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What’s Wrong with People?

What’s wrong with people: greed, selfishness, violence, wars, lying, and all the rest, is just the over-the-cliff edge of human … More

controlling, greed, human nature, Jesus, lying, snobs, status, war, what's wrong with people

No One is Rich By Himself

Wealth As I write this, the wealthy elite are meeting in a luxury mountaintop hotel in Davos, Switzerland, wondering why … More

Davos, greed, money, rich, wealth

Painting a portrait of Greed

I’ve been studying usury, aka charging interest, aka four easy payments of $19.95-something we totally take for granted as normal. … More

art-creativity, avarice, greed, Inferno, mammon, Sir Guyon

In the garden: Honeybees and Adam Smith

Today a honeybee was doing her thing in one of the squash blossoms. If you get very still you can … More

Adam Smith, corporations, garden, greed, honeybees, pesticides, tax dodgers

How GREED destroys societies-and always will

History is written through the political prism of the writer. Thus when Rousseau wanted to prove that man in a … More

debt, greed, Hobbes, human nature, Rousseau, slaves, tribes

The Disease of the Heart Gold Cannot Cure

When Montezuma asked Cortez what the big deal was about gold, Cortez answered with more truth than he perhaps intended, … More

Cortez, gold, greed, Rhodes, Rockefeller
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