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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 672407, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>CoinTalk is moderated or I would have even more to say.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The German sociologist and economist Max Weber opened his monumental book on The Protestant Work Ethic (<i>The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism</i>) with long quote from Benjamin Franklin&#039;s <a href="http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/52-fra.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/52-fra.html" rel="nofollow">The Way to Wealth</a>.&nbsp; Professor Dierdre McCloskey calls it <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&amp;bookkey=176332" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&amp;bookkey=176332" rel="nofollow">The Bourgeois Virtues.</a>&nbsp; Basically, capitalism succeeds because we do well by doing good.&nbsp; In other words, when you act ethically, you profit.&nbsp; More: in order to profit, you must act ethically.&nbsp; The questions remain: What is profit?&nbsp; What is ethics?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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