Quote Originally Posted by flyingimam
um not to make things nastier than they are in the current situation, but you may be able to take capitalism out of greed, however u can never take greed out of capitalism.

Greed goes along with self-interest and self-interest is the basis of our system. whether politically or economically.

Greed caused us 600,000 lives in civil war, why u say? Cuz the slave owners were greedy, they could not divorce their free labor.

Greed has led to many scandals and many people's lives gettin ruined. Enron, Worldcom, and many officials and agents of the government sitting in hot water are just bold examples of it. People kill for money sometimes, aint that greed?

Materialism will not exist without greed, not at least in the way it exists today.

Greed is cherished in every aspect of our society in a rather hidden and implied way and only when people hit the bottom rock head face first, they start to think about it and question it!
Its sad isn't it. When you think what this country had the potential to become and then peoples greed just destroyed it all. Maybe sometime in the future after the economy has finally collapsed maybe people will go back to things that are more compassionate and nonmaterialistic.
killerweed420 Reviewed by killerweed420 on . Greed, and why people are scum because of it I want to discuss greed, because it has been wholly responsible for the economic situation we're in. When did it become standard to pay people exorbitant amounts of money for a stock broker, or a lawyer, or some such nonsense? Why do we pay people shit for doing the work that literally MUST BE DONE or the country will collapse? Since when do people need hundreds of thousands of dollars saved up to feel safe to retire? Why does ANYONE on this earth feel that they need millions of dollars? The Rating: 5