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{{a|g|[[File:Gecko.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Gordon Gecko, yesterday. He’s looking a bit tired in this photo.]]}}Apocryphal target of a hostile takeover by apocryphal corporate raider Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone’s 1987 movie ''Wall Street''. | {{a|g|[[File:Gecko.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Gordon Gecko, yesterday. He’s looking a bit tired in this photo.]]}}Apocryphal target of a hostile takeover by apocryphal corporate raider [[Gordon Gekko]] in Oliver Stone’s 1987 movie ''[[Wall Street]]''. | ||
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 bank]]s. | This launched a thousand aspiring political careers from [[Snowflake|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 than “good”: “''inevitable''”. | Oliver Stone got it nearly right, but there ''is'' a better word for greed than “good”: “''inevitable''”. | ||
Greed is ''inevitable''. If you haven’t configured your operation, business, polity, etc., to assume that users will be coming at everything they do, first and foremost, from a perspective of personal enrichment and self-interest, it’s gonna break. | Greed is ''inevitable''. If you haven’t configured your operation, business, polity, etc., to assume that users will be coming at everything they do, first and foremost, from a perspective of personal enrichment and self-interest, it’s gonna break. | ||
This did not stop the [[snowflake]]s of the world forgetting this in the early 2020s. | |||
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*[[Stakeholder capitalism]] | |||
*[[Shareholder capitalism]] | |||
*[[Snowflake]] | |||
*[[Evolution]] | *[[Evolution]] | ||
*[[Corporate action]] | *[[Corporate action]] |