I want to give you a quiz. There was a famous line from a movie more than twenty years ago. The line goes like this, “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.”
Do you remember that line? It’s from a popular 1980s film titled, Wall Street. The story revolves around an ambitious young stockbroker, played by Charlie Sheen, and his ruthless, greedy mentor, played by Michael Douglas. Douglas’ character, Gordon Gecko, involves the young stockbroker in an illegal insider trading scheme that ultimately leads to his downfall. The movie reveals the consequences of greed, lust, lying, and cheating.
The most famous scene in the movie occurs when Gecko is addressing a stockholders’ meeting of Teldar paper, a company he has taken over. He is about to “save” it by “downsizing it,” a euphemism for get…