Enrich world by enriching yourself
As I approach retirement, I must resign myself to the inevitable: I will not be asked to deliver the commencement address at either Washington State University or the University of
Idaho. And that's OK. Because the most important message that I can impart regarding higher education and how it can affect your life is infinitely more valuable to a freshman than it could ever be to someone who has already finished college. And so I take this occasion to give my advice to the graduating classes of 2019.
Commencement speakers are frequently self-congratulatory politicians who flatter themselves by exhorting graduates to follow their glittering example and go into "public service." They are frauds, one and all.
There is not a public servant in office today who has contributed to the betterment of the human race more than Microsoft, Apple, Monsanto, Archer Daniels Midland, the Ford Motor Co., Caterpillar or British Petroleum. With the exception of those companies who owe their existence to government subsidies, you can get a good measure of a firm's contribution to humanity from their bottom line, the bigger the better. Profits are the mechanism through which free market rewards those who provide valuable services to humanity/Michael Costello, Lewiston Tribune. More here.
Question: Do you agree with Costello that the greatest contributions to mankind have been made by highly successful corporations?
