THE GROWING CONTRADICTIONS OF PRODUCTION AND BUSINESS
Modern society is forced to believe that production and business are practically the same. That all production is for profit. That a businessman is not a thief and not a speculator, but on the contrary, a respected person who contributes to the progress and development of the economy. The simple-minded man in the street takes such statements for granted, and the associated costs, such as poverty, devastation, unemployment, the arrogant luxury of “businessmen”, with their palaces on the Cote d’azur and yachts in the Atlantic, is regarded as an inevitable evil, as a fee for the lack of “deficits” and queues for sausage. …