With "free market" dogma held as it is as unquestionable, the "magic hand of the market" worshipped as it is, "Greed is God" seems appropriate.

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Philanthropy is good. Marketing dressed up like philanthropy is annoying...but nothing new.

Greed is expected; its absence provokes suspicion.

"Greed" is the downfall of growth....

Recent philanthropy by billionaires tries to make up for the damage either by exporting blue-collar jobs in the 80's or white-collar jobs in the 90's or call centers in the 2000's. It also tries to make up for the damage done by failing to prevent or breakup near-monopolies like Microsoft in the 80's or ClearChannel in the 90's or Fox News in the 2000's, not to mention the failure to help labor in general or unions specifically in a time when the minimum wage is about 1/4 less what it was in 1968 after inflation. The top 1%, especially the top 0.1%, has benefitted from the last ten-to-thirty years at the cost of the rest of America. Tax all money made above $10M at 90%, like we did to money above $3M in today's money until LBJ to pay for WWII and the Korean war, and it will wipe out the national debt in ten years; corporations are people, so it would force breakups to stay under the cap, but hiring people and donating to 501(c)3 non-profit corporations would still be written off. Start taxing income above $106K and the kill date on Social Security jumps from 2037 to indefinite; if the asteroid Apophis enters the "keyhole" in 2029 then hits the Pacific Ocean or 2036, it won't matter anyway. Stop letting corporations run out of post office boxes in the Cayman Islands, though they do have a lot of business school students there, and corporate taxes will start to resemble the 35% their apologists complain about yet so few pay. Robert Reich is awesome, but his NBR interview last night ignores the need to pay off the $2.5T in 2001 tax cuts and the $3T illegal wars.

Greed is not just a good idea; it's the law.