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Your comment does a lot of mental gymnastics to avoid calling stealing, stealing and a crime, crime. Americans don’t view greed positively, we are too busy try
by dvdhnt 7y ago
Your comment does a lot of mental gymnastics to avoid calling stealing, stealing and a crime, crime.
Americans don’t view greed positively, we are too busy trying to survive a rigged system without falling victim to some financially crippling life event.
- lowmagnet 7y agoAt the personal level, I don't think many value greed as a virtue. The only people who do this explicitly to my knowledge are the descendants of Rand's Objectivism, of which our Fed chair of many years, Alan Greenspan, was definitely an adherent. His chairmanship had ushered in a new culture of vulture capital in the 80s and we're only now catching up on how dystopian it all is.