Greed
Greed
represents a large and increasing part of our culture in the well off
countries. Most of us seem to want more. Advertising is the driving
force that increases this trend for consumers to want more of
everything. Advertising is the tool used by corporations to increase
our desires and their sales and profits. The quality and ethics used in
their marketing gauges the company's greed and need to win. As it does
with governments who increase revenues in ways harmful to their people.
Greed
Defined
Greed is a desire to
obtain more money or material possessions or bodily satisfaction than
one is considered to need. A more religious term for greed is avarice,
which is listed as one of the Catholic Seven Deadly Sins.
Greedy individuals are
often believed to be harmful to society as their motives often appear
to disregard the welfare of others: if one person is to increase in
wealth, somebody else must be decreasing in wealth (assuming, of
course, that a market economy is a zero sum game). However, greed has
become more acceptable (and the word less frequent) in Western culture,
where the desire to acquire wealth is an important part of capitalism.
When greed is applied to
the subject of the excessive consumption of food or drink the term
gluttony is often used, another of the Seven Deadly Sins.
Buddhists believe greed
is based on incorrectly connecting material wealth with happiness. This
is caused by a deluded view that exaggerates the positive aspects of an
object.
Greed Defined is
licensed under the GNU
Free Documentation License. It uses material from the
Wikipedia article Greed
"We
don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale
down our wants. Not wanting something is
as good as possessing it." - Donald Horban
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