Our lives are better for having cheap clothing, but not by having clothing that costs $10 to manufacture, distribute, and sell at retail being sold for $250. That is greed. Somewhere in there in the costs for that $80 blouse I'm sure there's enough money to pay the worker who made it more than the $0.10 that the worker earned while making it.
+1.
One of the
most horrible examples of capitalistic greed is our pharmaceutical/health-insurance industry. I list them together, since they're in bed together, completely. It's ridiculous that there are medications on the market, which people desperately
need, that see a markup of 1,000% to (in some cases) up to 8,000+% their cost-of-production. There's a happy-medium in there somewhere, wherein the companies could make healthy profits, yet still make medications moderately affordable for people. But
greed is the antithesis of caring about others; instead, it is self-aggrandizement in its most despicable form.
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