What is your definition of greed?

Answer 1

Thinking only for yourself and never for others.

Answer 2

It's one of the seven deadly sins. It's something that falls back on us. When we do something wrong it will catch up with us.

Greed is called a selfish desire to obtain money, wealth, material possessions or any other entity more than one legitimately needs.

Greed is listed as one of the Catholic seven deadly sins, usually by the synonym of avarice. A basic desire to increase one's wealth is generally considered acceptable in Western culture, and simple want is not considered greed. Instead, most believe that there are varying degrees to the pursuit of material wealth, with greed being the most extreme form, with one desiring things simply for the purpose of having them.

Greed may entail acquiring material possessions at the expense of another person's welfare (for example, a father buying himself a new car rather than fix the roof of his family's home) or otherwise reflect flawed priorities.

Answer 3

My definition of 'greed' is those people that have more money than they will spend in 10 life times, and in Congress give themselves a raise when they want to. And they give themselves another retirement pension that is not based on Social Security. But, they do not want to see the minimun wage increased! A loaf of bread still costs each of us the same!

Answer 4

There are infinite measures of greed. Measures that have fashioned man and countries. it has become the reason for wars on earth and supposed resting places in the afterlife.

For me , greed is ultimately the pushing of man by his fellow man into positions of endless toil and work for the least amount of renumeration. It is measured by the token pay of bare subsistence.
For what end?- savings and profits

Savings to keep the corporate machinery going at the least amount of cost. To maintain this, a small number of men (middle or low rung managers) are tempted with promises of extra money (bonuses, pay increases) to push his fellow man who constitute the worker category, deeper into injurious repetitve work with pay as low as they can get away with, to maintain the "corporate savings".

That is one of my definitions of greed.

Answer 5

All of the following poeple pritty much summed it up for me:

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Read what all of them said, and it pritty much sums up my feelings of how I define GREED (well leave out the "sin" thing, I'd say the same thing without the religous refferences).
;-)

::: Peace :::

Answer 6

When you have what you need, but always want what others have, and what you dont need.

Answer 7

There is no such animal. If you have it to spend, then dammit spend it!