![]() Most people who create massive wealth do so by being of massive service to others… ![]() There’s a fact about most wealth creators that is ignored because it doesn’t make them convenient villains for children’s fairy tales… In the last 24 hours, there was an announcement that the Justice Department will now be more active in pursuing individual convictions in cases of corporate fraud - which I think is a step in the right direction in terms of combating what is very dangerous behavior.īut there’s a clean truth that doesn’t get printed, because it doesn’t move papers… Period, end of story.Īnd there’s no doubt there’s soul-sucking debauchery, sociopathic selfishness, and other toxic greed on Wall Street, and in profit-seeking businesses all across the globe. In our “if it bleeds, it leads” brand of yellow journalism, “Wall Street greed” is presented as the sickness of wealth. This belief is ubiquitous in our culture. There’s a commonly mis-quoted Bible verse, thought by many to say, “Money is the root of all evil.” (I’ll get to what it really says in a moment.) ![]() If someone’s greedy? They must be evil…īut Disney is not the only place you’re getting these anti-wealth messages… How do we know someone is evil? Because they’re greedy. If you grew up on Disney (as just about all my readers did), it was hammered into you from a very young age. Pride, arrogance, hubris… Yes, those too. Nearly every single Disney villain is shown as being bad by what? By being greedy. ![]() Although it seems to be stronger now than it was in other eras. It’s actually an ongoing narrative among many human cultures. ![]() There seems to be a nagging belief in our society that wealth is only created through deception, cunning, manipulation, and fraud. Hey Rainmaker, I want to talk about wealth creation, greed, selfishness, and most of all, SERVICE… Is the love of money really the root of all evil? ![]()
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