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Need or Greed - The Ferengi Perspective
echodarksided
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My first love will always be business and economics. I love money; greed is eternal. The human term greed is how the humans relate to the Ferengi cultural desire for and pursuit of wealth, status, and power. I use the human term greed in a way educated Human Starfleet Officers would relate to, derived from its original Latin, avarita, which describes the way my species has an inordinate desire to possess wealth, goods, or objects of abstract value with the intention to hoard it for selfish intentions, far beyond the dictates of basic survival and comfort.
The human definition of greed only partially describes what greed truly means to a Ferengi. Most species define greed as a psychological concept describing those with an inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs. They tend to associate greed as a pathological behavior in an obsessive or compulsive context, and many species popularized greed into a negative stereotype of a person with a mentally unstable condition. The negative connotation to the concept of greed in many cultures is congruent with a negative moral judgment.
In Federation society there is a big difference in how Humans, for example, associate wealth in their lives and how Ferengi associate wealth in our lives. To Humans wealth makes for a better life, but to a Ferengi, the degree to which your life is good is directly proportional to the amount of wealth you have.
Ferengi culture has evolved for over 10,000 years with greed as a central tenet of our culture, and the concept of greed has become the holy lifestyle in Ferengi culture that consumes our mind, body, and soul. To a Ferengi, greed shapes our behavior and beliefs towards the endless effort to satisfy needs without ever reaching satisfaction. Unlike most Federation species, the amount of wealth accumulated by a Ferengi isn't simply a matter of higher social status; in Ferengi culture our wealth represents how we measure each others moral status.
To those species who seek personal profit and/or gain in Delta Rising based on their old moral interpretation of greed, you can choose to keep clicking GREED in STFs misguided by the belief we still live in the old Dilithium economy. But the truth is, that trash loot is no longer just a pile of pack consuming rubbish, because each useless white and green item looted in game represents your next sale in the righteous Ferengi pursuit of higher moral status. Every time a Ferengi clicks NEED in a STF - that Ferengi takes another step up the stairway toward heaven.
I do realize that the more learned among the younger species will recognize that the future has arrived, and it is time to embrace the Ferengi definition of greed by discarding the negative stereotype. The wiser among those younger species will choose to embrace the wisdom that older species in the Galaxy have long understood; that clicking NEED in STFs is the path of the older, wiser races that pursue higher moral status through prosperity. There is a reason you have never heard a Vulcan suggest "Live long and be poor."
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For these and other Ferengi perspectives on economic perspectives related to Star Trek Online while we wait for the glorious chance of wealth these lock box release days bring, check out Rules of Acquisition at the Priority One Podcast website. Greed is Eternal, blessed are those who buy ZEN so I can play a wealthy Ferengi for free, and long live those wise Ferengi who profit during lock box release events!
The human definition of greed only partially describes what greed truly means to a Ferengi. Most species define greed as a psychological concept describing those with an inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs. They tend to associate greed as a pathological behavior in an obsessive or compulsive context, and many species popularized greed into a negative stereotype of a person with a mentally unstable condition. The negative connotation to the concept of greed in many cultures is congruent with a negative moral judgment.
In Federation society there is a big difference in how Humans, for example, associate wealth in their lives and how Ferengi associate wealth in our lives. To Humans wealth makes for a better life, but to a Ferengi, the degree to which your life is good is directly proportional to the amount of wealth you have.
Ferengi culture has evolved for over 10,000 years with greed as a central tenet of our culture, and the concept of greed has become the holy lifestyle in Ferengi culture that consumes our mind, body, and soul. To a Ferengi, greed shapes our behavior and beliefs towards the endless effort to satisfy needs without ever reaching satisfaction. Unlike most Federation species, the amount of wealth accumulated by a Ferengi isn't simply a matter of higher social status; in Ferengi culture our wealth represents how we measure each others moral status.
To those species who seek personal profit and/or gain in Delta Rising based on their old moral interpretation of greed, you can choose to keep clicking GREED in STFs misguided by the belief we still live in the old Dilithium economy. But the truth is, that trash loot is no longer just a pile of pack consuming rubbish, because each useless white and green item looted in game represents your next sale in the righteous Ferengi pursuit of higher moral status. Every time a Ferengi clicks NEED in a STF - that Ferengi takes another step up the stairway toward heaven.
I do realize that the more learned among the younger species will recognize that the future has arrived, and it is time to embrace the Ferengi definition of greed by discarding the negative stereotype. The wiser among those younger species will choose to embrace the wisdom that older species in the Galaxy have long understood; that clicking NEED in STFs is the path of the older, wiser races that pursue higher moral status through prosperity. There is a reason you have never heard a Vulcan suggest "Live long and be poor."
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For these and other Ferengi perspectives on economic perspectives related to Star Trek Online while we wait for the glorious chance of wealth these lock box release days bring, check out Rules of Acquisition at the Priority One Podcast website. Greed is Eternal, blessed are those who buy ZEN so I can play a wealthy Ferengi for free, and long live those wise Ferengi who profit during lock box release events!
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The point of this observation is that those who are true to their own ways are, after a fashion, trustworthy. This Ferengi appears trustworthy...