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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (920865)	2/12/2016 7:01:40 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1576593

That's a somewhat silly question for two reasons. First of all when did I call for "w/o government"? No one is championing anarchy here. If instead you mean without big government or something like that enables and empowers greed. Making the question more general, just "how do you reign in greed" - Well to an extent you don't. Greed can be defined different ways, some of them positive. The positive aspects you don't really want to reign in much. If your personal definition would limit it more to the negative, or you change the question to how do you reign in the negative aspects of greed? Well the extent you can is probably limited. Greed, including its negative aspects, will always be with us. How do you get that limtied extent? Competition, government intervention against force and fraud, and when appropriate against large externalities like pollution, while at the same time not trying to direct the economy, or pick winners and losers in it. Does that get rid of greed, not it doesn't, not by any definition of greed, but it keeps it in check just about as good as anything can while also preserving freedom and opportunity and helping to maximize the potential for economic growth.

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