Great point

The problem with Gordon Gecko wasn't his greed, it was his shortsightedness. The business model destroyed future value to pocket a little more today. The destructive approach loses future productivity and creates a more brittle economy with less competition. Are you building something useful and sustainable to get rich? By all means have fun. Destroying something? Does your plan require trickery or only work short term? Maybe you should reconsider.

what's gordon gecko...?

So many problems stem from varying definitions, and basic assumptions that do not align.

If there is corporate "greed", it is almost always state sponsored monopoly and crony capitalism with regulatory moats.

Why do you believe both can't be true at the same time? My kid hitting his sibling doesn't become okay just because I told him he could do it. A corporation acting abusively toward its employees and customers is greedy and evil whether or not the government lets it.

It's the government assistance that removes most of the negative consequences. In a truly free market, competitors who don't treat you like crap would steal market share. The shittiest corporations have the biggest regulatory moats, and government assistance.

Buddhism also gets this wrong and is why the philosophy became a worthless religion of spiritual materialism. It identifies 'greed' as a primary poison and root of suffering, blaming it on an illusory 'sense of self.' But this ignores that for thousands of years, humans have lived under value systems defined by authority, not objective reality. When your medium of exchange is a tool of extraction and inflation, 'greed' isn't just a psychological error… it's a rational response to an unstable, non-energy-backed reality. Bitcoin is the first time in history that the 'value' of your work is anchored in physical laws rather than the whims of authority. To call human behavior 'greed' while ignoring the incentive structure of the system they are forced to inhabit is the true delusion. View quoted note →

Klaus Schwab's WEF puppets perpetuate this myth to control individual freedom.

Unfortunately regulations only work well if those enforcing them have some sort of moral compass.

State "enabled"

For creative destruction to work there cannot be a money printer. Conflicts should be solved at the smallest possible scale so there is never an incentive or a path to become systematically important too big to fail... freedom of speech is integral to creative destruction, the flow of information must be free and fast to work.