Who did more for the world, Michael Milken or Mother Teresa?

Capitalism, the system that our economy relies on, is based on greed. Individual people try to gain as much money as possible, and in turn spend some of that money. For the rich to spend their money, service industries are needed, creating more jobs. Often the most effective way to become rich is to start an independent business. For a business to get big enough to bring a sizeable income, one person cannot be the only employee. To become rich in this fashion, the need arises to employ others. To satisfy one person’s greed, many others end up being helped along the way.

Greed is the drive for companies to develop the new technologies we enjoy today. Everything fro

m the ridiculously fast computers to the super strong eight-hour lasting pain relievers in your medicine cabinet was developed to satisfy greed. Greed of this sort is a very good thing as related in Oliver Stone’s movie Wall Street, Gordon Gekko explains that "greed in all its forms, greed for life, money, love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind" (Seligman 183). What would be the point of computer companies constantly developing faster and better computer systems if not to ultimately make more money? But by making these better computers, small businesses are better able to increase productivity. The best ways to help your own situation, making better products in this case, always ends up helping others.

With all this talk of large corporations, don’t be mistaken that only rich people’s greed can do any good. The greed of individuals also helps others, but works in reverse. While corporate greed helps individuals, individual

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