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Hi Tom, I think most people (me included) would agree with your last sentence)

Question for you though: which do you think creates more wealth for the most people:

Short-term greed or long term greed?

I don't think there is a difference really: short term greed which has little negative effect on the future is merely good long term greed (since a dollar today is better than a dollar tomorrow) whereas eating the seed for the next harvest isn't really greed, but insanity.

I am not advocating a blind greed simply to get as much as possible damn the consequences but a rational greed based on the understanding that it is better to have than it is to not have.

I would reconsider some of the assumptions in your first statement.

How or what would you define as "rational greed"? If you have an example that would be best since we wouldn't have to discuss in hypotheticals :)

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