Sterman is not talking about greed, selfishness, or some other vice.
The antithesis of all this is selfishness, which is outstandingly the greatest world-wide vice.
Capitalism, in its purest, simplest form, is little more than a Pavlovian response to our basic instincts: greed, selfishness, adoration of profit, and unshackled consumerism.
It may be a function of empathy; we feel badly for the objects of our derision. Or it could be selfishness; we realize people won't like us for nattering on meanly about others.
There is both selflessness and selfishness expected.
It's a different category. And that is more related to nature of love than ordinary selfishness.
The upshot was that, as the researchers predicted, generosity pays-or, rather, the cost of early selfishness is greater than the cost of trust.
Such cadres and leaders must be free from selfishness, from individualistic heroism, ostentation, sloth, passivity, and sectarian arrogance, and they must be selfless national and class heroes; such are the qualities and the style of work demanded of the members, cadres and leaders of our Party.
What many think of as love is really just a form of selfishness — not pure love.
Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell?
We tend to equate jealousy with pettiness and selfishness.
Science shows that donating money -- a financially irrational concept -- often stems from guilt, selfishness, pride or even lust.
For us, the key to intimacy is the sharing and minimization of selfishness.
He is similarly unsparing about the plutocrats and Wall Street luminaries of his day, who he argued had destroyed the innate generosity of Americans and replaced it with greed and selfishness.
But Europe must above all avoid being pulled apart, as some countries tackle ageing better than age is not the enemy of reform: ignorance, selfishness and timidity are.
But for human selfishness, all might prosper.
Sometimes, I feel confused about these two concepts of independence and selfishness in dealing with people and things.
As such, in the end, the game doesn't exactly promote selfishness or selflessness - but a 'reasonable' mix of the duo?
