Greed Disease

This book is about the impact of greed on our livelihood and on the sustainability of our planet. Greed exercised by the rich and powerful and the behemoth corporations provides challenging obstacles for the working class of our society - growing income and wealth inequality and exacerbating worker exploitation. Even worse it endangers our planet threatening the life-sustaining habitat that enabled life and which is essential in sustaining life. Without corrective action the ultimate result does not look promising for our future. For most of us members of our society as we go about acquiring the essentials for living a comfortable life doing business is not a level playing field. Dealing with the normal deception and dishonesty in advertising and marketing and navigating the cleverness of the rentier element of society can be treacherous experiences for the powerless working-class. Kind of like swimming with sharks. Lots of books have been written about the world of finance the banking industry and the enormous power and influence that has silently matriculated to those who occupy the control of money. After all some say that money is the root of all evil. H. L. Mencken is attributed to having said: If they say it isn't about money it's about money. Someone said: money talks and baloney walks. When bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he robs banks he replied: because that's where the money is. Willie isn't around to rob banks any longer but there are lots of others ready willing and able - not with a gun perhaps but in more clever ways. This book is about money and the power and influence that accompany money the quest for power and influence that drives the quest for money and the changing mindset of humans as evolution progressed from a quest for food shelter and safety to an incessant search for and capture of comfort and pleasure. It is about the impact of the growth in population from a few thousand peop