Greed is NOT an equivalent and absolute attribute of success.
Greed is a sin as common with leftists (e.g., Clintons) as with success in business and rooted in selfishness and ego. It is part of the fallen human condition.
Success in business has, I would say, far more in common with the trait of self-sacrifice, kindness and generosity to those less well-off than greed.
Self-interest and selfishness are not the same thing. Selfishness is always wrong, and I’d say it abounds more amongst liberals and Marxists than free-enterprise folk.
Self-interest and generosity/kindness towards those less well-off are often found together, and are surely not mutually exclusive.
Is Trump greedy? Motivated by greed? I dare say we cannot judge. He clearly is kind and generous to many, especially his hard-working employees, who almost universally commend him.
I see a man rather driven by two things: success in whatever he does, and seeing things done well and done right - and done quickly. Can he be arrogant, and narcissitic? Clearly he can.
In contract, Obama is inherently a narcissist and arrogant - they are core elements of hi nature.
I don’t believe that to be true of Trump.
PS: I started and owned several successful businesses - and often paid my employees more than I paid myself.....and often paid my employees when I paid myself nothing. It was the right thing to do - and almost always ended up benefitting the companies.
I was just thinking of my grandchildren, whose word for “greed” is “need”, as in the phrase “I NEEEEED it!”
They’re very young and were by proxy big Hillary fans, just in reflection of their parents views, but my thought was that their overriding concerning for their own personal wants and needs puts them on a collision course with the liberal ideology they are being imbued with.
Just a thought! I do take it seriously, but I don’t take it as dogma by any means. I know it’s complicated.