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Originally Posted by Indy-Guy
Would someone let me know how much money you have to have before they label you as GREEDY?
It seems to me the answer is when people make more money than the person who is calling someone greedy has.
If the Morse family about 20% into this project had gone belly-up we would not be having this conversation or even talkofthevillages and 80% of us would not be living here also people around here would be saying the Morse family should have ran their business better. I am very thankful that they were successful. I am sure that there were times when the Morse family did not think that this thing was going to fly but it did.
Profit is only a dirty word when the person you are doing business with is getting it. But when you are getting it it is a great thing.
I have a feeling that most of us worked for very profitable companies while we were working and that is what got us here.
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You are right, of course, but I think this misses the point. I have many friends who own, or owned, successful businesses or were officers of large companies, and most of them are good, hororable people in my mind. Two of my children own a very successful business with over 100 employees, and they too are good, honorable people. My guess is that most people who are successful are exemplary individuals. That does not mean that ALL people who run successful, profitable enterprises are above reproach. It seems to me that the people that have decided they don't like the developers have come to that conclusion based on what they have read about their actions, and the lawsuits they have been entwined in, and not on the mere fact of their success or their wealth. It seems that they are rebuffed on the basis that they are jealous, which some may be, but it seems to me that most have legitimate concerns about the ethics of the developers. Again, most don't seem to be attacking the development or the lifestyle that many want to vigerously defend, and it seems to me to be silly to suggest, as some have done, that they leave.