Can We Overcome Greed?

from Wikipedia: Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko, main character of Wall Street and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps“I just don’t see how we can overcome greed,” he said pensively, reluctantly. He wanted to believe it was possible, but evidence stacked up to the contrary during his years of attorney work with people running corporations.

He has plenty of company.

Startling (and popular?) as it may have been in the movie, “Wall Street,” to hear Gordon Gecko declare that “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good,” it’s more interesting to me how often I have heard people with religious affiliations bow to greed’s tight grip over us. No matter that religious institutions around the globe profess God’s power to transform us so that we need not be conformed to this world, when it comes to greed, lots of people doubt that we can create an economy or society that is not shaped by greed.

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