Makes You Wonder...

[Bob Peale]

I was listening to NPR today and there was an interview with David Gates (a writer for Newsweek) about greed.

He said as part of his research he had the library pull the following statistic:

The average income in the US is $35,000.

Wow.

So then he went on to talk about where greed started given that benchmark. Very interesting discussiono, but no resolutions.

 

[The Squid King]

Money is the root of all evil.

 

[sunstruck]

That income is regional though. How did they use that figure in discussin about greed?

 

[Shaq]

Avarice is man's most repulsive trait...

 

[sunstruck]

Let me rephrase. That average is schewed. People in say, Iowa do not make that much. It's biased to the coast lines.

 

[markb325]

Money is the root of all evil.

Actually greed is the root of all evil.

Money is the means as to how we support ourselves and families.

 

[Thrillhouse]

Greed is...
...the reason Capitalism has succeeded for so long.
...the reason Communism could never work.
...the reason Capitalism is now reaching its ugly conclusion.
...the reason Major League Baseball is on life support.
...the reason almost every movie out of Hollywood blows.
...the reason every song on the radio sucks.
...the reason every radio station playing those songs sucks.

Any others?