Question about the greedy rich...?

Question

I see many people on here refer to the greedy rich.

How rich do you have to be to be considered greedy?

I'm not looking for answers about how Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are greedy (although you must realize that they have both given tens of billions of dollars to charity). They are on top of the spectrum. I am looking for the cutoff.

My question is how much net worth (or income if you prefer) makes a person greedy?

Pfo - doesn't it also in large part have to do with what you do with it if you have it?

Answer 1

I don't think any dollar amount makes a person greedy.
It's just a denigrating term, like neo-con & libtard, only a little more subtle.

Answer 2

In the U. S., you actually can't be greedy and rich at the same time. In our current tax structure, the top 3% pay 60% of the tax revenue. It then can't be said that they are being greedy, even if they don't contribute another dime to charity. Greed comes into play more for power than finance. Like the greedy politicians who want to spend money we don't have on pork for their own gain and no actual real benefit.

Answer 3

Greed is not directly related to wealth.
A person is greedy if they desire more than they need. The real issue is, what does a person need?

For example, if you only need 2000 calories a day to live and maintain a healthy weight and you eat 4000 calories a day you would be a glutton, or someone greedy for food. You would also increase your weight until your body used as many calories as you consume.

This is kind of like water finding its own level.

Now suppose you like to eat caviar and do not like beans and rice. You can eat 2000 calories of beans and rice or 2000 calories of caviar. You eat 2000 calories of caviar. A person eating beans and rice might say you were greedy for caviar because they think beans and rice is "normal" where you think caviar is normal.

To make it simple, "greed" is really an arrogant opinion based on what someone else thinks you should have instead of you having what you want.

Answer 4

It isn't a matter of how rich that makes you greedy. I know tons of greedy poor. It is an attitude of how stingy you are with your money. Many rich people are genourous and have a good attitude of managing their money. When people hord their money and have no compassion to help someone in need because they are concerned about having their money accumulated they are greedy rich. They are also greedy rich when they will do anything to get money no matter how unscrupulous it is.
Greedy poor act like everybody owes them. They waste their money on stupid things and then cry they are so poor they don't have money to feed their kids. In the mean time they could have used the $50.00 they spent on drugs or junk to clutter their house
on food for their kids. Instead they expect everybody else to bail them out.

Answer 5

Since we all want more, greed seems to be a matter of balance.
If the act of you getting more, causes someone else to get less then might be considered minimum, then you could probably be considered greedy. On the flip side, if you get more and more just because you have the smarts or are in the right place or whatever and no one suffers, it's pretty hard to consider you greedy. (just someone to be envied)

Answer 6

Its none sense to say because your rich .your greedy..In fact as a person on the left in politics ..the most greedy I have met are people who subscribe to my politics.. meaning they expect others to set examples but are unwilling to set example themselves...
Greed is what is one's heart..not in one's bank account !

Answer 7

Income or net worth does not determine greed. Warping government policy to give oneself unfair advantage or exemptions is greedy.

Answer 8

Having wealth doesn't make you greedy, it is the love of money that is defined as a sin. Greed being one of the 7 deadly sins defined in the Bible.

Answer 9

Well, the Democrats (Pelosi) seem to think it is at an annual $500,000 income.

Until you reach that ($499,999) you are part of the envious poor or middle class.

Answer 10

Not the amount of money they have, but how they act with it. The ultra rich disturb me, but not as much as the 75,000 to 100,000 dollar a year range. Alto of these people are new rich and they think they're such hot* because they have a little swag.

My answer is the classless idiots who can make 75,000 to 100,000.