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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 02:39 PM Original message |
I've never met a left-wing business student... |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
1. I think the whole "business school" movement |
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newtothegame (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 02:45 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. I just finished my MBA and we covered sustainability, corporate responsibility, etc. VERY HEAVILY... |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:04 PM Response to Reply #7 |
20. I want to believe |
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vi5 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
2. What do you mean by business student? |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
3. Hi, I'm Rob. I go by YOY on DU. |
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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 02:51 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. I'm Michael. I'm a poli sci/phillosophy undergrad... |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:08 PM Response to Reply #12 |
22. Well, my major was International Relations in undergrad and I focused on Int. Project Management. |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 02:57 PM Response to Reply #3 |
17. But you're a rare beast, YOY. |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:13 PM Response to Reply #17 |
25. True story T. |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:24 PM Response to Reply #25 |
29. Did you ask him, "Top half or bottom?" |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:40 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. He was more than a little creepy. |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
4. I was a poli-sci major taking the required classes for my CPA... |
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OneTenthofOnePercent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 02:45 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. how so? |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:04 PM Response to Reply #8 |
19. The folks in the Business school were all about... |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
5. The guy Obama appointed as car czar (Ron Bloom) was/is a left wing MBA |
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Cant trust em (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
6. Similarly, I don't know many right wing MSW students. |
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RedCloud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
9. Free market blahblahzoo just means they won't pay taxes! |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
10. I know someone with a 4 year business degree who is very liberal. |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 02:49 PM Response to Original message |
11. I was a left wing business student. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
13. I know a bunch |
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Call Me Wesley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
14. Funny you said that, |
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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 02:55 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Well see I'm the same kind of person... |
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Call Me Wesley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:02 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. I'm glad you're the same kind of person. |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:11 PM Response to Reply #15 |
23. This is what frightens me about getting a masters. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
16. I know lots of them. Not nearly as many as republicans, though... |
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SeeHopeWin (649 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
21. I am a hard leftist MBA, love capitalism, don't mind paying my share of taxes to help everyone else. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:18 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. I don't think you understand at least one of the two terms you've used: |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:41 PM Response to Reply #26 |
33. The key to functional and successful capitalism is knowing where it belongs and where it doesn't. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:52 PM Response to Reply #33 |
39. Right, but the darwinian nature of capitalism dictates the most aggressive |
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SeeHopeWin (649 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:55 PM Response to Reply #39 |
43. There is no oil in Sweden |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 04:13 PM Response to Reply #43 |
46. There's a great deal of oil in "Scandinavia", which I what I mentioned. |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:56 PM Response to Reply #39 |
44. I always saw it as so highly regulated that it had to be a "balanced" |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 04:09 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. The present healthcare "debate" proves that this "biome" is NOT under our control whatsoever. |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 08:45 PM Response to Reply #45 |
48. Indeed it isn't. Hard enforced regulation and massive taxation on the top tiers in my remedy. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 11:43 AM Response to Reply #48 |
49. No, that's not a *remedy*, it's a *goal*. You have to describe how we get from here to there. |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 11:50 AM Response to Reply #49 |
50. I assume you're joking. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 11:52 AM Response to Reply #50 |
51. *whooosh* nt |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 12:03 PM Response to Reply #51 |
52. Yeah...I'm sarcasm impared. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 12:20 PM Response to Reply #52 |
53. The chances of me locating the "perfect dictator" are the same as those of you |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 12:39 PM Response to Reply #53 |
54. If were talking theoretical sure. Theoretically Libertarians make sense too. |
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stranger81 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 04:41 PM Response to Reply #49 |
57. Take away corporate legal status as "persons." |
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SeeHopeWin (649 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:54 PM Response to Reply #33 |
42. I have family in Sweden, we go there every summer...I watch them do it |
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SeeHopeWin (649 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:52 PM Response to Reply #26 |
38. Understood...But I really am...... |
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TNDemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
24. I was one. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:22 PM Response to Original message |
27. Capitalism is social darwinism. It's not compatible with being "left wing" |
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conscious evolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:22 PM Response to Original message |
28. My sister is a liberal |
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Rebel Scum (76 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
30. When I was in college in the early 80's.... |
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cbdo2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
31. What are the benefits of socialism from your business or economics perspective? |
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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:42 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. Stable markets, takes vital industry/services out of the hands of private interests... |
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cbdo2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:50 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. So how is this relevant to non-vital industry/services? |
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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:53 PM Original message |
Do you mean how will this benefit the private sector? |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:53 PM Response to Reply #31 |
40. Ask Ikea. Volvo. Nokia. GRanted most of what's going on now is hardly "Socialism" by a stretch. |
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liberalpragmatist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:45 PM Response to Original message |
35. I know lots of progressive economists |
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kgnu_fan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
37. I heard an economics professor Joel Magnuson of Portland Oregon |
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W_HAMILTON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 03:54 PM Response to Original message |
41. Nice to meet you! |
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taught_me_patience (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-13-09 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
47. I'm graduating with an MBA in a couple of months |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
55. There's a recent doc film on SF author/journalist, Harlan Ellison ... |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-14-09 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
56. The majority of the MBA's I work with are progressives. |
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