Greed is good?

[InDefenseOfPOMO]

23 hours ago, Ardoise said:

To justify the desire to have more than others do, you have to consider them less worthy than you.

Putting yourself above others is the first step to doing things to them that you wouldn't allow them to do to you.

Thus begins evil.

 

There is nothing wrong with personal pursuits, even if that means starting and expanding a business.

 

But those personal pursuits are almost impossible if there is no stable, functioning society within which to pursue them.

 

If everybody is taking and nobody is giving, society cannot survive, let alone function.

 

Greed is, basically, take, take, take.

 

No matter how "ethically" it is done, take, take, take can never be good.

[Jusey1]

It's funny. Men are greedy for power which leads to war. Women are greedy for beauty which leads to chopping down the rainforest, and everybody is greedy for money which causes a crap ton of problems on it's own.

Greed has been and has always been humankind's worst enemy and it will be our downfall in the end.

[simplybeourselves]

Greed is when you want more than you should want.

It's bad by definition because if you don't want too much it isn't greed and if you do want too much it is greed and "too much" is necessarily excessive: i.e. it's precisely a quantity that is more than it ought to be.