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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Greed is not what drives successful people... passion is.
Greed is what makes one man step over a dieing man for a dollar, no part of greed is good... not for yourself, business, or the world.
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Ok, we'll agree to disagree on the different connotations of the word. Fact remains that whatever it is that drives a person, the problem still is aggression. The problem still are people who violate other people's property rights. Whether it is by forcing them to buy something they don't want to buy or by stealing part of their property to make up the losses of some shady corporation etc.
A free and prosperous society is one where people are free to use their own property, one where people feel secure to save their property for later use if they want (unlike our current system that encourages people to spend their income because otherwise they would lose part of it to the tax man or to inflation),...