Moral economy

[Boogeyman]

A moral economy, in one interpretation, is an economy that is based on goodness, fairness, and justice.

Greed, An excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth.

the second will never allow for the first to work...

[CuteOldGuy]

What do you suggest?

[Boogeyman]

Fuck em all and go off the grid.

[CuteOldGuy]

Originally Posted by Boogeyman

Fuck em all and go off the grid.

Nothing to argue with there.

[oden]

So a baker that has to get up at 3:30am is greedy because she makes more than someone who is taking orders at McDonalds?

[Boogeyman]

Originally Posted by oden

So a baker that has to get up at 3:30am is greedy because she makes more than someone who is taking orders at McDonalds?

Nope, but special interest groups in bed with politicians who are only worried about more money is.

[lustylad]

Originally Posted by Boogeyman

Greed, An excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth.

Well, we can probably agree on the proper definition.... then we just need to identify who best exemplifies it.

GREED - One of the Seven Deadly Sins, greed is usually described as an insatiable desire for wealth. If that is true, when taxpayers who want to keep their hard-earned money are compared to politicians who want to take it from them to feed their uncontrolled spending, whose appetite better warrants the word insatiable?

GREED = INSATIABLE APPETITE FOR MONEY AND WEALTH = SPENDTHRIFT POLITICIANS!!!

[nevergaveitathought]

Seems to me quite a few people who vote dim exhibit at least two of the seven deadly sins - greed and sloth

[JD Barleycorn]

Originally Posted by Boogeyman

A moral economy, in one interpretation, is an economy that is based on goodness, fairness, and justice.

Greed, An excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth.

the second will never allow for the first to work...

I strongly disagree with YOUR definition of greed. "deserve", that is a very loaded word. Some people deserve nothing but we won't let them starve to death. An excessive desire....some people start out with very big plans that they don't let you in on. Suppose some guy decided that he wanted to live in space (or under the ocean) and he spends the better part of his life growing his wealth for just that purpose. Who is anyone to say that his dream is wrong or that his desire for wealth is excessive. It may not be enough or it may be just right. Of course, many of our great artifacts in this country were built by wealthy men. If they only had what they needed then we would not have the Guggenheim Museum or Carnegie Hall. Not everything good is created by government.

[CuteOldGuy]

In a free market economy, greed is a good motivator. In order to make more money, the greedy person has to provide a better product or higher quality service at a lower price. However, in our current economy, which is not free market, people get rich through fraud, bribery, and flat out theft. Not all, for sure, but most at the very top got there that way. On a small business level, it still works the good way, for the most part.