Greed

Tara Flores

Instructor Bailey

Engl. 98, 8 a.m.

Final Essay

12/5/13

What is Greed About?

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am. Richard Hammond

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am. Richard Hammond

Greed is a highly desire to gain riches, goods, or objects of abstract value and the intentions is to retain it for one’s self. This desire goes far beyond then the needs, basic survival, and comfort. Greed has a few other denominations, which are Avarice, Cupidity, or Covetousness. There are different kinds of appearances of greed that takes place. In today’s world, we optically discern greed all over the world through the cyber world and media, we additionally optically discern it through personal experience and we think nothing of it because we do not fully understand what greed is; however way we opt to perceive it though, greed is a component of the seven deadly sins and is very perilous.

According to Enrich Fromm, he described greed as “a bottomless pit, which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.”. What Erich Fromm meant by this is that people can be greedy and get what ever they want but the thing they got that they thought they be happy with will dissipate in then air because now they want something else. Its like a full cycle of:

It could apply to the need to feel more excessively moral, social, or better then someone else because they have more or better things then the other person.

Greed’s appearances include scavenging and hoarding, theft and robbery – especially by means of ferocity, fraudulence, and manipulation of authority, dishonest and depravity. The reason these appearances are because of the fact that the possessions of things have control over us instead of us controlling our...