Second, our closely held world of anxiety rooted in scarcity evokes an ideology of greed. The mantra for that social reality comes from Gordon Gekko’s line in the 1987 film, Wall Street: “Greed is good.” The outcome is a rapacious world in which those who can get do so; those who have get more, and for such greedy appetites, there is then need for cheap labor and the wounding of those who are not fast enough or born well enough or positioned well enough for the rat race. Greed becomes the force
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