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Yasir Qadhi

If Everybody Has it, I Need it!

Yasir Qadhi

Muslim Central

Society & Culture, Islam, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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It's that this mind that is considered to be one of the intellectual geniuses of our generation made

0:09.4

One of the points that he brought up

0:11.6

Was that we need to according to him de-stigmatize greed

0:16.9

He said there's nothing wrong with being greedy in and of itself greed

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He said is the driving force of economic growth

0:25.6

Another senior analyst of Wall Street somebody who became famous because he was involved in in the 2008 Wall Street

0:33.5

Crash and in fact the movie was made about him. He famously remarked

0:37.6

Greed for lack of a better word is good. Greed is right. Greed works end quote

0:45.4

Another famous professor of economics in Boston wrote to highly acclaim book entire the spirit of capitalism

0:53.0

In which the argument was made backed up by evidence that the reason why some countries and nations are more successful than others is because of greed

1:04.5

Economic prosperity this intellectual argued strength. It comes from greed. That is why America is a superpower because we are taught to crave to

1:15.0

Euron to desire. We are taught to be better. We are taught to be competitive

1:20.6

now such

1:22.6

Frank sentiments are politically incorrect because religion from time immemorial has frowned upon greed and

1:30.5

Even though it is rare to hear such blunt sentiments the fact of the matter is that the society we live in the capitalist

1:38.9

Economy that we find ourselves in the culture that we're born into and raised in it expresses this reality

1:46.3

Even if it doesn't state it and we subconsciously absorb this paradigm even if we don't state it and preach it in our

1:54.6

Movies in our entertainment in our social lives in the experiences of our friends

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We are indoctrinated to desire things we don't need and to need things we don't desire

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This is the reality of our life when everybody has something we never wanted we never thought about when everybody has it

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We start feeling deprived. I don't have it. Something is incomplete. We might never have even thought about it

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