There is an observation common in all countries that when money enters, promises and friendships leave. People think this is because of greed but we should look more closely at what greed is. It is not acquisitive of money just for the money. If that were so most rich people would just enjoy their money but thousands of rich families around the world vie for power in governments and it in that which actually gives us a better description of greed.
Greed occurs because money, wealth of any kind in fact, infers upon the wealthy a power over the imaginations and sometimes the lives of other people. Greed becomes a way in which individuals and families can make themselves bigger in society, set themselves apart through education and culture and ownership to such a degree that they are then able to ‘look down’ upon other people. This is pure animal behaviour.
Greed carries with it the huge deception that power itself makes one super-human, that to sign laws which affect millions can make one more worthy than other people. In fact what happens to the rich is that their greed longs for money with power.
In this way power is given to those without the ethical stamina to control it and instead they are controlled by it.
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