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http://www.g-r-e-e-d.com/GREED.htm

An essay concerning the origins, nature, extent and morality of this
destructive force in free market economies. Definitions. Paradoxes and
omissions in Adam Smith's original theory permit - encourage - greed without
restraint so that in a very large society over two centuries it has become
an undemocratic force creating precipitous inequalities; divisions in this
society now approach a kind of wealth apartheid, and our values are quite
unlike Smith's: this is an immensely wealthy society but it is not a humane
society.

Wealth and poverty are connected, in fact recent sociological theory shows
our institutions routinely design inequality in, but this connection is
largely avoided in texts and in the media, as is the notion that greed is a
moral wrong. Problems created by greed cannot be solved by technology. We
are also distracted by already-outdated environmental rhetoric, arguments
that scarcities and human suffering follow from abuse of our ecology.
Rather, these scarcities are the result of what people do to people. This
focus opens practical solutions.

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