...denominator. Unfortunately, we can also mostly agree that a world populated
by people and organizations whose only motive is to maximize their monetary
profits might be a pretty dismal place to live, but that seems to get lost in
the wash.
It used to be different to some extent. Seniority in a company was
revered, and no company wanted to be known as a "bad guy" that would
fire a thirty-year employee at two years from retirement.
At least one area where this profit-only-motive principle does not hold
is in the film-making industry. Consistently, time after time, the GP
films gross whopping multiple times as much as the R-rated (and much
more than those with the milder restrictions), but they keep investing
multiple times as much in the lower-profit categories.
--Alan
