What's the difference between need vs greed?

Question

Who do you personaly know that is greedy?
Describe them.

Answer 1

The difference is mostly in the eye of the beholder. There are hundreds of millions of people who live below the poverty line set by the UN of $2 a day so no one can really claim that more that is needed to stay alive. But people judge what need is by what the see around them so few if any Americans would not say that people with less than the poverty level of $10000 a year or about 25 dollars a day that the government uses, are not in need.
The people who I think are greedy are people who have more than those around them but are unwilling to share any of what the have, even with their own children. I think it is a personality defect that causes them to look to material goods for security instead of people and loved ones, so they never have enough.

Answer 2

A need is basically definied as anything that you need in order to live comfortably. For example, the needs include water, house/shelter, food, groceries, gas, clothes etc. And greed is basically anything that you dont need, but want it for no reason, yet you could still live without it. You could also call it a "want" since in economics, there are two kinds of things: Needs and Wants. I already defined what a Need is, but a Want, is anything that you want to posses for societal purposes, or is anything that you could survive without it. For example, if u have a pair of jeans and you wear them, they fulfil the purpose of covering your body or whatever. However, if u wanna buy a particular brand of jeans e.g Levis which, say, costs $100, and u want it...now thats a want. Since the point is that you could still go out and survive with your regular jeans, but a 100 dollar one attracts you towards itself and other customers like you, and in fact both fulfil the purpose of being a Jeans. So yeah, thas basically it.

Answer 3

I used to know someone. He was fat with a limp from a motorbke accident, claiming incapacity benefit fro that and running an antiques market stall in Bermondsey at the same time. He was rude, arrogant, self-delusional, ignorant, base and even the housing association refused to deal with him since he had a secure tennancy and could not easily be evicted. He terrorized the house he lived cause he did not want to share his living space, it was a housing co-op after all, you ALWAYS share houses in housing co-op. He bullied me out of the house and i reported him to the fraud squad in the end.
The difference between need and greed is self-control.

Answer 4

Greed is a person who is never satisfied with what they have and they are often unscrupulous to get more. I have seen a lot of women who were given a nice diamond as an engagement ring and off they run to trade it in for a bigger more expenisve ring. I have seen people lose it all trying to get more... Like the people on Deal Or No Deal.. LOL

Answer 5

I think need somthing that is needed to live.

A greedy person goes over that, to the extreme and beyond want. This is someone who aquires MUCH MORE than is needed to live, with little concern for how others are effected.

Answer 6

1st question. Example: FOOD.
Greed=Fat
Need=Dead.
2nd question: People who are filthy rich, but still can't get enough, i know of two personally, but there are hundreds i know of. The problem is description enough, although the best word i could probably use to describe is "addict".