Greed is not good, its great!

[Big Al]

...Name a bankrupted nation please.

The US is financially beholden unto the Federal Reserve after it [the US] officially declared bankruptcy on March 9, 1933 through the Emergency Banking Act.

The US is currently many trillions of dollars in debt and our main shareholders are China and Japan. Woe be the day when they decide to collect on this debt

I think you're confusing blind greed with innovativeness and the desire for prosperity. They are very different things.

 

[D_Andreas Sukov]

What a doofus. Greed is also why we have cell phones, Plasma TVs, Prozac, jet engines, wireless internet, dishwashers, tile roofs that last 100 years, electricity to our doors, chain saws, potable water, Vancomycin, viagra, cosmetics, hair extensions, precision machine tools, scuba equipment, mountaineering equipment, ski resorts, white water rafting, sport fishing, bicycles that are as advanced as cars from 80 years ago, motorcycles, microwave ovens, blu ray players, 3D movies.

Name a bankrupted nation please.

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This is what it takes to be a pyrotechnician.

To be a surgeon it takes and 4 year undergrad degree, 4 years of med school and at least 4 years of residency.

Which might be more difficult to obtain?

typical far right twat. Do you have no desire t help your fellow man? do you only cook dinner for your family so your partner will fuck you or pay you? What you say is that the human emotion of compassion and desire to help are non existant. People like you are why the world is in the state it is in.

 

[Wyldgusechaz]

typical far right twat. Do you have no desire t help your fellow man? do you only cook dinner for your family so your partner will fuck you or pay you? What you say is that the human emotion of compassion and desire to help are non existant. People like you are why the world is in the state it is in.

The state that the world is in is fantastic. I would love to take some credit for how great the world is today and I can from what i do to make it better. It has never been better. If this is miserable living lay it on me more and more. Give me one moment in time when life was better than it is today. Pick any time in human history when things were not as fabulous as they are today.

The profound advancement in labor saving consumer devices in the last 30 years is awe inspiring. The yoke/darkness of communism is gone from Eastern Europe (thank you Ronald Reagan) Go back 60 years and heart disease and cancer were killing people by the droves along with people gassing other people. Go back 90 years and a simple cut could kill you. You chopped trees by hand. You cooked food by wood stove and influenza killed 50 million people across the earth. Travel between countries took days not hours.

Human existence is so fruitful and easy relative to other eras we have to make up miseries like global warming to be fearful of. We have food every where you turn. They tried to scare us with the H1N1 virus and that was a big fraud.

Go back 200 years and you had to cut down 6000 trees by hand to farm a scrap of land.

Tell me what misery we have today that was not way worse a few years ago. Be accurate and provide links please.

 

[D_Andreas Sukov]

the state of the world is fantastic? and im the doofus?

Ok, we have Human Rights violations all over the shop

AIUK : Gaza's civilians still unable to rebuild one year after 'Operation Cast Lead'

thrid world debt. and the Rich countries themselves in so much debt that pubic services are to be cut.

BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | We'll make cuts, Brown tells TUC

wars still going on in countries you couldnt pronounce.

List of ongoing conflicts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Isreali forces can shoot an enemy in a crowded street from miles away, but the Combined forces of the world cant find Osama Bin Laden?

do you not feel with these new innovations that the world has become less moral, lazier, corupt? if you cant see that then you are mad

 

[mitchymo]

Greed is not good, its great!


NO IT'S NOT, your hogging all the narrow minded threads.

Quite frankly i think 'wheelchair users are just lazy' would be far more entertaining!

 

[Ethyl]

I believe you are confusing dishonesty with greed.

No, i'm not. Greed most often leads to dishonesty. There are people who enjoy making money who aren't greedy.

Certainly money is not the only motivation but its the main one or there would be no need for patent law.

Patent law is there to protect the patent and the inventor not because people want to make money. I know a patent lawyer. Try again.

Most people are envious of wealth because they are not ambitious enough or shrewd enough or lucky enough to have significant wealth of their own. And envy is much more insidous sin than greed.

Translated: all poor people are envious and all rich people are greedy. What a myopic view of finance.

