UNIVERSAL GREED

We have a great country in many ways:  military, government, education, healthcare, leisure time, entertainment, sports, retirement, and freedoms that few other global countries enjoy.

We also have problems like wealth/poverty gap, corrupt politicians, criminals, greedy businesspeople and individuals, obesity, lazy citizens, uneducated and uninformed masses, fake news, and con artists trying to rip people off.

From 1960 until 2025, it seems to me that our problems have increased, and our positive qualities have decreased.

It is my opinion and probably my opinion only that the reason for this flip-flop is GREED.

Americans are pushed in high school to go to college for the sole purpose of using that degree to EARN MORE MONEY.  I was in high school from 1962-1966.

When I was in grad school 1979-1981, we were taught that engineers were being taught the BUILT IN OBSOLESCENCE CONCEPT which was design products so they only last 3-5 years so that REPEAT BUSINESS is force and companies will increase their revenues.

Computer technology grows so fast that new computers must be purchased every 3-5 years also.

Greed via money is at the heart of our problem as to why we are having these problems.  Let's make as much money as we can before we die.

NO ONE HAS EVER LOOKED AT THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF ADOPTING THAT PHILOSOPHY OUTSIDE OF THEMSELVES.

Unintended consequences are always a bitch...