking these high monetary incentives. *
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We live in a Regulated-Market Economy, not in a Free-Market Economy. *
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Society can regulate greed and regulate the associated risk-taking in some ways, especially once society members agree that The Market does at times fail in regulating itself. *
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Each human is endowed with certain unalienable rights. Our societies also endow corporations, unions, political organizations, government bodies and other legal entities with some abilities. If human rights are extended to those legal inventions, then those rights are being alienated from the people.  (Refined due to survey comments) *
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An excessive income gap creates a second class of citizens. *
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For any statement you felt was false, please offer your views. You may return to this survey as often as you like to offer comments as they develop for you.
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