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Greed is good for you, but it is not good for others. Do you imagine yourself to be more important than others? Then you think greed is good. Do you imagine others to be more important than you? Then you think greed is not good.
Greed is a vice. It's most definitely not a good thing, and as a motivator, it makes people do very bad things.
However, I've seen Maxist claptrap motivate otherwise good people to do some really, really terrible things. Worse than anything Gordon Gekko dreamed of doing. Worse than anything the worst of the robber barons did.
The problem isn't the sentiment. The problem is that Communism turns into a religion that demands subjugation of all dissenting and all potential threats. It creates an army of loyalists who sometimes do their darndest to impose their religion on their neighbors.
This sort of thinking has caused hundreds of millions of people to suffer over the past century.
As much as I think parts of Asia get a bad rap, and I really think even nominally Communist governments have improved to the point where they're functioning much better now than they did in the 60s or 70s, Communism was scary for a reason. It was a plague that killed millions of people. Millions of people who were just as human, just as deserving of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, as your or I. Same hopes, same dreams, same families.
I don't want to practice greed. It's not a good lifestyle, and it can make one into a bad person. However, I've seen up close what Communism can do, and it's one of the vilest, ugliest things the planet has ever seen.
Literal, figurative or classic def of greed determines your answer.
Greed, in this context, is used loosely and for dramatic impact as an attention getter.
Greed may be interpreted as simple personal motivation to participate in the economy and achieve goals for oneself and by default, for the greater good of society.
Greed in the classic sense depicts a rich person in his counting room, fondling gold coins that he hoarded. He is not spending, just hoarding, take the coin of the realm out of circulation, doing no one any good.
So sure, greed is good as money that is earned, is then spent, handed to another member of society and so on.
Generosity is good so how can its opposite, greed, also be good?
People are stupid sometimes..
Some people are...
Some people are only "generous" with other peoples money, does that mean all generosity is good?
Water is good, too much or too little is bad.
Heat is good, too much or too little is bad.
If light is good does that mean that dark is bad? Of course not.
Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. The long version of "greed is good".
How much advancement has been done with purely altruistic motives? Almost none. People do it for greed, either for money or fame or recognition - mostly money.
Greed is good for you, but it is not good for others.
Not true at all. Millions of us have benefited from the greed of others. I recently went to the Hearst Castle and enjoyed it. It was built from greed.
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Do you imagine yourself to be more important than others? Then you think greed is good.
No, not even close. It's not that simple.
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Do you imagine others to be more important than you? Then you think greed is not good.
again, you are connecting things that are totally unrelated.
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