Word: greed
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People will never be happy so long as their greed exceeds their needs and they don't comprehend the meaning of the word enough...
Twixters expect a lot more from a job than a paycheck. Maybe it's a reaction to the greed-is-good 1980s or to the whatever-is-whatever apathy of the early 1990s. More likely, it's the way they were raised, by parents who came of age in the 1960s as the first generation determined to follow its bliss, who want their children to change the world the way they did. Maybe it has to do with advances in medicine. Twixters can reasonably expect to live into their 80s and beyond, so their working lives will be extended accordingly...
Many commentators see the general decline in sports behavior as consistent with falling standards in society as a whole. What do we expect of sports fans in a nation where episodes of humiliation, greed and win-at-all-costs behavior (from Survivor to My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss) pass for family entertainment? "Incivility, boorishness and crassness are everywhere in the idiot culture that we live in," says veteran NBC sportscaster Bob Costas. "And yet we celebrate all this as edginess. This behavior is encouraged...
...faced down an $11 billion debt when he had no cash to spare. But there is one thing he is unwilling to do: celebrate. Tyco has finished its first solidly profitable year since its notorious former CEO, Dennis Kozlowski, turned the little-known industrial conglomerate into shorthand for greed. But Breen is not planning any parties (toga or otherwise). "If we lost our focus, that would be terrible," he says...
...organize Wal-Mart employees would dramatize the gross disparities in wealth that have come to characterize American society. A public struggle between a CEO who takes home several million dollars a year and his employees, earning a little over the $5.15 federal minimum wage, would demonstrate the kind of greed and exploitation that exists all over the American economy...