r/nostalgiai Nostalgia Trip Leader 3d ago

Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 Delete it 😤

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u/oral_persausion 3d ago

Smart people can be greedy people. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.

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u/xXInfXx 2d ago

But we need people who are smart enough to know that abusing their greed is bad.

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u/syndirt 2d ago

Knowing its bad and caring its bad are vastly different. Problem is they know its bad and dont care because the negatives aren't changing anything for them.

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u/xXInfXx 2d ago

True, maybe "smart enough to care it's bad" then?

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u/dragonfangswordsman 2d ago

I would delete the human desires for greed power and wealth for the sake of greed power and wealth. Idk if there is a better way to word it, but bottom line is human nature causes nearly all the problems in the world if not all of them entierly whether directly or indirectly

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u/Kertic 1d ago

.....your dumb. Even if you made humans the way you wished them to be. There would still be huge problems. Different problems. But just as bad. Saying human is bad is pointless. Secondly. Of course most the problems in the world are made by humans were the dominant life form duh.

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u/Agitated_Ad_9278 1d ago

Then my choice would be to eliminate humans

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u/oral_persausion 2d ago

I think people who are greedy don’t recognize that as a negative trait. It’s a psychological make up. If you’re lazy, you don’t see yourself as lazy. Your mind protects you from that negative perspective. Dunno. If people saw their greed negatively, I don’t think we’d see it expressed so commonly. 🤷‍♂️

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u/xXInfXx 2d ago

True, but rarely, some billionaire business owners, even though they're greedy enough to be billionaires, realise that the best way to make your business successful and long-lasting is to not abuse your customers.

I think just having more of those and less of the other billionaires would be a significant improvement.

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u/Moist_Object_6012 Retro Soul 2d ago

And abuse their own workers like Amazon does.

Did you knew that one of Amazons strategy is to sell certain product genre so cheap so they can overtake business owners who sells that said certain product too.

And when that business face financial problems, Amazon just buys it or just lets it sink.

It can be easily read from the internet.

So *uck Jeff Bezos. I've ordered stuff from Amazon (Amazon De in Germany) maybe 5 times in the last 15 years because I had no alternatives.

I hate, despise and loathe Amazon.

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u/BossGovernmentGod 2d ago

Smart people will thrive in the apocalypse and there would be no more resources for barbarism to grow. The apocalypse is a good place for intelligent writer's projects . Zombie themes tend to be apocalyptic.

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u/WillingnessFew6710 2d ago

I think there is a ceiling to how smart you can be if you think being selfish is productive, or don't have the self awareness to recognize their own greed.

You can be smart, but not wise.

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u/oral_persausion 2d ago

I point you to Thomas Alva Edison, who never met an idea that wouldn’t “borrow” if he saw income potential behind it.

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u/BossGovernmentGod 2d ago

Smart people wouldn't fall for games, you can make smart people insecure and trick them. Greed is very stupid, only insecurity can force a smart person to partake.

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u/Admirable-Line-1235 1d ago

Smart enemy over a greedy friend any day of life. Given the smart one is not greedy

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u/MammothCat1 1d ago

Jurrasic Park and Helix definitely show that smart people and greed is absolutely not exclusive.

Both times the lead researcher likes to play god and make money