When you see that greed is good for some but we all inhabit the same planet where wealth is not been distributed as it should be and individuals and specially companies(WHICH ARE MADE AND RUN BY HUMANS TOO) don´t care about destroying the environment as there is money involved,etc.
2007-11-18 13:59:53 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Economics
Remember that excuses like :it is a system ,people do their job;etc are more excuses about the same idea of selfishness and being careless to what surrounds us ie. other humans and the rest of life on this planet if you understand what I mean.Written,statistical,entrepreneurial matters and ideas all reside in one personal fact and respect for others should prevail for a better world we all have to share unfortunately ,not for worse.
2007-11-18 15:19:55 · update #1
Can we just blame corporations for the above mentioned faults in delivering wealth for more people instead of a few?Note who are becoming the richest people in the world now; a Mexican and an Indian!
2007-11-19 13:46:09 · update #2
Wealth should be distributed in proportion to talent and productive effort, and that's how it is distributed.
Every developed country has environmental laws made by elected officials. B/c environment affects everybody's selfish interests.
2007-11-18 17:34:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greed is good is a mis-characterization of capitalism. Capitalism is a system that produces and allocates resources efficiently without requiring that people not be greedy. However if fails in the allocation of commonly held environmental resources like clean air and water, so governmental intervention is needed. Non capitalist systems have been even more damaging to the enviornment and provides even less for the poor.
Living in a society where people are moral and altruistic is more pleasant but when governments go to far in enforcing "good" behavior you end up with an inneficient totalitarin state,
2007-11-18 17:11:40 · answer #2 · answered by meg 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Capitalism isn't some type of savior--it's just the best that we have, relative to things like communism or totalitarianism. But that's not to say that we should totally abolish the idea of communism in a Capitalist nation like America. Communism focuses on equality for all, benefits for all, and interdependence (I'm not saying that it works, but it's what Communism stands for). We should not be so selfish, because it will not behoove us in the future--we need to consider that people are dependent on each other, and worry about things like poverty or the environment. I think that America, where there is such a huge range between the rich and the poor, is too Capitalist, and there could definitely be some Communist virtues applied---not to say that we'll be a communist nation, we just shouldn't be so capitalist that so many people are suffering (the homeless).
Selfish, I think, could be replaced with wasteful, or spoiled....
2007-11-18 14:11:35 · answer #3 · answered by Lucifer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Honestly, lets understand that today's system is anything but Capitalist. It is Corporatist, since there is very little competition, which allows certain markets to be selfish. Also morally it is wrong to be selfish.
2007-11-18 17:24:40 · answer #4 · answered by austenbosten 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Selfish is a moral term applied to human behavior not to systems of laissez-faire.
These folks you describe are not selfish, nor greedy, rather, they have been taught to make money and that is their job and they are very good at it.
2007-11-18 14:13:25 · answer #5 · answered by Brett T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
distributed as it SHOULD? this isnt some communist country
2007-11-18 14:03:39 · answer #6 · answered by BIGTEX_2 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