{"id":90447,"date":"2013-05-24T05:58:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T11:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=90447"},"modified":"2013-05-24T05:58:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T11:58:11","slug":"thoughts-on-the-too-easy-use-of-the-word-greed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=90447","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on the Too-Easy Use of the Word \u201cGreed\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cafehayek.com\/2013\/05\/thoughts-on-the-too-easy-use-of-the-word-greed.html?utm_source=feedly\" target=\"_blank\">Don Boudreaux<\/a> looks behind the curtain at the Left&#8217;s favorite word.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While driving yesterday I listened for a while to ESPN radio.\u00a0 Among the topics that the show\u2019s hosts explored was greed \u2013 in particular, the \u201cgreed\u201d of professional sports franchises such as the Washington Redskins and the New York Yankees to produce and sell to fans ever-more logo-ladened paraphernalia.\u00a0 Some of the radio hosts were more sensible than others, but every one of them assumed without question that \u201cgreed\u201d is the appropriate term to use to describe the motivation of owners of pro sports teams to earn more money by supplying more of the likes of baseball caps, jerseys, and jackets emblazoned with team colors and images of team mascots.<\/p>\n<p>All of the hosts agreed that there\u2019s something a bit sleazy and disreputable about the aggressive production and supply of such paraphernalia.\u00a0 In short, it was an all-too-typical shallow discussion of commerce.<\/p>\n<p>For my purposes here I assume (I believe realistically) that professional sports-team owners\u2019 actions to sell more of their teams\u2019 paraphernalia are indeed motivated solely by their desire to earn more money for themselves.\u00a0 But I ask: why are such actions described as \u201cgreedy\u201d?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Boudreaux looks behind the curtain at the Left&#8217;s favorite word. While driving yesterday I listened for a while to ESPN radio.\u00a0 Among the topics that the show\u2019s hosts explored was greed \u2013 in particular, the \u201cgreed\u201d of professional sports franchises such as the Washington Redskins and the New York Yankees to produce and sell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90449,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90447\/revisions\/90449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}