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Originally Posted by Yassen
Dear darwinist & Impenitent
A very rich man I know told me once “ Greed Begets Greed” as he handed me $500 cash for closing a $500,000 deal for him. This man, who I will not mention his name lied, cheated, stole millions while manipulating the system. <hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
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Originally Posted by Darwinist
Our mordern day society creates greed. Greed is feed by fear.
People are only mean when they feel threatened.
When you feel threatened you only look out for yourself. You become selfish.
Thats what the current economy does.
People who have jobs feel threatened.
Because there worried about losing those jobs.
So money becomes the most important thing. Driving everyone to be greedy. To grab as much as possible, as quick as possible. More is good, more is good.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
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Waychel
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Originally Posted by IMO greed is a basic human drive because it is an aspect of competitiveness as well as self-interest. As children, we throw temper tantrums to get things and always want all the cookies in the jar instead of one. Our parents are who dicipline us and teach us values such as sharing. So in actuality, the perspective that greed is a bad trait of the human condition that should be eliminated is one that is impressed upon us by society through our philosophy. I do not believe that we are ignorant of it and that it is impressed upon us by the capitalist conditions as others do.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
Intresting. I can relate to this situation.
But would the same thing happen, to every single child?
The basis of 'Greed' here. Can be affected by many things. What if the child was really hungry? What if the child was full?
Yes we do get taught things by our parents. But not things that we would not learn without them. Think about it. If a child was hungry and ate all the 'cookies'. It might become very sick. It would learn, that it could not eat all the 'cookies'. Or that 'fire' burns, if you put your hand in it. Because if you put your hand into the 'fire' you are going to learn very quickly, that it indeed does burn.
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Originally Posted by I also believe that list can be compressed from 4 traits into one:
1) Success - To succeed is to survive
2) Love - Love is to reproduce, which is to ensure the survival of the species
3) Understanding - Better understanding your environment is to better adapt to and survive in it
4) Survivial - They all come to this <hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
Yes i agree. Survivial is the basic underlining drive.
That is why i believe Capitalist conditions, help create greed. When your survivial is threaten. In the capitalist system, that all boils down to money. Then one of the best ways to survive. Is to become 'greedy' and 'selfish'. The most important thing, becomes 'money'. Because " Money = Survivial ".
The more you have in the Capitalist system, the more Successful you are. See number one in the above list. The more Successful you are, the more likely you will obtain Love (2). The better understanding (3) that you have of the capitlalist system. The more you can make, use and abuse.