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It wouldn't work without greed. Same as any other form of money.

It wouldn't work without greed. Same as any other form of money.

I'm not so sure about that. I've seen plenty of people at the grocery store spending USD in exchange for food who don't appear greedy. I haven't actually ran a survey, though. But I'm mostly confident that USA doesn't run on greed.

Try asking one of the billionaires. Or anyone who works on Wall Street.

Seems like selection bias

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