[FRIAM] "because of capitalism, because of greed"

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

I guess on some accounts, some greeds are better than other greeds.  Perhaps we should simply the discussion  and talk about greedy-greeds and ungreedy greeds.  And then we could redefine greed as the ratio of Ungreedy greeds to the sum of greedy greeds and ungreedy greeds.  

Nick Thompson
ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

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Contrast this:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/mar/23/greed-and-capitalism-behind-jab-success-boris-johnson-tells-mps

with this:

https://newsletterhunt.com/emails/12216
> they can’t efficiently use that influence to push specific corporate actions that would idiosyncratically improve individual companies. Instead they use it to push very broad ideas that they think will improve long-term results for companies generally.


It's a weird kinda greed and it's not capitalism as I understand it (given my ignorance). If *that's* greed, then I guess we're all greedy. It's my greed that makes me want all the homeless to be housed? It's my greed that encourages me to over tip during the pandemic? It's my greed that causes me to support a $15/hr minimum wage? Hm. Is greed pro-social? Has Wall Street become a socialist institution? "I have no idea what's goin' on."

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