[benreesman]

Not adding much except maybe a tiny signal boost: capture.

Capture is the root of all evil in the way that various ancient/sacred texts said that “money is the root of all evil”.

President Truman was so poorly compensated by capture that they both increased the salary and created a pension because of how embarrassing it was that a President suffered personal financial hardship.

We don’t worry about that sort of thing these days.

[brightball]

Fwiw, the quote is actually “the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.”

Essentially greed. If you really boil the root of evil down to its base, I think you’ll find pride is the true root. IMO pride is the root of greed itself too.

[imtringued]

This is kind of funny because Keynes' liquidity preference concept can be loosely translated into a "love for money" but it is about not wanting to let go of money rather than earning it.