Greed Is Go(o)d

Among all of the vices in humanity, greed is probably the most misunderstood. The masses can quickly relate to lust, hatred, and anger. Of course there are heroes in the media that reflect these emotions, but where's the love for Scrooge? Why are people so hostile towards greed?

The answer is simple: people are broke. They prefer to whine about getting screwed over rather than get hip and be greedy themselves. They'll never get enough money to actually be qualified as a miser or greedy, because they'll spend it to sate other emotions long before then.

Commerce is the most polite form of warfare known to man, and yet the losers still have the audacity to complain about losing. On other battlefields men lose their lives, all you lost was your pension plan. What do you expect when all you do is march along to the beating of the war drum, stand up straight and fall in line everyday, letting your masters dispense your pay as they will.

No, we must slaughter our peers and neighbors, leaving only the most able to serve you. All things are in a state of change, no things are held sacred. Food and shelter is a privilege. All gifts have strings attached. Greed acknowledges these truths, instead of deluding yourself in illusion and allows you to wallow in the cynical world of fact.

Usually greed is connected with cartels and thugs who get their money by beating down competition through 'unfair' means. However we must also realize that greed can be at work in the most inventive and intelligent schemes to get capital. Greed, and the suffering that comes from it all help fuel people towards innovation. It gives them a real world material reason to get up off their asses and do something. High minded ideals are nice, however when it comes to motivating people to actually take action and produce results, they tend to fail. Curiosity is probably one of the few higher methods of inspiring people to get things done, but I will leave that for another post.

And now, I would like to leave you with a prayer I say every night before I go to bed:

Forgive us our daily debts,
As we leverage the accounts of those who have borrowed against us.
And hold me not back from profit lord,
For I seek the lion share in all endeavors.
Let the river of profit flow,
Through the untaxable canals of fortitude,
And make the current of currency well valued,
And let my accumulation have no equal.
Amen.