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Greed is a desire to obtain more money, wealth or material possessions than one needs. Greed is listed as one of the Christian seven deadly sins, usually by the synonym of avarice. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary logo Wiktionary is a sister project to Wikipedia intended to be a free wiki dictionary (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ... Money Money is any marketable good or token used by a society as a store of value, a medium of exchange, and a unit of account. ... Wealth usually refers to money and property. ... The seven deadly sins, also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins, suggest a classification of vices and were enumerated in their present form by Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century. ... Greed is a desire to obtain more money or material possessions or bodily satisfaction than one is considered to need. ...

Greedy individuals are often believed to be harmful to society as their motives often appear to disregard the welfare of others: if one person is to increase in wealth, somebody else must be decreasing in wealth (assuming, of course, that a market economy is a zero sum game). However, greed has become more acceptable (and the word less frequent) in Western culture, where the desire to acquire wealth is an important part of capitalism. A market economy is an economy in which goods and services are traded, with the price at which goods and services are exchanged being determined by trades that occur as a result of sellers asking prices matching buyers bid prices. ... Zero-sum describes a situation in which a participants gain (or loss) is exactly balanced by the losses (or gains) of the other participant(s). ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Capitalism The page is about the economic system. ...

When greed entails the covetousness of another person's possessions the term envy is used. When greed is applied to the subject of the excessive consumption of food or drink the term gluttony is often used, another of the Catholic seven deadly sins. See Envy (band) for the Japanese hardcore band. ... The word drink is primarily a verb, meaning to ingest liquids. ... Gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins. ...

Buddhists believe greed is based on incorrectly connecting material wealth with happiness. This is caused by a deluded view that exaggerates the positive aspects of an object. A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by...

See also

• Miser
• Mammon

Ebenezer Scrooge encounters Ignorance and Want in A Christmas Carol Miser is the term for a person who is reluctant to spend money, usually for the point where he or she forgoes even basic comforts. ... Mammon, a word of Aramaic origin, means riches, but has an unclear etymology; scholars have suggested connections with a word meaning entrusted, or with the Hebrew word matmon, meaning treasure. It is also used in Hebrew as a word for money - ממון. The Greek word for Mammon, mamonas, occurs in the...

External Links

• A Buddhist View on Attachment