The Economics of Greed

If Barack Obama aspired to be the president of the United States, then I have a right to aspire to make all the money modern economics has to offer. This is basically the economics of greed. Its a cliched fact that without a vision, the destination becomes elusive and without an aspiration ant hills pose as a mighty mountains. Baseline without greed you cannot make money.

By deconstructing what that emotion really means ,you'd find out that Greed is an aspiration to have more of the opportunities that present themselves in everyday life as challenges and otherwise. This year I set out with a personal target of a profit after tax of 20million Naira, to me it looked like a huge sum ,however after my mind had settled on that goal, i started to see opportunities that will make it possible, come my way. If I had set my mind on just enough to get by, get by I would ,leaving out to waste the abundance which my mind could create.
What I have noticed is a change of attitude, now I wake up at 4am cos I know am deficient in what it takes to earn what I want. Also, am burning the 2 ends of the candle because I have a sense of urgency, so by been greedy what you get is a drive - enough to propel you to the moon but at worst to get you to the top of Burj Kalifa.

However, as a man of faith, i sought to understand this new insight from the biblical point of view (I anchor every personal philosophy I develop on the bible to ensure am not self deluding) and I found out that Paul instructs that if the Christians were to demand a thing from God to consume it on their lustful desires they ask amiss, thus the key is not to confuse laziness with modesty. Man was made to have, he was created in abundance to live and enjoy. However he was created to populate the earth as well,showing that all in all, he is subject to his role of preserving the earth. Greed as in aspiration is a good thing but then the ability to conquer ones desires and live in the sustainable view of the world is expedient. Aspire more and more, but consume less and less on the lustful desires which is our human flaw.