Comment by throwawaymaths

You can't be totally selfish and function in a capitalist society though. To obtain capital at some level you have to provide something that someone else wants.

> It also pushes people to hoard

you don't get really rich by hoarding. you get rich by investing in others.

> short trading especially

no. short trading is the least greedy form of investment. your gains are hard capped and your downside risk is unbounded. long trading has unbounded upside and hard capped downside. if you are shorting aside from exceptionally weird cases, you are acting on information you perceive that other people dont see (like you think the CEO is defrauding the public) and you are praying to god nobody bails out the company.