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Grex > Agora46 > #15: Socially REsponsible Investing (long) | |
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keesan
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response 53 of 104:
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Jun 26 22:25 UTC 2003 |
These all sound not much more healthy than tobacco - all based primarily on
alcohol, salt, sugar or fat - and possibly equally addictive. What is a
yuban or a snackwell or a maxim?
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tod
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response 54 of 104:
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Jun 26 22:29 UTC 2003 |
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mdw
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response 55 of 104:
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Jun 27 02:09 UTC 2003 |
I don't think any of these are as unhealthy as tobacco. There isn't any
safe way to consume tobacco.
Most of the food products could be consumed safely as part of a balanced
diet, albeit some of these should not be very large parts. A lot of
these do have more than their fair share of salt and/or sugar, fat is
over-represented, and a few even have alcohol, but I think shredded
wheat and minute rice has none of these, and coffee is low. Beer has
some alcohol, but little sugar, less fat, and no salt. I think there's
nothing here that has all 4.
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jaklumen
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response 56 of 104:
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Jun 27 02:11 UTC 2003 |
I like Grape-Nuts, thank you very much, and I don't think it's that
unhealthy =P
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senna
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response 57 of 104:
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Jun 27 02:41 UTC 2003 |
"There isn't any safe way to consume tobacco."
Sure there is--in a balloon. Same way you can safely consume mass quantities
of cocaine. ;)
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orinoco
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response 58 of 104:
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Jun 27 02:59 UTC 2003 |
Maxim? As in the "men's magazine"? Is owned by Nabisco? How odd...
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scg
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response 59 of 104:
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Jun 27 03:50 UTC 2003 |
re 57:
And given the number of people who die when those baloons burst, I
hardly think that can be called safe.
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other
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response 60 of 104:
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Jun 27 04:41 UTC 2003 |
Well, if the idiots would remember to remove the air from the balloon
before tying it off...
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gold
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response 61 of 104:
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Jun 27 04:57 UTC 2003 |
Mass quantities of cocaine may be safely consumed.
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keesan
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response 62 of 104:
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Jun 27 06:24 UTC 2003 |
Tobacco is used as an insecticide. It causes convulsions.
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jep
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response 63 of 104:
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Jun 27 12:57 UTC 2003 |
Maxim is a type of instant coffee.
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gull
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response 64 of 104:
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Jun 27 13:10 UTC 2003 |
I think it's nicotine, specifically, that's used as an insecticide.
Which may very well be why tobacco plants evolved to produce it.
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rcurl
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response 65 of 104:
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Jun 27 16:07 UTC 2003 |
Insects have convulsions?
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mdw
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response 66 of 104:
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Jun 27 17:29 UTC 2003 |
Nicotine is a stimulant. Presumably it screws up insect nervous systems
in high enough concentrations. It screws up human nervous systems as
well, it's just that most people don't eat their cigarettes, but choose
other consumption methods that kill less efficiently.
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ruru
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response 67 of 104:
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Jul 4 04:36 UTC 2003 |
nothing
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pvn
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response 68 of 104:
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Jul 4 07:37 UTC 2003 |
"Socially Responsible Investing" in the stock market is an oxymoron.
Only a moron would invest in the stock market based on being "socially
responsible". The purpose of the stock market is to make money. What
you personally do with that money after you make it is up to you.
I admire charity and practice it personally but I personally think that
anyone who practices it as an investment strategy is an idiot - and I
encourage such from an investment strategy.
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mdw
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response 69 of 104:
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Jul 6 01:33 UTC 2003 |
Silly me, and I thought the purpose of a stock exchange was to encourage
*investment* and thereby facilitate the creation and expansion of group
enterprises.
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pvn
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response 70 of 104:
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Jul 6 04:47 UTC 2003 |
To make money. Commerce is the goal.
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rcurl
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response 71 of 104:
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Jul 6 17:19 UTC 2003 |
mdw is correct: the purpose of the stock exchange is to raise capital for
business ventures. However the stock exchange is then used by others for
earning money. The ventures for making money without supporting productive
business are called casinos.
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slynne
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response 72 of 104:
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Jul 6 17:30 UTC 2003 |
I think it is perfectly reasonable for people to have other
considerations besides just money. In fact, I think it would be pretty
unethical for a person to invest in a company they knew was doing
something morally repugnant to them.
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gregb
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response 73 of 104:
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Jul 6 23:23 UTC 2003 |
Anybody know what the state of day-trading is these days?
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mdw
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response 74 of 104:
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Jul 7 01:43 UTC 2003 |
Last I heard, the 'close your eyes and stick a pin in the newspaper"
stock investment strategy was still pretty good. Of course, everybody
likes to think there's more science to it than that.
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pvn
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response 75 of 104:
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Jul 7 06:10 UTC 2003 |
Yeah, some folk use a trained monkey.
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pvn
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response 76 of 104:
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Jul 7 06:10 UTC 2003 |
...but it has to be a borrowed monkey.
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gull
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response 77 of 104:
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Jul 7 14:33 UTC 2003 |
As one commentator put it, "if market timing worked, we'd all know it,
because the person who figured it out would own just about everything by
now."
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