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Progressive Values Metaphor: Norman Solomon - Water v Bulldozer Norman: Well, progressive values could be likened to water that flows and looks for cracks in the walls that constrain where we can go to, irrigate and nurture our own humanity in social terms. Edwin: And on the conservative side? Norman: I think it’s a bulldozing process in terms of rolling over people and institutions in the service of the quest for outsized profits. What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system.
Greed denotes desire to acquire wealth or possessions beyond the needs of the individual, especially when this accumulation of possession denies others legitimate needs or access to those or other resources. For example, amassing a large collection of seashells would not be considered greed, unless in doing so, the needs of others were jeopardized. Essential to the concept of greed is the awareness that the needs of others are denied, thus rivalrous goods exemplify greed while non-rivalrous goods may not. Greed also often involves using wealth to gain power over others, sometimes by denying wealth or power..... Some Questions To Ponder:
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