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No.
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePa...-Notion-Of-Greed-Is-There-Any-Validity-408809
The word greed invokes a lot of visceral atavistic revulsion, which the very people who have the skills to animate it are the biggest culprits. If they are not, then I will suggest to them that their greed is held in check, because they have lame paws. Mention the word greed in a cocktail party and you are guaranteed an inexhaustible topic of discussion for the period of the fiesta. For the intellectuals, their loathing of their favourite target practice – the greedy capitalist bastard – borders on lunacy. Of all the brouhaha that this word generates it is nothing, but a smoke screen of hypocrisy by its purveyors. A serious dialectical approach will render it meaningless. If we should really take the pain to analyse it dispassionately it will be made obvious that we are all greedy one way or the other. In essence, the word becomes literally an eviscerated diction. For those who will disagree with me, I think they can try a more lethal word – evil. The question is whether they will have the guts to describe an industrialist who is able to create wealth for himself and the benefit of his workers as evil is my million dollar question.
No.
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePa...-Notion-Of-Greed-Is-There-Any-Validity-408809
The word greed invokes a lot of visceral atavistic revulsion, which the very people who have the skills to animate it are the biggest culprits. If they are not, then I will suggest to them that their greed is held in check, because they have lame paws. Mention the word greed in a cocktail party and you are guaranteed an inexhaustible topic of discussion for the period of the fiesta. For the intellectuals, their loathing of their favourite target practice – the greedy capitalist bastard – borders on lunacy. Of all the brouhaha that this word generates it is nothing, but a smoke screen of hypocrisy by its purveyors. A serious dialectical approach will render it meaningless. If we should really take the pain to analyse it dispassionately it will be made obvious that we are all greedy one way or the other. In essence, the word becomes literally an eviscerated diction. For those who will disagree with me, I think they can try a more lethal word – evil. The question is whether they will have the guts to describe an industrialist who is able to create wealth for himself and the benefit of his workers as evil is my million dollar question.
