At The Money: How Greed Became a Virtue

Masters in Business

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Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

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🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Greed was long seen as a selfish vice, undercutting our happiness and our life satisfaction. Yet today, the pursuit of money is a driving factor in all of our lives. How did the love of money go from a vice to a virtue?

Paul Vigna is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and a 25 year veteran journalist, as a reporter, editor, and photographer, covering the cryptocurrency sector, bitcoin, other digital and blockchain-related technologies. He is the author of “The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin.”

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