In Search of Increasing Profits

The demand for commercial organizations to produce ­ever-increasing profits has become incessant. If you don’t believe that, then open your Internet search engine and put in the words the need for increased ­profitability. Using Google, the return was more than 96 million results in a fraction more than one-tenth of a second. Yahoo! provided an even greater return of 187 million results and many, if not most of them, were promoting ways to increase profits. Our capitalist system has a lot to answer for!

Francis Fukuyama5 has a view on that and he is convinced that the triumph of the West, Western ideas, and the alleged exhaustion of viable alternatives to liberalism has anointed capitalism as the dominant social, ...

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