Gecko's speech calls to the individual's civil duty, rationale, and power. He grabs hold of the stockholders--or, "the people"--by dividing them from the not-so good bureaucrats. There is a need to evolve, to let nature take its course, to let the people rise and overthrow all the useless vice presidents. These bureaucrats are screwing over the people, evident in the gap between salaries and wealth.
This can be paralleled with Plato's Republic...the ruling class (or in this case, the bureaucrats) should know what's morally right for the company. Unfortunately, they don't--they are not well suited for the good of the company. Gecko argues that the bureaucrats are wrong and that, with time, evolution will take its course. The current ruling class will fall to the will of the people/stockholders (Marxism, anyone?) and all will be well.
Like Longinus, Gecko believed in a sort of subliminal state...and that state could be reached through greed. Greed is, as told through Gecko's speech, the upward surge of mankind. It "is good" and it "captures the evolutionary spirit." Greed is a pathway towards goodness, towards perfection, towards the sublime for us all.
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