Greed is good?

Answer 1

Well no...not if it makes you prize money above human beings & step on people to get to the top. But yes it could be useful if it motivates you to succeed and attain wealth (so long as you're not hurting others to do so.) The law of attraction means that the things you desire & focus on are drawn to you. So if you have a desire for a Ferrari and you ask the universe for it & you believe you can get it & you have unwavering faith, you can get that Ferrari somehow, eventually. But if you engage in negative destructive behaviours (like stealing, lying, cheating) to get what you want then that isn't good & the universe will respond with negative so even if you get what you want, the price (spiritual or otherwise) you pay may be too great.

Answer 2

For many many bodies of thought, greed is indeed good. Some will try to argue the point based on their philosophic perspective, but they are missing the point. Some people believe greed - not just competition, ambition or financial wellbeing - but actual greed to be good. So greed is good to those people. Arguing against that is totally irrelevant.

Gordon Gekko popularized the phrase in Oliver Stone's Wall Street, but the concept has been around for some time, among many capitalists, Randians, Objectivist circles, and select free enterprise types. It is up for you to decide whether their reasoning makes sense to you and for you to establish the value of greed.

Personally, I don't place value on emotions exclusively , good or bad. I place value on outcomes.

Answer 3

Greed helps motivate you, but in the end it makes you go too far and you fall all the way down. A reasonable desire for money isn't greed, it's common sense.

Answer 4

Have to disagree with the "economically yes" answer above. I think it was Bernard Baruch (the Warren Buffet of his day) who said Ihe made his fortune because he always sold his stock too soon. He meant that there was always some rise left in it for someone else to enjoy.

A truly greedy person will eat his seed corn and having nothing for the following season.

Answer 5

NO, greed is the source of all evil, all human suffering, and atrocities.

without greed, people will actually accept fairness as it should be. people won't steal, cheat, or commit murder for money.

what has greed done for us, but ruin our world, and condemn the poor and rich alike.

Answer 6

Efficiencies which may result from greed will ultimately lead to robotic replacements of most jobs, since robots will work 24/7 without pay. Artificial intelligence will eventually lead to computers smarter than humans which will be able to better produce creative works and be able to manage humans more efficiently than any person. In that scenario, if you are not one of the owners of production, you will be left to starve.

Answer 7

Being greedy helps motivates yourself but pushes you on a low path of wanting more all the time.

It very good if you can control yourself.

Answer 8

Economically yes, morally no.

Answer 9

yup