Greed's potent, but it's *always* in the wrong hands. Think C-Stoff/T-Stoff
P.S. if not obvious, greedy people are *bad* people, good people are not greedy.
Nope. Greed is everywhere and can easily generate good as well as bad.
Don't create a system that rewards shitty people for being shitty. Children know this.
The trick is to create a system that incentivizes the greed of people to do good things.
It depends on how you define greed. If your definition is inclusive enough, everything becomes greed, e.g. boy helps old lady across the street because he's greedy -- helping others makes him feel good, so he hoards hedons. People who are greedy for *money*, OTOH, are bad people; the sort of people
I do not like. It follows that I shouldn't wittingly create a system that rewards such greed. Trying to create a system which makes greed work towards good is a Goldbergian enterprise. At best greed could null itself, everything else is trying for perpetual motion.