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by AnimalMuppet 1723 days ago
I absolutely can argue with Gordon Gekko. His "philosophy" is intended to be a caricature of what's wrong, not a serious position.

> "Greed... captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit..."

But see, we don't want the evolutionary spirit. We want our kids to be able to play in the park without worrying about the survival of the fittest. We want cures for diseases. We want social safety nets. We want to live in a civilization, not in a "state of nature"; we want to be humans, not animals.