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I agree with your summary. Greed has won out over everything else.
by doodlebugging 2mo ago
I agree with your summary. Greed has won out over everything else.
- albeebe1 2mo agoGreed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
- krapp 2mo agoGreed is "good" for a few, clearly.
- Terr_ 2mo agoWe must be greedy for justice, greedy for kindness, greedy for people taking responsibility for their actions...
- LtWorf 2mo agoThere is no such thing as an evolutionary spirit.
- smilespray 2mo agoYou're quoting Wall Street (1987), but it's not clear whether you're in support of the sentiment or not. Plenty of people around here weren't born when that film came out.
- salawat 2mo agoGreed is good for the Greedy, but disasterous for anyone you'd ever want live with. Greed simplifies and creates clarity by destroying and debasing acts of humanity that are actually worthy to something that can exist as a row in a ledger. A society cannot thrive on greed alone. A society based only on greed abandons every moral check against corruption and manipulation imaginable. There is nothing more frightening to a crook than a world full of decent people that can't empathize with greed, and will actually talk amongst themselves about it, and react. Without greed, people can't be easily greased or goaded. They can't be controlled or cajoled or moved with mere trickery. You are forced to appeal in the one thing the crook doesn't have in abundance. Virtue, and rightness.
- eru 2mo agoHa, if only! I'd like to live in that utopia! If eg Putin had been more greedy instead of power hungry, we wouldn't have had his war against Ukraine. Same for many other wars and conflicts, including the US war on Iran, or even WW2 if you want to go back in time.