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A Brief Essay About Greed
I want it, I want it more, I want it so much that I pay more.
Take what you value more, give me what you value less.
I'm so greedy that I give you what you value more
to gain from you what I want most.
My greatest value is not what I own
but what I will get when giving to you,
what for you worth more than anything else.
Desires, greed, values, exchanges, happiness
Free marketers,
pursuing a greater value for themselves,
will create a greater value for everyone.
And why so much greed to end the greed?
But what is greed if it is not the the desire to easily acquire?
what we understand to be desireable to satisfy our craving
to try or to possess something?
We all want to experience sensations
to consume or own things, useful or futile, to accumulate for the present
or the future
it's our nature.
The practice of greed in a capitalist society
guides us to endeavor, create, produce, and build to exchange
for what one wants,
for what one still does not have, for what one does not possess sufficiently
for our satisfaction.
Only on those societies whose property rights are inviolable
and the right to freedom is respected,
the greediest of the greedy,
before achieving what they long for,
have to let go of something they possess.
The greedier the individual,
the more he will end up surrendering what is his to gain or desire.
Of all the criticisms made about free markets,
the most common
based on the wrong idea that, in an environment of absolute freedom,
greed,
the supposed vice or sin
that would pervert what it means to be human,
that would get out of control, causing damage to society.
In an environment of absolute freedom and respect for property,
the greed of a few
will be contained by the greed of others,
thereby establishing, through the mutual interest of satisfying desires,
its own limits.
In all voluntary exchange,
greed is present in both sides negotiating
and this will be seen only when the parties deliver to each other
what they consider higher value than what they will have to give up. Therefore,...
the greediest of the greedy is the one who pays more to acquire what is desired.
It is who yields the most that possesses to acquire what he or she does not have. Thus ...
the more greedy somebody may be,
the more value they will have to give.
The greediest will always be the most generous in a free and voluntary exchange.