The current financial meltdown is the result of unrestrained greed
PYTHAGORAS said that there are three kinds of people, who can be classified by analogy to those who attend the games: competitors, spectators, and those who come to buy and sell under the stands. He likened philosophers (a term which for him included mathematicians and scientists) to the spectators, imputing a certain superiority to them, especially over those bartering and haggling.
The current global financial meltdown makes it easy to feel like one of Pythagoras’s spectators – if one is not directly involved or affected. Greedy speculators and bankers, wild…
