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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs it the greed that makes people stupid? Or is it stupid people who are greedy?
When I look at Trump, Kushner, and Manafort, I see woefully stupid people, but they are greedy as hell. Now, is it because they were stupid first, but then got greedy, and that made them even dumber?
Or, are they greedy people first, and it's that greed that makes them do dumber and dumber things?
Which drives the other, greed? or stupidity?
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)There have been plenty of smart greedy people. Greedy people are just fundamentally emotionally damaged, regardless of their IQ.
Yavin4
(35,445 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)MineralMan
(146,331 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)... thinking goes along with someone with little thought process discipline or exposure to mature thinking
moondust
(20,006 posts)I think the shift from a Main Street economy to a corporatized Wall Street economy over the past 35-40 years, and the focus on short-term profits at any cost, has made both the greed and the stupidity worse. Maybe they drive each other.