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HP's Dunn Stepping Down
XJHardware writes "Yahoo news is reporting that Patricia Dunn is stepping down from the chair of HP." From the article: "Hurd will retain his existing positions as chief executive and president and Dunn will remain as a director after she relinquishes the chair on Jan. 18. 'I am taking action to ensure that inappropriate investigative techniques will not be employed again. They have no place in HP,' Hurd said in a statement. Dunn apologized for the techniques used in the company's probe, which included 'pretexting' in which private investigators impersonated board members and journalists to acquire their phone records."
Actually, I'm prejudiced about just about anything and a rather bitter, negative person. It comes with age (almost 40), experiences (divorce) and I've "heard" (hopefully) being slightly intelligent....
"All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
Why do 10% of the people own and control 90% of the resources?
Redistribution of wealth, pure and simple.
Less than 1% of the people are responsible for more than 99% of production. People like Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Linus Torvalds, and Bob from Account Temps should, by right, own and control their fair share of the resources. But the government robs them of their right.
Actually, part of the reason is benevolence. Ford wanted to pay his workers (he employed jews, also) a fair wage, and Torvalds wanted to spread his communist ideology to opiate the religionless masses, so they gave away more resources than they were required to by law (while still paying their required taxes.
The question of the inherited wealth controlled by the corporations founded by the likes of Ford and Edison is a different topic, though.