Greed Is Good?

Absolutely. It may appear super defence yet it is apparent. thanks and Regards.
God Bless Us All.

 

As an antithesis, I am reminded of the court jester who was considered for his superlative performance, the proud (of possession of wealth) King ordered that he would be gifted whatever he demands. He politely and softly in a beseeching manner said that he would be glad if he could be granted total of double of paddy-grain placed in successive squares of the quantity placed in previous square of a chess board starting one grain placed in square one at the top of chess board....... . when calculated the sum was astronomical. the total was sum of 1+2+4+8 +.....................+2*63(2 raised to power 63) that was harvest of over several hundred years in future. The jester humbled the King.
Thanks and Regards.
God Bless Us All.

 

Dear Hariji,

Selfish desire for wealth and power is considered as greed as defined in the dictionary. Frankly, generating wealth by itself will not amount to greed unless a) one tries to earn them through unfair means and b) try to lead a lavish lifestyle. One needs to have the righteousness in earning wealth and attitude of holding wealth as a Trustee and apply them for good use.

The perfect definition of greed from unfair means can be viewed from what Sathyam's founder did to his shareholders. If you need example in the US, Enron is a perfect example. Leading a lavish lifestyle can be seen from many including Ambani building $1billion house or the politicians and some so called Sanyasis leading a grand lifestyle. If you need example in the US, there are many Fund Managers who lead lavish lifestyle.

Luckily, we have so many good examples in the world. In India, Tatas have been very liberal in giving away wealth for noble causes for years. In the US, Gates Foundation is doing a wonderful job to solve the world problems rather than utilizing all of his wealth for personal purposes. Sometimes, execution flaws happen even in such noble actions.

Viswa

 

Well said. Accumulation of wealth in a wrong way or by cheating or acquiring wealth from other's against there will are classic examples of greediness. However working hard for earning more money is definitely not greed. With inflation and the current lifestyle , more is always less!

 

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Ninety percent of the Indian population falls below the poverty line and it is like for these people, that there is isn’t much positive either to think about the future or about savings. When life threatening diseases like kidney failure or cancer strikes them, they have nowhere to go and there is absolutely no help forthcoming from the Government. While the rich can buy a kidney or a liver, the poor do not have any means to lead even a normal life.

Agatha83

 

Absolutely. No where else except India you would find vast disparity in wealth distribution so unevenly. A very small percentage holding Lion's share of Indian wealth and vast majority slog for them for a pittance and the mighty rich hustle the tail of the indigents. Government one after another, schemes plans to enrich the already rich and impoverish the poor and indigents and plan taxes that collects that is ploughed back to those support the party in power. In point of fact, many among India's vast poor, in order to settle or minimise their debt(s), sell of their body parts or choose sterilisation and many agents busy helping them and the doctors for harvesting and selling to affluent NRIs. Illegal Surrogating has increased manifold. this is unity in diversity!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks and Regards. God Bless Us All including India's indigents.

 

Yes right. We as the survivor of this yug that is called kalyug are smarter than god. We r far behind the uncertainty planned by god for us. He needs to think a lot to put us in trouble.