Greed is Good?

Is greed a good thing? No but after watching the movie Wall Street and hearing Michael Douglas’s character give a speech that greed is a good thing I would have to agree. Greed stands for a lot of emotions like determination, desire, willingness, ambition, ect. These are the principals that have brought the American society to where it is today. Survival of the fittest is key when considering who succeeds and who doesn’t. Greed is more of a battle of wits than muscle or intimidation. The small skinny smart guy is likely to be the shark and the big dumb idiot with extra money is likely to be the bait. Greed weeds out the bad seeds if you ask me, and they’re the ones who were never going to financially flourish anyway. All that leaves is smart people finding ways to take advantage of other people’s financial situation to benefit their own.

Greed is a human instinct and represents a lot more than just money. All physical possessions and emotional satisfaction we strive to gain more of even if it means taking it from others no matter the cost. Greed may have brought a society to the great place it is thought of today but at the expense of how many countries, governments and citizens of the world. All together to me… greed is a horrible thing; the idea that I can willfully outwit someone out of something they equally desire just because I’m smarter is taking advantage of them in what our society considers for the most part legal transaction. The fact is Greed weeds out the idiots and survival of the fittest is a fact of life so accept it along with all the injustice, mistrust and misuse of authority. Because in the end having all the smart people running shit is still better for the whole (society) than sharing authority’s equally. America is a Democracy and by definition is not a greedy type of government. Yet and still the Corporatism political appointees and presidents have allowed has literally sold out the American people, future generations, its recourses, along with its self worth and dignity. "A corporation is a business formed as a separate legal entity"(Essentials of Business Law 6th ed., Liuzzo & Bonnice, pg. 268) American business and government bankrupts other countries and its citizens because?...better them than us right . That’s all greed is, it has two sides and no one wants nonprofit side.

Political officials profit individually and the American society suffers collectively, where is the accountability. "Feduciary responsibility is a lega requirement that a person will exrecise his or her authoritywhile working under duty of loyalty and a duty of care."(Essentials of Business Law 6th ed., Liuzzo & Bonnice, pg. 270)There is no Greed Court. Our gold standard meant something a hundred years ago until it was privatized into the Fed, which we still consider a government entity. When it is not, it is a private bank that pays no taxes has no laws for accountability and answers to no one. So what do you do when your gold volume is private and refutably audited for over 20 years? Accept it… accept that your money is worth what they tell you it’s worth. And if the people running the show hand out too many bonuses or even become victims of greed themselves. They print more money to fix the problem and tell you its still equal to the same amount it was the day before.

To me that‘s the ultimate pansy scheme to sell America to people of other countries and their governments piece by piece until one day it’s no longer America. Either they don’t realize they are traitors or they don’t care but in my opinion all life is ruled by greed, you wouldn’t have your accomplishments today without it. But for every accomplishment that ever came to someone came hand in hand with the failure of someone else. So yea we are all created equal but it is our greed that separates us later on in life. Nothing more nothing less. Greed is the root of all evil, money is just a piece of paper. My sixth grade teacher said, “ It’s only worth a dollar because you think it’s worth a dollar.”