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No, but greed is.

• dqpb 8y ago
  That's like saying the massive amount of written content is the biggest threat to search engines. No, search engines are the solution to massive amounts of content. Greed isn't the biggest threat to democracy. Democracy (or any other form of government) is the solution to whatever set of behaviors are undesirable in the ungoverned.
• vertexFarm 8y ago
  Can you even have capitalism without greed? Greed is just a pejorative term for self-interest, which is a core assumption in the treatise of capitalism. It can't exist without it. It just needs to be limited. You can't have lassis-faire capitalism forever because the people who are most successful will change the initial conditions and it will no longer be lassis-faire. So you need some kind of control outside the free market. The free market alone is not corruption-proof in any way.
  • quadrangle 8y ago
    > Greed is just a pejorative term for self-interest Greed is a correctly pejorative term for pursuing power and wealth beyond what people actually need to live well enough. Self-interest prior to reaching that point is not greed. Capitalism is defined as private ownership of means of production and core resources. It doesn't inherently require greed. I agree with your second paragraph, btw.