Corporate Altruism?
By Robert Ringer
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“Greed, 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. Greed, in all of its forms;
greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked
the upward surge of mankind.”
– “Gordon Gekko” in the movie Wall Street (1987), screenplay by Stanley Weiser and Oliver Stone
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The fact is that greed is neither good nor bad. It is simply a human trait. Greed is technically defined as “an excessive desire to acquire more than what one needs or deserves.” And since no one has either the moral authority or omniscience to decide what is excessive (let alone what a person needs or deserves), what greed really means is desire. And everyone has desires – for wealth, power, prestige, love, understanding. No end to the list.
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It’s very interesting the paradox for greed.
One can only get rich by making your fellow humans give you certificates of appreciation. (Money!) The more you serve others the more certificates you earn. You can exchange these certificate for the goods and services of your fellow human.
So be as “greedy” as your miserable nasty grim soul drives you to be.
It means you are actually cooperating in the strange Kabuki dance that we call the “free market”.
It fascinates me that “greed” actually drives “social cooperation”.
You have to admire the Intelligent Designer’s sense of humor!
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