Well Rajesh, I would still say I didn't assume a side to it, all I am saying is it certainly is more subjective than it looks :)

I didn’t say that desire or greed is a bad thing. My tone might have indicated that, but basically you assumed it was bad.

There are two sides to every coin.

That’s perhaps one way of looking at it. In a black and white world where we are labeling something as greed/desire I agree this perfectly balances the thought. I would certainly side by the thought that there can be a multitude of things which can inspire people right from passion, zeal, the spirit, the sense of achievement, the fulfilment and they can be considered Desire if one wants. But it does take the shine out of it.

And as for domination is concerned, I am afraid that I have a complete opposite view. I think it is a very short lived emotion, the feel of dominating people or the feel of power has a very low standing compared to responsibility and ownership. Domination alone has never worked in the world, even hitler had a very short success range with that domination if he is considered the best example in that front! I don't think there is enough motivation in trying to put people down. That way one never grows beyond his/her limitations and ends up making his world much smaller. He may end up feeling happy and probably even motivated to a certain extent but certainly a very shortlived way to go ahead!

No. Greed & desire is all. We want to connect with other people because that makes us happy. We want to be creative because it makes us happy. We want to see someone smile because it makes us happy. Even the so called ‘social workers’ do it because they get fulfillment by contributing towards causes.

I am not saying all this is wrong, but I am just observing the world truthfully, without the colored glasses of ‘goodness’, ‘selfless’, etc.

I left another important point – we want to dominate everyone and everything around us. That is another important human motivator, though we don’t always get to do it.

Perhaps! But I think we are also motivated by the desire to connect to people, of fulfillment, of creativity, the delight in seeing someone smile… There are plenty of things that can get us inspired at any moment of time.

I do agree the role of $, greed as motivators, but the question is – Is that all? And if the answer is YES, are we not missing a few things? Or are we not acknowledging a few! ?!

Aah, haven’t heard of him.. Will check it out. Thank you for the referral :)