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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.”
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.
This launched a thousand aspiring political careers from well-meaning teenaged lefties who are now executives at bulge bracket [[investment bank]]s.
 
Oliver Stone got it nearly right. But there ''is'' a better word for greed that “good”. It is “''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.