Greed has had more of a negative influence on American society than a positive influence.

1) What makes me think China is not greedy? I would first like to address that China does have some greed, but this is not the driving factor of their success. China's labor is a lot cheaper than American labor. Chinese consume 1/13th of the energy Americans do, that's another way I know China is not as greedy. The cost of Chinese factory labor is a paltry 64 cents an hour. With the vast population, cheap labor, and discipline the country is able to have a thriving economy. Your Indian and Tibet examples are fallacies. Tibet is a bordering country, and India is a country very close country. It is natural in nature for different species to compete with each other if they live in a similar area and use the same resources. But the amount of countries U.S. takes advantage of is what sets it apart. U.S. uses Central America, South America, and Southeast Asia. These locations are not nearby the U.S.. It is a much better example of greed due to the fact that U.S. takes advantage of countries across the globe vs China who takes advantage of nearby countries. Although, China hasn't invaded India. Look at how many troops we have in the middle east. My opponent confuses desire and greed. In a thesaurus desire and greed are not synonyms for a reason. Greed is an excessive or rapacious desire, basically desire times 10. My opponent never brings up any direct examples of how greed has advanced our society. Many of the inventions were to fix problems, such as the telephone. The inventor, Alex Graham Bell, didn't want to make huge profit off of an invention. He wanted to make life easier so he and other people can communicate and unite the world more. Companies wanted to buy the invention to make profit. This is where the greed comes into play. So my answer is yes, to solve problems is an extreme motivation to do a job. 2) This is a common Anti-Communism argument, which is not what I am debating about. I do not believe a janitor should get the same pay of a CEO. I believe the richer should be taxed more, but who are the people who fund laws? Rich people fund laws. So, why would a rich person want to fund a law that taxes them more? It's simple logic why the rich get richer. Just because we value jobs differently is not a justification for 1% of America owning 42% of the wealth. 3) Your logic here is invalid. So it is a necessity because we do not have a research, we terrorize another country to get the oil resource we need? There are other ways of energy, such as solar reflection. In solar reflection we can reflect sunlight against water, which would turn the water into steam. Scientists are smart enough to invent new ways just like we have in the past. Just because we don't have enough of it doesn't mean we should take it. This causes the power of countries to become more unbalanced. Maybe one country will benefit, but how does this have a worldly benefit? This is a perfect example of how America's greed has a negative impact on the world. 4) This argument is an obvious fallacy. Does my opponent not realize how much more food America consumes more than India and China? China has 1,346,580,000 people, India has 1,210,193,422, and the U.S. has 312,325,000according to the most recent census. America has way less people than India and China and consumes way more food and wastes more than both the countries per person. Putting the three countries next to each other in food greed is an obvious fallacy due to the dominant amount of food American people consume. My opponent has completely disregarded how greed is causing a depletion of resources in America. A good example is how a coyote consumes a rabbit population. If the coyote consumes too many rabbits at a time, the rabbits will become extinct. If the rabbits become extinct, the coyote will become an endangered species and will try to look for another prey, but will interfere with the new prey's predator. This will cause a corruption in nature and a possible extinction of both species. This is exactly what America is leaning towards. If we keep consuming the amount of food and resources there will be very little left and who knows how many countries we will attempt to take from to feed our people? Recycle, distribute money, use alternative sources of energy, consume less sources, and don't take other resources from different countries by force and this corruption greed has created can be avoided. Vote Pro Sources http://visualizingeconomics.com... http://www.businessweek.com...