In 1894, the Hopi Nation petitioned the federal government to stave off allotment. Naturally, Indigenous nations opposed allotment. Instead, it made the Indigenous people even more powerless. He justified it by saying “there is no selfishness” in the Indigenous people and “no enterprise to make your home any better than that of your neighbors.”ĭunbar-Ortiz writes that the allotment of Indigenous land didn’t succeed in inculcating selfishness. Senator Dawes wrote an act in 1887 for allotment of this land. Tribal nations held land collectively, much to the dismay of Senator Henry Dawes. In the book “ An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States” by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, we see that Indigenous people had a thriving civilization prior to settler colonizers arriving at the continent. They lived with a communal reverence for their land and nature. Prior to having large swathes of their land plundered and people massacred by white settlers, indigenous tribes thrived in the land of modern day United States. The most significant instances of a greed-free society are indigenous populations around the world, such as Indigenous Americans. However, there exist instances from history which suggest that greed isn’t as inherent as one may think. All this is in the middle of a pandemic that has ravaged their workers. When Earth wasn’t enough, their eyes turned toward outer space. This is most notable in the U.S., the country with the most billionaires. It could be argued that this concept of greed has been the driving force for the billionaire class. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.”
As an extension of the Darwinian notion of evolution, Richard Dawkins argues in his book, “The Selfish Gene,” that the selfishness displayed by our genes mirrors “selfishness in individual behavior.” Ivan Fredrick Boesky, a fraudulent American stock trader, said in a commencement speech at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, “I think greed is healthy. Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution has served as the justification for greed being natural and even good. The likes of Plato considered greed to be human nature.