Averages Don't Always Reveal The Most Telling

In The Early 1970s, Milton Friedman Argued That Corporations Should Not Be Socially Responsible Because They Had No Mandate To Be; They Existed To Make Money, Not To Be Charitable Institutions. But In The Economy Of The 21st Century, Corporations Cannot Be Socially Responsible, If Social Responsibility Is Understood To Mean Sacrificing Profits For The Sake Of Some Perceived Social Good. That's Because Competition Has Become So Much More Intense.

The Intellectual Equipment Needed For The Job Of The Future Is An Ability To Define Problems, Quickly Assimilate Relevant Data, Conceptualize And Reorganize The Information, Make Deductive And Inductive Leaps With It, Ask Hard Questions About It, Discuss Findings With Colleagues, Work Collaboratively To Find Solutions And Then Convince Others.

Now, Inventiveness And Empathy, Those Qualities, If They're Together In The Same Person, You've Got An Entrepreneurial Genius. But They Do Tend To Be Slightly Separate.

On The Republican Playing Field, Republicans Always Win.

I Was There In Washington In The `90s. It Was Pretty Bad Then. It`s Much Worse Now [in 2015]. And That Vicious Cycle Is You`ve Got Again Big Corporations, Executives, Wall Street, Very Wealthy Individuals In Both Parties Who Are Calling The Shots.