Most people simply can’t fathom how much wealth, is represented by those that have a net worth of a two hundred million dollars or more – and further to the point, why anyone would ever need such a staggering massive amount of wealth to begin with. Yet, the lust for money, is something that seems to be on the rise; even though we live in a society in which seemingly never have so many had so excessive much, in regards to housing, vehicles, toys, leisure time, and so on and so forth. This would seem to indicate then that no matter how much a given person has, or how much a given person desires, there seems to be for a huge swath of people, an enduring desire to have even more.
The thing about greed is it seems to represent for so many people that are caught up within that greed cycle, something that never seems to be satiated. That isn’t too surprising, in consideration that envy and a near-constant desire to compare oneself to others, seems to motivate those that are enthralled to greed, to get ever more, even when in all sensibility, they already have far more than enough to last them, forever.
It seems to be that the driving force behind greed, consists of two basic things, of which, the first one is the ever constant fear of losing what a given greedy person already has – such as their status, their wealth, their respect, and their security. The other thing that drives greed is the basic knowledge that the more that one has, typically represents also the more power, or potential power that a person has, as well. So too, for those that are greedy and have thus achieved a certain status of having made their mark in society; the very fact that they have these things has marketable value to other people that don’t have such – therefore these other people without such accouterments thus have a strong desire to service those that have -- in order for them to get something of real value in return.
It would be one thing if greed, was something more akin to someone simply having the desire to do extremely well; but in reality, greed, has a strong tendency to take people that may be initially of good character, and turned them inside out; so that, for these people, they thus desire to have what they must have, no matter the cost or the discarding of morals, involved. This then is the crux of the problem for those that are greedy, for in their lust to fulfill what they must have and in their inability to never be satisfied, all sorts of ills and troubles are thus created and foisted upon society, at large. Further, those that are greedy, are seemingly not ever secure, for they fear, for instance, of being exposed for who they really are, and therefore of suffering the penalty for such – which makes them uneasy, and thus encourages them all the more to get even more of what they already have so as to enhance and to thus, they believe, lock down their elite place, securely.