I will use another example. I bought a really nice car 9 years ago for $48K. I just bought another car for $50k and its so much better than the other its amazing. The new one has Iphone integration, navigation, park distance control, better gas mileage and insane horsepower. I plugged my Ihone into it and the car magically put all my addresses into the Nav system so all my destinations are now pre programmed. I find that amazing. Automotive engineers sat around for the past 9 years and made a car that is mind boggling in its craftsmanship and is cheaper in real dollars. They did it to beat out the other car makers and sell more cars and make more money and wealth and I benefitted immensely from their greed.

No. You benefited from their expertise, precision, attention to detail, and experience.

Only 50K? With your touted income that sound like you're being cheap.

A desire to be wealthy doesn't always equal greed- that's a common misconception. Pure greed usually ends up causing more harm than help. Why not adopt a mindset towards "Enlightened Self-Interest". That way, everyone benefits

True dat.

Name a bankrupted nation please.

Iceland.

I see someone is too busy with greed to read the news.

 

[Drifterwood]

Goosey, you just prove that even an over inflated view of worth can't buy what you'll never get.

 

[slurper_la]

Only someone as small-minded, pedantic and noisome as you are could confuse things like imagination, ambition, creativity and drive with greed.

I love you!

 

[slurper_la]

don't mind star she'd argue with a fencepost

and the fencepost would win!

 

[B_VinylBoy]

How typical of the neocon to associate advancements in technology with greed. Spoken like a true failure of science.

 

[1kmb1]

The state that the world is in is fantastic. I would love to take some credit for how great the world is today and I can from what i do to make it better. It has never been better. If this is miserable living lay it on me more and more. Give me one moment in time when life was better than it is today. Pick any time in human history when things were not as fabulous as they are today.

The profound advancement in labor saving consumer devices in the last 30 years is awe inspiring. The yoke/darkness of communism is gone from Eastern Europe (thank you Ronald Reagan) Go back 60 years and heart disease and cancer were killing people by the droves along with people gassing other people. Go back 90 years and a simple cut could kill you. You chopped trees by hand. You cooked food by wood stove and influenza killed 50 million people across the earth. Travel between countries took days not hours.

Human existence is so fruitful and easy relative to other eras we have to make up miseries like global warming to be fearful of. We have food every where you turn. They tried to scare us with the H1N1 virus and that was a big fraud.

Go back 200 years and you had to cut down 6000 trees by hand to farm a scrap of land.

Tell me what misery we have today that was not way worse a few years ago. Be accurate and provide links please.

good point, life is better today. because of the laws and organizations put in place to restrict greed. (child labor, sec, fda, ect)

i wonder what life would be like if we eliminated even more greedy business practices?

 

[B_Hung Jon]

Money (and the greed for money) is the root of all evil.

 

[B_starinvestor]

Money (and the greed for money) is the root of all evil.

I'm not so sure. Charles Manson wasn't in pursuit of money or greed. Jeffrey Dahmer wasn't in pursuit of money. The Black Dahlia didn't care about money.

Atta didn't want money. Timothy McVeigh didn't care about money. He didn't demonstrate a greed for riches.

The Boston Strangler, Ted Bundy, Ku Klux Klan, Skinheads.....need I go on?

Money and greed surely are not the root of all evil.

 

[1kmb1]

I'm not so sure. Charles Manson wasn't in pursuit of money or greed. Jeffrey Dahmer wasn't in pursuit of money. The Black Dahlia didn't care about money.

Atta didn't want money. Timothy McVeigh didn't care about money. He didn't demonstrate a greed for riches.

The Boston Strangler, Ted Bundy, Ku Klux Klan, Skinheads.....need I go on?

Money and greed surely are not the root of all evil.

i thought Charles Manson was pissed because he couldnt get a record deal?

 

[Wyldgusechaz]

No, i'm not. Greed most often leads to dishonesty. Is that really true? I sincerely question that. There are people who enjoy making money who aren't greedy.


Patent law is there to protect the patent and the inventor not because people want to make money. I know a patent lawyer. Try again.

MB if you are going to take a patent attorney home from a bar and fuck him (or her) at least pay attention during the pillow talk. Because thats what it sounds like you did. What in heaven's name are they trying to protect? Their good name? Seriously. They are trying to protect their financial interst and what they can gain from their ingenuity. It is ONLY about money, you poor naive thing.

