COMMON LINK TO PROGRESS--SELF

SELF INTEREST IS NOT SELFISH

...in theory...

There are those who think that self interest will always amount to greed. Not everyone will become a Ken Lay or Tom DeLay.

Self interest means minding your own business. If everyone minds his own affairs he won't have time to mind others, and he will soon see that a combined or common interest will yet be for everyone's benefit.

Government was invented to be in the interest of all: gvt will perform common services too large or mundane for individuals, yet regulate behavior in limited cases with the common good as a goal.

Self interest is not selfist - self first - sell only - interest: You are not served when you eat your seedcorn. Monsanto not only wants us to eat our seedcorn, but they want to use government to force us to eat it and repurchace from them. They are selfish and have perverted government function through lobbys to ignore common interests.

Make up your own example of corruption from the daily news, then you will come to a simple point:

Self interest is unselfishness.

-30-bobby