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Business owners do not normally work for money either. They work for
the enjoyment of their competitive skill, in the context of a life
where competing skillfully makes sense. The money they earn supports
this way of life. The same is true of their businesses. One might
think that they view their businesses as nothing more than machines to
produce profits, since they do closely monitor their accounts to keep
tabs on those profits.

But this way of thinking replaces the point of the machine’s activity
with a diagnostic test of how well it is performing. Normally, one
senses whether one is performing skillfully. A basketball player does
not need to count baskets to know whether the team as a whole is in
flow. Saying that the point of business is to produce profit is like
saying that the whole point of playing basketball is to make as many
baskets as possible. One could make many more baskets by having no
opponent.

An Iraqi whose corpse was photographed with grinning U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib died under CIA interrogation while in a position condemned by human rights groups as torture — suspended by his wrists, with his hands cuffed behind his back, according to reports reviewed by The Associated Press.

AP

“Today we do not want to form a front against anybody, particularly not against the United States,” Imad Moustapha said.

I can’t imagine why anyone would have thought that…

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