Translated: all poor people are envious and all rich people are greedy. What a myopic view of finance.

If you and other neo rads are not envious of rich people's money, why do you begrudge them their greedy spoils and why do you want to tax them to pay for your healthcare and mortgage defaults and retirements? If you did not covet their wealth you would not want them taxed, would you? But you are at heart a very covetous, grasping little bunch, aren't you? You are as bad as those you chastise.

No. You benefited from their expertise, precision, attention to detail, and experience.

Oh good grief. Why did they do it? Why did they apply their expertise, precision, et al.? To sell more cars and make more money. Other wise why do they even charge for a car. They could do all those things for free and still get plenty of emotional strokes for their efforts.

Only 50K? With your touted income that sound like you're being cheap.

Cars are not my thing. But my greedy acquisitive desires extend to trips to far off places is, like Paris, Germany, the Seychelles and South Africa for the World Cup (all this year). However i do have my greedy heart set on a BMW M3. Just a very sexy looking and driving car. 440m HP. Wow!



True dat.



Iceland.

I see someone is too busy with greed to read the news.

I did forget about Iceland. The standard of living there is so bad it must be horrific.

Like this horrific: >>>According to Statistics Iceland and Eurostat the Icelandic per capita volume index at the level of Gross Product is among the highest in Europe, 29% over the EU25 average.<<

How painful.

 

[B_starinvestor]

i thought Charles Manson was pissed because he couldnt get a record deal?

LOL, wel he didn't kill any of the Beach Boys now did he?

 

[houtx48]

what about all you greedy cock whores in here?

 

[Ethyl]

If you and other neo rads are not envious of rich people's money, why do you begrudge them their greedy spoils and why do you want to tax them to pay for your healthcare and mortgage defaults and retirements? If you did not covet their wealth you would not want them taxed, would you? But you are at heart a very covetous, grasping little bunch, aren't you? You are as bad as those you chastise.

A neo-rad? What the eff are you smoking? Please stop being greedy and share. I promise I won't suggest we tax your abundance of whatever it is.

What makes you think I begrudge anyone their income? I have a wide social circle which includes people of most income levels. Try again.

I did forget about Iceland. The standard of living there is so bad it must be horrific.

Oh indeed. Iceland is a notoriously progressive culture with a new government established including a female prime minister who is openly gay. The majority of the population speaks Icelandic (a version of Old Norse), English and Danish as well as Swedish and Norwegian. They have a rich history and culture infused with literature. Anyone who considers themselves well-read should pick up one or two of the Icelandic Sagas. Oh, and you'll enjoy this tidbit: The Human Development Index indicated they were third on a list of "Very High Human Development" and recently ranked 4th happiest country in the world. It's not Denmark, granted, but still....maybe you should visit sometime. :biggrin1:

what about all you greedy cock whores in here?

I know! We're such bitches for being so greedy. After all, you guys don't benefit from that. Oh, wait...

 

[Wyldgusechaz]

A neo-rad? What the eff are you smoking? Please stop being greedy and share. I promise I won't suggest we tax your abundance of whatever it is.

What makes you think I begrudge anyone their income? I have a wide social circle which includes people of most income levels. Try again.



Oh indeed. Iceland is a notoriously progressive culture with a new government established including a female prime minister who is openly gay. The majority of the population speaks Icelandic (a version of Old Norse), English and Danish as well as Swedish and Norwegian. They have a rich history and culture infused with literature. Anyone who considers themselves well-read should pick up one or two of the Icelandic Sagas. Oh, and you'll enjoy this tidbit: The Human Development Index indicated they were third on a list of "Very High Human Development" and recently ranked 4th happiest country in the world. It's not Denmark, granted, but still....maybe you should visit sometime. :biggrin1:



I know! We're such bitches for being so greedy. After all, you guys don't benefit from that. Oh, wait...

I know Icelandic women are very hot I assume the men have that same viking look. I should go there once and get my greedy mitts on a few.

 

[Ethyl]

I know Icelandic women are very hot I assume the men have that same viking look. I should go there once and get my greedy mitts on a few.

My first pillaging was from a Viking. Quite memorable. :wink: