Don't get me wrong, we all need to earn our living. And we all aren't fortunate enough to do something useful and honorable that helps humanity. But work is enobling, and a social good, and you can't blame anyone for doing whatever it takes to protect those he loves. And if you can make a business out of doing something you love because you're successful at it, then more power to ya. You can accomplish more good by heading a big company than by being a single employee, regardless of your skills and dedication. And yes, you deserve to benefit from the profits, as well.

But people who are professional businessmen, Capitalists, are only interested in building a machine that generates wealth, regardless of what is consumed or who benefits--or who or what is lost in the process.. They don't care what they do or what they make, as long as its profitable. They'll switch businesses in a heartbeat, and go into something totally different if they think they can make more money at it.

Its like being a soldier. If you fight to defend your country, or to oppose a brutal enemy creed, or because you are sincerely committed to the cause you fight for, then that is honorable and decent, EVEN IF YOU ARE MISTAKEN OR DELUDED IN YOUR ALLEGIANCE. But if you fight and destroy because you like what you do, because you enjoy killing strangers, because you're only in it for the money, then you are just a mercenary.

I don't like mercenaries. They are like lawyers, or politicians, samurai who will sell their swords while hiding behind a smokescreen of honor and loyalty and a bogus moral code. They'll fight for either side as long as the pay is right. Sure, not everyone who gets involved in these professions is like that, but too many are, and as a culture we lavish entirely too much respect and admiration on these people. And we let them get away with way too much.

I prefer scholars, scientists and artists as my friends