I worked as a teacher in the Michigan Department of Corrections for nearly 30 years. I retired from state service in 2003. I am now an adjunct history instructor at Baker College of Muskegon, in Muskegon, Michigan--and I love it.
...We must honestly admit that capitalism has often left a gulf between superfluous wealth and abject poverty, has created conditions permitting necessities to be taken from the many to give luxuries to the few, and has encouraged small hearted men to become cold and conscienceless so that, like Dives before Lazarus, they are unmoved by suffering, poverty-stricken humanity. The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspire men to be more I-centered than thou-centered.
