In the 1987 film Wall Street, Gordon Gecko, the protagonist, declares that “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good” and celebrates greediness as an affirmative act in economics. Greediness (not in the moral sense, but in the spirit of acting to maximize singular objectives, as in a greedy algorithm) is at the core of the neoclassical economy. Economists such as Adam Smith, in the eighteenth century, theorized that the individual’s pursuit of self-interest (without a global vision or purpose) benefits society as a whole greatly and renders it prosperous in economy (it’s the theory of the invisible hand).
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