i’m sorry. what on earth are you saying? greed has already been defined. greed is not a virtue. greed had a meaning before socialists used it, and attempted to link it inextricably to capitalism, which of course is one of the more enduring modern myths.
“i’m sorry. what on earth are you saying? greed has already been defined. greed is not a virtue”
I’m saying listen closely to the dialogue. He clearly says “for lack of a better word”. You may not agree that redifining it is appropriate, but that’s what’s being done. Oliver Stone is deck-stacking, obviously, poisoning the speech before it even starts. He expects, as is reasonable, for the audience to dismiss him at the inception. Therefore, any concessions he makes to free market philosophy is pure profit. He gets to please its defenders knowing all along the fix is in.