There is this one time at the camp...

Just saw this on CNN yesterday (or ROBtv?), Merrill Lynch is holding a boot camp for people in their twenties. No no, not the band camp, not the boy scout.

These twenty something must have personal investable assets over $50 million US, they will spend 1 week at Wharton School of Business to learn how to manage/diversify/balance their investment portfolios (I thought that is my job?), how to ask for a large loan, how to write up a prenuptial agreement (!?!)...

Of course, there were only about 3 dozen people there, but if you think about it, that is at $1.8 billion in that lecture hall.

Personal wealth is deemed quite important in this materialistic world, but how wealthy is considered wealthy enough? If you ask anyone who is rich if he/she thinks he/she is rich enough? The answer is probably going to be no, greed is at play here. And greed is what drives the world, or at least, the business world.

As Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street" said the best:

"The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that: Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right; greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms, greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge — has marked the upward surge of mankind and greed,..."