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"Greed originally came from..."
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 12:12 PM EDT

I hate to point this out... not really... but long before England was even known to exist, greed infected Society.

Rome 2000 years ago had it.

Take a step back another 2000 years, you don't think it was underlying greed that caused the creation of the pyramids via slave labor?

And those examples aren't just "rare blots of greed in humanity". You can find examples of greed afflicting almost all societies in any decade period of time you choose to select. I say almost because there is the potential you will find some small community somewhere at some point in time where the inhabitants lived in mutual comfort and work efforts.

Unlike the tendency of humans to want to equate something like greed to a particular culture... or class... or race... or whatever..... greed, in and of itself, doesn't care. It strikes anyone and everyone (if they let it) regardless of gender or age.

Do the United States have a higher ratio of greed compared with other Countries? I really can't say. I guess that depends on what kind of measuring stick you use. For example, you could say the American Company is exercising greed when:

    Instead of paying $50k a year for an employee in the US
    The company pays $5k a year for an employee of China
But then.... how does the greed of China compare when:
    The going rate of said employee in China is $2k a year
And... what is the effect of all that when you take in local currency rates, local costs of living, etc. which could drastically alter whether or not that $5k a year is actually "wealthier" for the individual compared with the costs of living where the $50k a year invidual is. And then throw in the context where one person views a given situation as acceptable profit margins and another views that instance as extreme profits.

I point that out as a simple example of just how complex it really is to compare "levels of greed". Personally, I think the bottom line is that Societal Blindness I spoke about in another thread:

    The ability of Society to ignore a given type of harm in one instance while trying to stamp out that harm in another instance.
Sometimes it works, but it takes a very, very long time. If people really want to stamp out greed, they have to be willing to stamp out the greed in their own personal lives... and most are not willing to do that.

RAS

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Not just American
Authored by: jjs on Sunday, June 10 2012 @ 08:40 AM EDT
Originated LONG before America - from the Bible (even if you don't believe in
it, it was finally compiled well before America was discovered by Europeans):

"Love of Money is the root of all Evil" - 1 Timothy 6:10


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(Note IANAL, I don't play one on TV, etc, consult a practicing attorney, etc,
etc)

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