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{{a|g|[[File:Gecko.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Gordon Gecko, yesterday. He’s looking a bit tired in this photo.]]}} | {{a|g|[[File:Gecko.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Gordon Gecko, yesterday. He’s looking a bit tired in this photo.]]}} | ||
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| rowspan="2" |I loved you in ''Wall Street''. | |||
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:—''Hot Shots, Part Deux'' | |||
Apocryphal target of a hostile takeover by apocryphal corporate raider [[Gordon Gekko]] in Oliver Stone’s 1987 movie ''[[Wall Street]]''. | |||
This launched a thousand aspiring political careers from well-meaning teenaged lefties who are now executives at bulge bracket [[investment bank]]s. | It was during an ''extraordinary'' [[extraordinary general meeting]] at [[Teldar Paper]] shareholders that Gekko sought to persuade investors that: | ||
{{quote|“…greed, for lack of a better word, is good.”}} | |||
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. | |||
{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
*[[Stakeholder capitalism]] | |||
*[[Shareholder capitalism]] | |||
*[[Snowflake]] | |||
*[[Evolution]] | *[[Evolution]] | ||
*[[Corporate action]] | *[[Corporate action]] | ||
Latest revision as of 14:24, 25 October 2023
Apocryphal target of a hostile takeover by apocryphal corporate raider Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone’s 1987 movie Wall Street.
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| WILLARD: | I loved you in Wall Street. |
| HARLEY: |
- —Hot Shots, Part Deux
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 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.
This did not stop the snowflakes of the world forgetting this in the early 2020s.