Except the Son of God
There is a very controversial article on Toyota:
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While all automakers have employees who handle NHTSA issues, Toyota may be alone among the major companies in employing former agency staffers to do so. Spokesmen for General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co., Chrysler Group LLC and Honda Motor Co. all say their companies have no ex-NHTSA people who deal with the agency on defects.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aTfVxj4_pJh4
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A car is for a man. A man is not for a car maker. There is a limit to measures a car maker is allowed to take in selling its cars. Toyota should realize that their cars must first serve people's happiness before increase the company's wealth.
SECTION I: A STORY OF A NOTABLE JAPANESE
He started to work in Japan's National Railway in the Osaka District in 1943, since Osaka was so close to Kyoto Prefecture, his home town, and the second largest city of Japan.
After WWII, namely after having served the Imperial military, he returned to his old workshop to be a supervisor in charge of preventing illegal acts by railroad staff.
One day he found that it would have been effective for preventing illegal ticket reuse if a ticket had been punched not only at an entrance gate but also at 100 km point, 150 km point, and so on by a conductor in a running car. His idea was approved by his immediate boss and boss's bosses on the ladder. So, he took a written request for managerial approval to those bosses as an official custom in most of Japanese companies and public offices, from the lower to the upper.
Finally, he was (unusually) allowed to come up to the office of the chief executive of the Osaka District of Japan's National Railway to get final approval.
He respectfully explained his idea and asked for the chief executive's seal on his paper. Accordingly, the head of the District affixed his seal on the written request, since it was also a Japanese custom to use a seal rather than sign one's name on official paper. But, the seal happened to be upside down on the sheet of paper.
Yet, the young supervisor respectfully asked the top of the District whether he did not like the idea. The chief executive, namely a very elite railroad bureaucrat, responded taking a little offence: "What?"
"My former boss on approving a matter of issue used to sign his name with a red pencil when he liked an idea contained there, but with a blue pencil when he did not. Sir, you have affixed your seal with the wrong side up," said the honest employee.
The executive of Japan's National Railroad got a little excited, since he was quite an elite who graduated from the Imperial University of Tokyo, but soon corrected it by drawing a strike-through over the wrong mark and pressing his seal, again, hard on the form. "Is this OK?" "Thank you very much, sir!"
Three days after his visit to the office of the top of the great Osaka District where thousands or more of railroad men were working, the diligent supervisor was called by his immediate boss who then interestingly said, "You taught Mr. Sato how to affix a seal? Our manager was told by Mr. Sato that there was a staff member in his section who had taught the chief executive how to affix a seal." The young railroad man got proudly bashful.
Decades later in 1960's, the chief executive, Eisaku Sato, was elected as Japan's Prime Minister to serve the top office of the nation for eight years until 1972. He was also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974.
The young railroad supervisor, Mr. Hiromu Nonaka, later became a town mayor, Deputy Governor of Kyoto, a Lower House member of the National Diet, Chief Cabinet Secretary of the Obuchi Cabinet in 1998, and so on to be one of key LDP politicians till his retirement in 2003. Even today, he is active through the media and in politics-related fields.
(Note: Mr. Hiromu Nonaka wondered if Chief Executive Eisaku Sato on purpose affixed his seal upside down on the request form as he did not personally like Mr. Nonaka's idea even if it had not been intended to insult Mr. Nonaka, a young staff member then.)
Mr. Hiromu Nonaka, as powerful as prime minister once or around 2000, is sometimes positioned against former Prime Minister Mr. Junichiro Koizumi as well as DPJ Secretary-General Mr. Ichiro Ozawa.
(http://books.rakuten.co.jp/rb/%E8%80%81%E5%85%B5%E3%81%AF%E6%AD%BB%E3%81%AA%E3%81%9A-%E9%87%8E%E4%B8%AD%E5%BA%83%E5%8B%99%E5%85%A8%E5%9B%9E%E9%A1%A7%E9%8C%B2-%E9%87%8E%E4%B8%AD%E5%BA%83%E5%8B%99-9784167600037/item/3696472/)
However, probably former Prime Minister Mr. Junichiro Koizumi and DPJ Secretary-General Mr. Ichiro Ozawa will not write their memoirs, in my feeling, since they have never worked in a railroad company as one of non-elite staff after WWII.
SECTION II: What is Not Holy
In principle, every religion teaches that you should not envy anything others have but you have not.
But, anything that you have but makes others who do not have it envy you can be evil.
In this context, the commercialism that uses a commercial which makes people not only want specific goods but also envy those who have already purchased the goods can be evil.
Put simply, whatever goods that make you want them can be evil.
Whoever makes you envy him or her can be evil.
It is so, since nobody envies Jesus Christ for any goods He has.
So, do not make others envy you for whatever you have!
("Pope, you are making some envy you!! You cannot be holy at all!!," some might be shouting.)
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Problems in this world you recognize cannot be solved while you keep your living standard.
Conversely, you have reached the living standard by increasing problems in this world.
That is why an economist who does not like to sacrifice his living standard cannot help the society solve its financial or economic problems.
They are playing roles of politicians, economists, or critics, but the story has been decided by somebody else who is not on the stage.
In Christianity, that somebody is the Son of God.
Luk 2:13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Luk 2:14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Luk 2:15 And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
Luk 2:16 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.
Luk 2:17 And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.
Luk 2:18 And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.