Quote from: abbyd on May 27, 2013, 09:35:15 AM

Quote from: wdmw on May 23, 2013, 02:46:56 PM

Quote from: Gordonium on May 22, 2013, 10:05:07 PM

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue...
...Take your choice. There is no other.

And your time is running out.

No citation?

It's Ayn Rand. In a rare moment of somewhat coherent thought...

I'm so sick of this "greed is good" meme. A child's first experience with greed is usually eating too many sweets - they get sick and don't do it again.
The whole reason we're here on this earth is because we cooperate and depend on the "kindness of strangers". Greed invariably ends badly and
causes great misery to those on the receiving end of it.

You sure about that? Have you just equated under the term "greed", the actions of a child and the actions of adults running organizations and/or institutions, then correlated the results based on the child's experience?

Secondly, fyi, Rand did not say "Greed is good." The above quote refers to the rebuttal by Rand of an assertion that "Money is the root of all evil", cast in fiction in Atlas Shrugged. Even when Rand asserts that acting in one's own self interest is good, that...applied to the child would indicate the child should not eat so many sweets.

I think what may confuse the entire issue is the various definitions and uses of the term "greed."