Wall Street
Apocryphal target of a hostile takeover by apocryphal corporate raider Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone’s 1987 movie Wall Street.
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It was during an extraordinary extraordinary general meeting at Teldar Paper shareholders that Gekko sought to persuade investors that “…greed, for lack of a better word, is good.”
This launched a thousand aspiring political careers from well-meaning teenaged lefties who are now executives at bulge bracket investment banks.
Oliver Stone got it nearly right. But there is a better word for greed that “good”: “inevitable”. Greed is inevitable. If you haven't configured your operation to assume that users will be coming from a perspective of personal enrichment, it’s gonna break.