From an ad for Texas Capital Bank in The Wall Street Journal, 12/9/14:
TEXAS CAPITALISM
When was the last time you saw an ad from any business, much less a bank, that mentioned the word “capitalism?” Texas Capital Bank was touting its ability to provide capital and business expertise to privately held companies, with a regional bottler as an example. There was no mention of serving the community, giving back, paying forward, donations to charity, or any of the myriad other causes cited by so much advertising that tries to convince us that companies are not in business to make money, but rather to give it away. They act is if they are ashamed of their main purpose and motivation. They then wonder why they have so many critics, and why those critics seem to win all the arguments. If you concede your critics’ moral premises, you’ve already lost the argument.
Straight Line Logic is PROUDLY CAPITALISTIC, making money from a readership large enough to support advertising and readers who buy Robert Gore’s novels. It features ads from third parties who want to reach SLL’s quality readers on a quality site. You’ll see no ads touting SLL’s altruism. SLL stands for mutually beneficial voluntary exchange, and if you’d like to engage in same, and check out Robert Gore’s fiction, buy The Golden Pinnacle or The Gordian Knot. Links are on the blogroll.
