I believe your speaking of guilt, not greed. BTW what is so important earning anything, people do in fact reap what was not sowed, happens all the time. Sorry you didn’t like my metaphor, if you are a women I would understand.
I don't know who the moron is who coined the phrase "Greed is Good", I'm sure a Freeper knows, but he/she must have been a left wing, coke sucking, hedonistic ingrate.
What's wrong with taking what you haven't earned? Probably because someone else earned or produced it. It is generally theft. And as far as I'm concerned, justice should be weigh 250 grains and be delivered at 2900 fps.
There are two types of people in this world, those who produce wealth, and those who take. The "Greed is Good" BS is attempt to legitimize non-productive incompetents in their quest for high priced nookie. It entwines material lust and gluttony with profit motive and entrepreneurial ambition. And as far as losers who surrender their ethics to a chuby, they never had it in the first place. (from personal experience, Hey I was an amoral 17 yearold once)
With that said, I'm only taking exception to a cultural catch phrase you quoted, not accusing you or being a pissy moralist.
What you did do, though, is illustrate the materialistic foundation of liberalism.