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.