What is greed?
People always show a feeling of wanting everything their way, as to wanting something. Like everything else there are always limits to things. That is where greed comes in, it is wanting something over the limits. Greed has two meanings in the dictionary. “First it is the excessive desire to acquire or posses more than one needs or deserves.” Second, “ it is the insatiable desire for wealth.” (http://www.audioenglish.org/dictionary/greed.htm) Greed; five letters that can mean a whole world.
Greed is a desire of wanting more than what
you need. In the popular children's story "Dicken's A Christmas
Carol" it is shown that greed is a bad thing. Also that being greedy is
unkind. Greed can be seen in many aspects not only money. It’s given more
importance when it’s about money, because it has more consequences. Since it is
mostly seen that greed is a problem that involves the desire of wanting money,
each day more people become part of this problem.
Even if it is only one
person or a group of people it still counts as greed. Companies and individuals
put their desire for money and possessions ahead of the needs of others. They
care more about themselves and getting what they want forgetting what surrounds
them. For example dishonest banks give mortgages to people that clearly can't
afford to make money. For doing this people lose their homes because
foreclosure.
Greed is basically wanting something over
everything and not caring how and who it can affect. This behavior is going to
be presented in humanity no matter what, there are always going to be greedy
people. It is a never ending cycle that can be reduced."Greed is a
bottomless pit which exhaust the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need
without ever reaching satisfaction", Enrich Fronm.
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