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Greed, Desire, and the Universal Need for Master Hsing Yun's Humanistic Buddhism: A View from the United States
Greed. We all know greed is a problem. U.S. citizen Bernie Madoff’s successful investment fund attracted wealthy investors. Every year his returns on investment were much larger than those of other funds. In the end it turned out that he was not investing his customers’ money at all. Instead, he was running a Ponzi or “pyramid” scheme, paying off the investors who withdrew their money with the money he was taking in from new investors. While the Ponzi scheme was going strong, he was the toast of New York City and highly admired by others in the finance world. When thousands of his customers lost large sums of money, he became the poster boy of greed. Yet of course his customers were greedy too.
Greed, Desire, and the Universal Need for Master Hsing Yun's Humanistic Buddhism: A View from the United States
Greed. We all know greed is a problem. U.S. citizen Bernie Madoff’s successful investment fund attracted wealthy investors. Every year his returns on investment were much larger than those of other funds. In the end it turned out that he was not investing his customers’ money at all. Instead, he was running a Ponzi or “pyramid” scheme, paying off the investors who withdrew their money with the money he was taking in from new investors. While the Ponzi scheme was going strong, he was the toast of New York City and highly admired by others in the finance world. When thousands of his customers lost large sums of money, he became the poster boy of greed. Yet of course his customers were greedy too.
論貪、欲及人間佛教的普世價值——以美國為例
貪婪,我們都知道貪婪是個原罪。由美國公民麥道夫(BernieMadoff)所規劃的投資基金相當成功,吸引不少富裕投資客。每年他總能回饋投資客高於其他基金的報酬,不過最後卻爆出他其實並沒有將資金投入市場,而是仿照龐茲騙局及老鼠會的手法,拿新進投資客的資金作為前批投資客的報酬。龐茲所經營的非法吸金騙局曾經相當火熱,並讓他成為紐約市的明星,受到金融界高度讚譽。不過,一旦客戶得知損失鉅額資金,他頓時淪為貪婪的小丑。當然,局中的參與者也是貪婪的俘虜。