Posted: Sep 24, 2013 8:23 am
Cito di Pense wrote:Predation. Don't forget predation. Instead of scarcity, we talk about competition and grazing capacity. Don't talk about greed and scarcity until you have a bottle of Special Sauce to go with them. They're constructs.
Of course 'they're constructs'. 'Greed' is label for the tendency of people to acquire resources beyond subsistence need. I'm sure we could come up with all sorts of constructs to 'explain' that. My point was simply that 'money makes people greedy' is a particularly naive 'construct'.