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> greed overpowering logic

Isn't that the best kind of greed ? Greedy logical people make more money than illogical non greedy people.



Greed is anticorrelated with logic as it is usually a vice that causes poor decisions made by overweighing possible gains and minimizing possible losses. It is a non rational mode of human weakness, and can even be correlated with evil ie. Nestle and formula / water fiasco, Microchip companies hushing fab workers with birth abnormalities/ health issues


There are greedy algorithms in computing that make sense sometimes.


We are referring to monetary greed here. Depending on what the resource's value is (cheap CPU cycles), yes, greed can make sense.




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