Its true: greed has had a very bad press. I frankly dont see anything wrong with greed. I think that the people who are always attacking greed would be more consistent with their position if they refused their next salary increase. I dont see even the most Left-Wing scholar in this country scornfully burning his salary check. In other words, "greed" simply means that you are trying to relieve the nature given scarcity that man was born with. Greed will continue until the Garden of Eden arrives, when everything is superabundant, and we dont have to worry about economics at all. We havent of course reached that point yet; we havent reached the point where everybody is burning his salary increases, or salary checks in general.
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