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You don't need to be greedy to want to work and earn enough to eat. I manage just fine.
Greed is what prompts CEOs to award themselves obscene pay rises and bonuses even as the company records losses and blue collar workers have to be laid off. How on earth is that a good thing other than for the greedy scumbags happy to see people lose their jobs so they can earn even more ridiculous amounts of money?
Greed is what makes private companies that run public services (and this is just one instance) to cut corners and refuse to carry out maintenance work and upgrades unless it's absolutely necessary. And all because they want to maximise profits for themselves and the company’s shareholders. And if trains derail and are forever delayed, and if water pipes burst and billions of litres of water are lost because privatised water companies don't want to upgrade the network, and if customers are forever inconvenienced, offered a piss-poor service or even killed as a result of such negligence, well that's a small price to pay for the sacred right to make as much profit as possible, all in the name of greed and capitalism.
Yes, greed is such a wonderful thing...
I could not have said it better myself :thumb:
No manipulation to ones own needs, and a motivation to work, plus the healthy production of consumer goods for people to spend their credits on which the Soviet Union did not focus on.
Greed isn't just visible at the "top" echelons of business but in many others areas too. How many strikes have there been over the years for pay increases, for example. Don't youthink that a 30% wage hike requested by the fire unions last year was to make sure that they each had roofs and food or was there an element of greed.
We all want more than we have now, we all want to improve our lives there are very few people who just want to remain with the status quo...
So is Cuba a better example?
I've accepted a 0% pay rise when times have been bad. And I've been awarded generous pay rises in times when things have gone well, without requesting it. In either case greed paid no part. I believe it is possible to have a caring, even a capitalist society without the ugly and inhuman greed element, seen most actively during the Thatcher years and who prompts people to ask for unrealistic pay rises or to run their companies for the sole benefit of its shareholders and CEOs, even when the company itself is offering an essential public service to the public.
And yes, there are many CEOs for whom the rise has been a little "excessive" shall we say.
I always want more. And I can watch poor kids, sick people, etc. yet it won't have an effect of what I want for myself.
Meaning that I can wish for everyone to lead a happy healthy life, and pay to charities or whatever, but others misfortune won't make me want to achieve less.
Those are but a couple of examples of why greed is reprehensible and undesirable.
Greed is natural. And no, it doesn't always show the good in people, but neither is it completely vile and the root to all missery.
So is love.
In fact, more so...
It is possible to be ambitious without being greedy. Perhaps we just disagree in the exact term of the word. For me greed signifies an unnatural and selfish coveting of wealth, most often at the expense of someone else be directly or indirectly. An ugly word for a nasty quality.
And the greed thing...
As I said before greed is natural. We can't state that any human instinct that we don't like is not a human instinct. The idea of being human is to have less instincts than the rest of the animals and control the few we have.
The basics of a good communist education is to teach people to find equilibrium between our natural greed and our natural altruism.
This is something capitalism doesn't do. It puts way too much enfasis on greed (and then calls it ambition, and then changes the real meaning of ambition). And when we talk about altruism we show how good and strange it is, and we must pay back to the altruists all the good they have done... wich is against the point of altruism and can turn this altruism into greed.
Others misfortune will make me want to achieve more.
Greed is not directly responsible. Capitalism is directly resposible.
i watched some of the first one ...i've watched bits of stuff about painting a wall or digging the garden ...what a pile o crap!
is this what the human condition has been reduced to?
are we devolving?
you do surprie me lady ...watching stuff like that.
I wasn't surprised...
Social habits have come later.
You should be surprised I watched Big brother , I watched last nights, as a one-off, for the much publicized violent scenes
That's a poor example of how society is but it's not so far off the mark as I've found ppl to be selfish, unprincipled and greedy
Witness UK's property pre-occupation, if you've ever tried buying/selling you'll see ppls greedy nature come shining through
A lot of the Left/Anarchos are probably middle-class kids who're going to cop their parents estate in years to come . They can be whatever they claim to be, knowing there's a big fat suburban house coming to them which they can rent or sell, they'll then be laughing
Funnily enough I'm not surprised by that
Its nigh on impossible to separate people's "natural" behaviour from the influence of the society around them, so your point is not worth discussing.
LOL!
Yet again you show yourself up for the ignorant, patronsing clueless idiot that you are!
Keep 'em coming!
Hmmmm...
Again she has a point, although one based on a few example.
The person in the "House" who claimed to be an anarchist was public school educated. On her eviction she posed in the News Of The World in a catsuit.
Gotta love people with principles... :rolleyes:
Most "proper" anarchists I know are working class through and through. SWP tend to be middle class student types though.
You're not an anarchist. You're a free market libertarian.
Yes of course you were dear. :rolleyes: